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. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
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.’ Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
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. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
When you look at the ‘New York Times,’ you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we’ve invaded. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine. Ethan Zuckerman Read Quote
