Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

Think about spam filters; if email didn't come from someone that someone you know knows, that's an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just don't. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming – not producing, not sharing – and we should say, ‘No.’

We use the word ‘organization’ to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

The Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody.

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn’t clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Until recently, ‘the news’ has meant to different things – events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user’s identity to the identity of the group.

It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.

How we treat one another matters, and not just in a “it’s nice to be nice” kind of way: our behavior contributes to an environment that encourages some opportunities and hinders others.