"This may sound appealing, but it has a dark underside. The moment that we can easily display location-aware images on a blended-reality system, people will try to block any images they don't like. Forget ads: Some people will block even slightly suggestive images, or signs proclaiming religious beliefs that they oppose, or newspapers and magazines with arguments they don't like--anything that would upset their custom-built reality."

"Its successor, which I will call pseudo-modernism, makes th individual’s action th necessary condition of the cultural product... By definition, pseudo-modern cultural products cannot & do not exist unless th individual intervenes physically in them."

"walk outside your door and try to find a Twitter user... We could do great things if we weren't so segregated into a small group of people punch drunk on Kool Aid and a great deal of people who've never even heard of Kool Aid."

"you’re a cyberlibertarian because you’re from the American middle class. Everyone else hates you... You’re a pampered little cunt... Screen names are for people too chickenshit to use their real names... Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia."

"Smith-Lovin's research, for example, shows that homophily is on the rise in the United States on nearly every dimension of social identity. Ever larger numbers of people seem to be sealing themselves off in worlds where everyone thinks the way they do."

"In the days leading up to the October 3rd Day Against DRM, DefectiveByDesign member [sic] will be taking actions big and small all around the world to call attention to the dangers of DRM and products and media containing it."

"There is no more important cause for electronic freedoms and privacy than the call for action to stop DRM from crippling our digital future." No more important cause? DRM is usually vile but this is just plain silly.

"The blogosphere gathers together atypical fans and brings them together in what quickly becomes a broadband echo chamber. The louder and more intense the online community gets, the farther it's likely drifting from what is happening offline."

"It’s currently less important than the death of Pink Floyd guitarist Syd Barrett, or coverage of Zidane’s press coverage, but more important than Bob Novak and the big dig. Where we see a distressing lack of coverage most clearly is amongst political