People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

Creativity is an import-export business.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.