A biography for Ethan Zuckermanhasn’t been written yet.
“Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.”
“The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.”
“There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.”
“The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.”
“Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.”
“On Twitter, if you want to quote someone else, you say, 'RT, re-tweet, that person's name, and then what they said before.' And it's a way of essentially saying, 'I'm not saying this, but my friend said this and I thought this was interesting.'”
“Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.”
“Now if you're using Twitter or other social networks, and you didn't realize this was a space with a lot of Brazilians in it, you're like most of us. Because what happens on a social network is you interact with the people that you have chosen to interact with.”
“If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.”
“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.”
“It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.”
“When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.”
“Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.”
“Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.”
“Creativity is an import-export business.”
“It's my fond hope that social networks such as Facebook will help users broaden their perspectives by listening to a different set of people than they encounter in their daily life. But I fear services such as Facebook may be turning us into imaginary cosmopolitans.”
“The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.”
“The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.”
“People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.”
“Google doesn't really forget.”