70 Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

Talking about ‘stopping globalization’ is unrealistic – and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

I’m not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars – if something doesn’t get onto my Google Calendar, I don’t show up for it.

There’s no locality on the web – every market is a global market.

It’s fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that’s unprecedented.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we’re usually filtering it out.

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

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, ‘RT, re-tweet, that person’s name, and then what they said before.’ And it’s a way of essentially saying, ‘I’m not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.’

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.