The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.

In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

We thought that the Internet was going to connect us all together. As a young geek in rural Maine, I got excited about the Internet because it seemed that I could be connected to the world. What it's looking like increasingly is that the Web is connecting us back to ourselves.