You can’t pick up the telephone and say, ‘Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.’ Howard Rheingold Read Quote
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
It’s more important to me to get an e-mail that says, ‘I saw your page and it changed my life,’ than how many hits the page got. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it’s a temptation and a pathology; for others, it’s a lifeline. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it’s going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
A phone tree isn’t an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of the firm nor the incentives of the marketplace as we’ve known them. Howard Rheingold Read Quote
People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, ‘Oh you must be from California.’ Of course, people in California think, ‘Oh you must be from from Mars,’ so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with. Howard Rheingold Read Quote