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You are not alone

Kurt Vonnegut:
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
This pretty much encapsulates for me why promoting the use of social media tools, that which helps people [...]

Where do people find the time?

Clay Shirky:
I was being interviewed by a TV producer to see whether I should be on their show, and she asked me, “What are you seeing out there that’s interesting?”
I started telling her about the Wikipedia article on Pluto. You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years [...]

Content < Conversation

Cory Doctorow:
Content isn’t king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you’d choose your friends — if you chose the movies, we’d call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory’s Wikipedia biog, link via @rooreynolds