Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

Welcome to freakdom, Dave. It’ll be time to start a Web site soon, where you’ll type out everything in one huge paragraph.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.