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Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.


Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.


Sometimes you need the things you didn't know you needed to know.


The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.


You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.


Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.


The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.


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.


When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.


When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.


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


People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.


If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?


I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.


I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.


Google doesn't really forget.


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


Creativity is an import-export business.


Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.


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.'