Nick Denton Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.”

“Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.”

“The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.”

“Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.”

“While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.”

“I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like.”

“As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'”

“I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.”

“I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.”

“I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.”