"I don’t know why. It’s not that I want to forget. I can’t and won’t. It’s not that it’s too painful. It was more painful then, though I will say that all this 9/11 talk is giving me a renewed if slight sense of dread. It’s not even that I think media have been too exploitive. In fact, I’m shocked they haven’t been far more exploitive.

I guess it’s that life isn’t defined by a day, no matter how momentous."

"Politicians and media companies are coming at these questions at the wrong starting line: as if we go to the internet to take a piece of private information and squirrel it away there. That’s not what we’re doing. We’re sharing."

Smart words from Jeff Jarvis about what The Guardian could do to survive.

"The best solution is to be yourself. If that makes you uneasy, talk with your shrink. Better yet, blog about it."

"Wonderful possibilities await—if you believe that the person next to you isn’t a distractable dolt but instead someone with unmet potential. There’s the real argument, my friends. And you are my friends, for remember that I’m the one who respects you."

"In the midst of the Egyptian revolution, I realized that many of us in the West—and I include myself squarely in this—act under the assumption that progress in digital democracy would come here first, because our technology and our democracies are more advanced. Then it became clear to me that such advances would come instead where they are most needed: in the Middle East."

"We find the publics we wish to join based not merely on gross labels, generalizations, and borders drawn about us—red v. blue, black v. white, nation v. nation—but instead on our ideas, interests, and needs: cancer survivors, libertarians, Deadheads, vegetarians, single moms, geeks, even privacy advocates. We finally tear down the elite of the public few and each become public people in our own right. . . ."

Jeff Jarvis' thoughts on Wikileaks and the cables they released.

Jeff Jarvis' thoughts on what Google should do about businesses that purposefully game search rankings by accumulating negative reviews that link to their site.

Jeff Jarvis nails the issue with NPR forbidding its staff from attending the Stewart and Colbert rallies in D.C. at the end of October.

"Here I’m interested in hearing why you are public when you are and what you get out of it. I’d like to hear what else you would like people, companies, and governments to make public and how that would bring benefit."

"It is in this very context that I raise the spectre of police stopping citizens on the street to demand identification for reasons that cannot always be predicted and protected against. It has happened before."

"At the start of the evening, Künast says that “freedom can comprise anonymity.” Yes, but freedom also comprises publicness. Publicness may be our highest right of freedom — to stand up and say what we think and be who we are and join together and act without fear of oppression."

"Do it, Howard. Leave old technology. Build the next medium, our medium. To hell with all the old media companies that have screwed you and us all these years. This is real freedom."

"If you decide not to bother, if you opt out of using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, et al, then there’s now an opportunity cost: you miss making connections that have personal or economic value. That’s why people quite willingly give up what we used to think of as privacy: because it’s worth it to them. These are the new economics of privacy."

Maybe Google isn't as well-meaning as we think.

Jeff Jarvis believes magazines are in deeper trouble than they may think. There are options though.

Jeff Jarvis critiques the recent Wall Street Journal article about cookies and news sites.

"The problem is going to be that there is only more competition in content and so trying to suddenly charge more flies in the face of basic economics."

"But this is often the case with technology and privacy. Technology spawns fears — and worries these advocates — because it introduces change and it’s really change that they fear."

Jeff Jarvis' thoughts on Google's letter to the FTC.

"Provenance is no longer merely the nicety of artists, academics, and wine makers. It is an ethic we expect."

There is a distinct difference between the publics you create for yourself and the mass, wide open public of everyone. Facebook needs to recognize this.

"That is to say, Google doesn’t touch — nor should it want or need to — the fourth and vital leg to sustainable business models for news: cost."

There's an opportunity for Facebook, or another startup, to seize the role of the clearinghouse for online identity.

Jeff Jarvis' notes from his TEDxNYed talk on the irrelevancy of the current education model.

Jeff Jarvis' outline of a Bill of Rights for activity in cyberspace. A solid foundation that would provide for free and open future interactions.

What does serendipity mean for us on the web and how can it be measured so that a service can provide it?