Quote from The World Is Flat

"The act of participating is like a muscle you have to use, and we are so we are so unused to being active participants in the process that even though the tools are there now many people don't use them..." Micah Sifry.

The context of this quote was about the relative small number of people who upload. "Uploading is defined as the new found power of individuals to send up, out, or around their own products and ideas, often for free rather than passively downloading them..." writes book author Thomas L. Friedman.

Blogging is a form of uploading. Also open source software development. Actually, anything that involves producing content rather than simply consuming it.

It is an interesting book so far.