When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

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

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.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.