“A study published by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University last year analyzed 56 million messages from Sina Weibo. That study revealed that the location a person posts from can affect the chances of that post being censored. Approximately half of all posts from Tibet and the neighboring region of Qinghai that used known sensitive words were deleted, while just over 12 percent of posts from Beijing and Shanghai using terms from the list were censored.”

“How will our new participatory web culture transform the environments in which we live, and how long will artists be to critique the way their work now dwells in commercial-media-spaces like Tumblr? When will we ever know the true “social and psychic consequences” of annihilating space and time with constant technological innovation — and if artists can sniff out these consequences subliminally, at what point will it be too late?”

“That’s the paradox of failure: while the human impulse is to evade it, the only way to improve is to learn from our experiences and the experiences of others. We share as a way to understand, but even more importantly, we share in order to move the conversation forward.”

“Tumblr isn’t a private space. Like so much of the internet, it can often feel like one, a place where you dream up your own cozy little world, but it’s not. And this is where things get complicated, because when you’re scrapbooking, you’re not obligated to note who made that picture you just tore out of that magazine.”

“Stats are woven into the fabric of the web and, tied as they are to the business prospects of many of our favorite service providers, the metrics aren’t going away anytime soon. If anything, we’ll probably see more attempts at the “gamification” techniques meant to encourage this behavior, like the addictive buttons and animated feedback that liking and reblogging currently feature”