Jason Calacanis Quotes

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.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.

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

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

It's really cool now that we have Twitter and Facebook, and it's cool that people can post their thoughts and stories and just constantly on their timelines.

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

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.

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

I'm a sucker for Thought Catalog. Shelby Fero is really funny on Twitter. And Patton Oswalt, he's sort of like a Twitter throb.

Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.

When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

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

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.

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

I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

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

I started hearing people say, 'There's a blog about your hair, and there are all of these Tumblr accounts.' I'm like, 'What's Tumblr?' I'm pretty mystified by it, because I look around, and a lot of people have great hair.

I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

When I have something to say or share with my viewers, I turn to my blog, and even then, I make it clear that it is my take on certain events.