I believe the internet could prove to be as momentous an invention, as profound a platform. This is why we must protect the net from the control of governments and corporations – especially because they are the objects of the disruption technology enables. Only if it remains as open as the printing press for anyone – no, everyone – to use can the net.

I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can’t use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us.

Just as our kids don’t understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

I hate baseball. It’s dull. Nothing happens. It’s like watching grass – no, Astroturf – grow.

Do what you do best, and link to the rest.

gossip stopped being mere gossip and became an industry.

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.