I always found tech parties as a way for me to gauge how I’m doing on my projects. I read my Twitter posts from last year. I was meeting people for the first time I’d never met before. I MET KEVIN ROSE—all caps. That kind of crap. And I look back to this year, it’s so much different. Everyone that I talk to knows who I am … It’s a totally different landscape. So that’s how I judge how I’m doing. In Web 2.0 not everyone that’s successful makes money.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 321