Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.