The advent of the Internet has allowed people like myself to take an active role. The online broker and decreasing commission costs has been a major driver of that. Without the Internet I don't think my strategy would have changed, but through the Internet I have more research.

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other.

All of the media companies are interested in the Internet. They have to go where the advertiser dollars are going.

There was an unparalleled level of initial giving after the tsunami, and the Internet has made donations even easier. But the donations are only as valuable as their use: aid agencies need to be able to account for how efficiently and effectively they use donations, and for how timely their response is.

There are a lot of creeps on the Internet. There's just a certain amount of risk.

Two to three years ago there were early adopters gambling on the Internet, ... Today it's the mass market. The public wants to know that they're putting their money into something trustworthy.