The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.