Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.

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.

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

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.