Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

* - sharing

Two things have to happen for someone to be famous:

When a profession has been created as a result of some scarcity, as with librarians or TV programmers, the professionals are often the last ones to see it when that scarcity goes away. It's easier to understand that you face competition than obsolescence.

The costs incurred by creating a new group or joining an existing one have collapsed, not just in money but in time, effort and attention.

Revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies - it happens when society adopts new behaviors.

In the blog world there are no authorities, only masses, and yet the accumulated weight of attention continues to create the kind of imbalances we associate with traditional media.

Filter-then-publish rested on a scarcity of media that is a thing of the past. The only working system is publish-then-filter.

People like to consume media, but they also like to produce it ("Look what I made!") and share it ("Look what I found!").

No effort at creating group value can be successful without some form of governance. People are basically good, when they are in circumstances that reward goodness while restraining impulses to defect.