David Weinberger — American Author

David Weinberger is an American technologist, professional speaker, and commentator, probably best known as co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto. Weinberger's work focuses on how the Internet is changing human relationships, communication, and society... (wikipedia)

How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.
The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.
We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.