Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That’s about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

African American

Population

Technology

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Communication

Firsts

Steps

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Confusing

Search Engine

World

Creativity is an import-export business.

Creativity

Imports

Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Bigs

Curator

Decision

Cute. I’m on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

Cute

Lists

Moving

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I’d never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I’m on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

Book

Sleep

Technology

I’m not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars – if something doesn’t get onto my Google Calendar, I don’t show up for it.

Calendars

Google

Lists

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.

Church

Diversity

School

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

Needs

People

Simple

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African American

Agreement

Attention

Average

Balance

Benefits

Bigs

Book

Cabins

Calendars

Calling

Censorship

Challenges

Church

Clicks

Common

Communication

Confusing

Corporations

Creative

Creativity

Culture

Curator

Cute

Decision

Diversity

Entrepreneur

Firsts

Google

Growing Up

Gun

Identity

Important

Imports

Information

Intelligent

Interesting

Internet

Levels

Listening

Lists

Locality

Mean

Media

Mobile Phones

Movement

Moving

Names

Needs

News

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Quotes by Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That’s about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Creativity is an import-export business.

Curators are great, but they’re inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

Cute. I’m on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

I’m not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars – if something doesn’t get onto my Google Calendar, I don’t show up for it.

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.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

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