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As the internet emancipated authorship, people began sharing what they saw, felt, or thought. This seemed likely to create only cacophony. And indeed, noise surged when everyone posted anything. But no one really consumes it all—a mechanism of collective filtering emerged.

Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution

The music industry is still reeling from the discovery that the reproduction and distribution of music, previously a valuable service, is now something their customers can do for themselves.

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Every day we open up Twitter and can plausibly expect for some gem to show up, like Kevin Kwok on Figma, or Turner Novak on Pinduoduo, and expect to read them for free. In certain slices of the new knowledge economy, particularly in financial analysis or in business strategy, you can get a mediocre product for a price, but the very best products... See more

Alex Danco • Homesteading the Twittersphere

We might also be heading toward something like Posting Zero, a point at which normal people—the unprofessionalized, uncommodified, unrefined masses—stop sharing things on social media as they tire of the noise, the friction, and the exposure. Posting Zero would mean the end of social media as it was once conceptualized, as a real-time record of the... See more

A public service Web invites us to imagine services that don’t exist now, because they are not commercially viable, but perhaps should exist for our benefit, for the benefit of citizens in a democracy. We’ve seen a wave of innovation around tools that entertain us and capture our attention for resale to advertisers, but much less innovation around

Ethan Zuckerman • Building a More Honest Internet - Columbia Journalism Review

The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.

Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality

In the media landscape, abundance has already occurred: an abundance of information. Therefore, in a web environment it is first and foremost media organisations that suffer. In conditions of abundance, information loses its value and the old media establishment, which obtained its authority by supplying information, loses power and ground.

Andrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship

in terms of depth and breadth.

Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they... See more