Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
-
Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
-
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.
-
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
-
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
-
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
-
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.
-
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
-
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.
-
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
-
The Internet is corporations all the way down.
-
Creativity is an import-export business.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
-
There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.
-
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
-
Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
-
Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.
-
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
-
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.