- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
How we put our collective talents to work is a social issue, not solely a personal one.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's long-form journalism or investigative journalism, it's no fun to just be the guy diagnosing the problem.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up with a name that rhymes with turkey - and jerky - was no great fun. But, as an adult, I tell you, being globally unique in the age of Google can be extremely helpful.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More interesting than thinking about what's possible in 10 years is thinking what's possible now but that no one has built.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.
- Environmental Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020