I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.