I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

What is it about sex? Is it the sensations, or is it the meanings and the communication game that's tied into that.

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

Finding a name for something is a way of conjuring its existence, of making it possible for people to see a pattern where they didn't see anything before.