"So, memo to journo-bloggers: Less talk, more walk. Build something or STFU. When that urge to run to Wordpress so you can tell us your thoughts on paid content or aggregation or community strikes you, stop yourself and spend that time actually creating something that does what you say."

There are 5 beachheads that must be established in order to successfully reinvent media. Attacking everything head-on is a recipe for disaster and will allow outside groups the ability to innovate and supplant incumbents.

In other words, you aren't going to create the innovative journalism company of the next 10 years by finding additional sources. You'll do it through reinventing the consumption experience, finding new ways to engage users, and curating the really valuable content.

"More than any other technical design or social institution, the railway stands for modernity. No competing form of transport, no subsequent technological innovation, no other industry has wrought or facilitated change on the scale that has been brought about by the invention and adoption of the railway."

"They are the building blocks that create—and limit—the space of possibility for a specific problem. The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table."