Ethan Zuckerman

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

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

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market. ”

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit. ”

Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with. ”

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart. ”

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries. ”

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. ”

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be. ”

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. ”