“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”

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

“We’re collectively living through 1500, when it’s easier to see what’s broken than what will replace it.”

“The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [...].”

“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.”

“[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.”

“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”