Google doesn't really forget.

Cute. I’m on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking.

Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

The term ‘cyberutopian’ tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online.

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.

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.’

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