Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
Clay Shirky
Operationally, the transactions were fairly trivial.
You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for.
people good software
Anyone who has his e-mail client notify him anytime an e-mail comes in has already lost.
lost
We demonstrated the exchange of clinical information, by using a critical set of common, open technical standards.
information critical open common standards
When we change the way we communicate, we change society
society communication
Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
internet communication
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public.
privacy internet communication
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
communication entertainment
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
organization society communication
Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [..] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.
organization communication
[T]he category of 'consumer' is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity.
communication media
Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
organization internet communication media profession
organization responsibility
[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.
society internet responsibility
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
organization society
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