“Me.dium transforms solitary web surfing into a social activity. I can see what sites my friends are on in real time, click over to that page, open a chat box with that friend, and start a IM conversation.

“..we should seriously consider public infrastructure as the backbone for social networking. Just as we have funded roads and airports, we need to provide safe and open platforms for online community forming.

“Web 2.0 is the messy way that the Semantic Web is actually happening.

“Zawinski’s law for the web: Every website expands until it becomes a social network. Websites that cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

“I would actually be more willing to type in my bank account password [into a facebook page] than my Google account password.

“Nihilism says, `Extreme positions are self-refuting.’

“No reasonably orthodox Christian believes in Aphrodite or the rest of the Olympian deities, or in Ganesh the Elephant God or the rest of the Hindu pantheon, or in the Japanese emperor, and so endlessly on.. anyone who sincerely believes in such deities is [considered] deluded and blasphemously in pursuit of “false gods”. The atheist adds just one more deity to the list of false gods..

“I welcome the attention that serious atheists like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris are offering the world at this moment through their books. They are bringing what I regard as a deserved criticism and a necessary correction to what Christianity has become in our generation.

“An animal’s behaviour tends to maximize the survival of the genes for that behaviour, whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing it.