You Have To Pay Attention To Money,

Obscurity Is A Far Greater Threat To Authors And Creative Artists Than Piracy.

Think Of How Wikipedia Works, How Amazon Harnesses User Annotation On Its Site, The Way Photo-sharing Sites Like Flickr Are Bleeding Out Into Other Applications. We're Entering An Era In Which Software Learns From Its Users And All Of The Users Are Connected.

Empowerment Of Individuals Is A Key Part Of What Makes Open Source Work, Since In The End, Innovations Tend To Come From Small Groups, Not From Large, Structured Efforts.

When You Have To Prove The Value Of Your Ideas By Persuading Other People To Pay For Them, It Clears Out An Awful Lot Of Woolly Thinking.

A Key Function Of A Publishing Brand Is The Bestowal Of Status By Who And What You Pay Attention To.