"The discovery process is remarkably social, and the social interactions come in amazingly diverse forms....People who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly."

"Chris Poole - founder of anonymous image sharing den 4chan - gave us a rousing and principled picture of what the big players get wrong about online identity."

"I've got no larger point here, other than that this yet another reminder (at least for me) that we should be suspicious of large points, especially when it comes to the web. Like everything else, the internet remains a flurry of contradictions. It makes us stupider and smarter."

"And yet, while the Web has enabled new forms of collective action, it has also enabled new kinds of collective stupidity. Groupthink is now more widespread, as we cope with the excess of available information by outsourcing our beliefs to celebrities, pundits and Facebook friends. Instead of thinking for ourselves, we simply cite what's already been cited."

"This is what is becoming in the world: the acceptance, only, of lived experience. I did not hear it if it did not scrobble, I did not see it if it’s not on Flickr, I did not say it if it is unpublished. Without Foursquare, I am not even there."

"Once it is not everything, it can be merely something."

This is an illusory solution. It’s a false idol. It’s contributing to noise pollution on the Internet

"...it’s clear that serious cognitive advantages accrue to those who are best at thinking alongside machines." from Wired.

from Wikipedia.

In less than 20 years, the Internet has transformed the way we shop, socialize, and communicate. What’s next? from McKinsey & Company.

"I don’t know about you, but a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me."

Spending hours on the net isn't only changing the way we work, shop and socialise. A leading neurologist says it is subtly re-wiring the way we think and behave – often for the better.

key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream. from wired.

What the Internet is doing to our brains. from the atlantic.

a wide variety of digital, mobile and participatory media projects are allowing groups of engaged users to grapple with important issues.

from Six Revisions.

new media and brain plasticity. from seed.

by nigel shadbolt and tim berners-lee. from scientific american.

online access to scientific journals can be a mixed blessing. from nature news.

fiber-optic submarine cable systems.

the 2038 bug. from readwriteweb.