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" Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. "

Howard Rheingold

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" We think of them as mobile phones, but the personal computer, mobile phone and the Internet are merging into some new medium like the personal computer in the 1980s or the Internet in the 1990s. "

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" People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone with one thumb, for instance. "

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" By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. "

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" Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control. "

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" It's more important to me to get an e-mail that says, 'I saw your page and it changed my life,' than how many hits the page got. "

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" A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. "

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" Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows. "

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" The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you. "

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" The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control. "

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" Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them. "

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" Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. "

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" We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody. "

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" Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. "

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" The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it. "

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" Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. "

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" You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.' "

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" There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it. "

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" The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access. "

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" Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention. "

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" Young voters are crucial. The trend over recent years has been for them to drift away. So anything that gets young voters interested in the electoral process not only has an immediate effect, but has an effect for years and years. "

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" I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. "

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" Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them. "

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" Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin. "

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" Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention. "

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" Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience. "

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" The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. "

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" You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible. "

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" As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract hours from one's day. Certainly, it affords narcissism and distraction. "

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" People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone. "

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