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There is no news industry.
It's not a revolution if nobody loses
Collaboration is not an absolute good.
Curation comes up when search stops working.
Publishing isn't a job anymore. It's a button.
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
The loss of control you fear is already in the past.
Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
When we change the way we communicate, we change society.
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.
We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.
There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
When you adopt a tool you adopt the management philosophy embedded in that tool.
Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
When you got a cell phone you stopped making plans. 'I'll call you when I get there.'
Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it.
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.
If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.
If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.
One of the best ways to know you're completely wrong, is to behave as if you're complete right.
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.
Even with the sacred printing press, we got erotic novels 150 years before we got scientific journals.
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.
A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.
What you need for a participatory system to work: "a plausible promise, an effective tool, and an acceptable bargain."