Ethan Zuckerman quotes:

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

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

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

Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

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

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

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

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

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.

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

People generally pay attention to what they already know about and what they care about.

The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.

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.

When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?"

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

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.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.

It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

The culture around here is much less cutthroat than it is in, say, Silicon Valley, or even within the non-profit culture in D.C..

I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

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

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.