[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act.

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.