Laurie R. King Quotes

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I read more bloggers now than mainstream columnists, because they've got more interesting things to say.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

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.

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

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

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.

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

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

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.

I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.

I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. While publishers still do love the novel and people do still like to sink into one, the very quick form is appealing because of the pace of life.

What I get to do is have fun in my house, by myself, and put it on the Internet.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

I'm excited to launch 'Waveform,' which will explore everything from tech news and new products to the videos that surround them.

My oldest grew up on Disney, but my youngest is all about Snapchat and YouTube.

More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers.

I read blogs quite a bit.