"Network technologies do not eliminate intermediaries. They spawn them. Networks are a cradle for intermediaries." http://ping.fm/2yLLu

"Network technologies do not eliminate intermediaries. They spawn them. Networks are a cradle for intermediaries." http://ping.fm/2yLLu

What people do in interesting times shapes the future.

"every attempt at building dams and filters on the internet is seen as pollution by the volunteers." - JP Rangaswami http://ping.fm/FQZrS

“For information to have power, it needs to be held asymmetrically. Preferably very very asymmetrically." - @Jobsworth http://ping.fm/oYwjN

little children will think we grew up in some frightful Dark Age, maybe visualizing some mashup of post-apocolyptic and TV Land.

i'm gradually forgetting what vinyl LPs were, and how we loved them so much. FIVE entire songs on one side!

"the warriors would ride on in that darkness they'd become" - Cormac McCarthy

"most problems confronting a network can be solved later or by others." - Jonathan L. Zittrain http://ping.fm/dTRvD

"they had the most opaque obstacle in the world between them and the truth: money." - Paul Graham http://ping.fm/iivEm

reading Cindy Cohn's "A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal" for the @EFF. http://ping.fm/8V4Iy

“Success hides problems.” - @EdCatmull http://ping.fm/wqbUu

"enough of life thrives on subtle instantaneous responses that one-eighth of a second kills intimacy and spontaneity." http://ping.fm/iJ5qx

"Rough impersonal guesswork is tolerable. Totally personalized guesswork is not." - @DSearls http://ping.fm/2d0dp