Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

The Internet is corporations all the way down.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

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.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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.

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.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

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.

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

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.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

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.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

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.

Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal.

Creativity is an import-export business.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.