Jared Polis Quotes

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

When I started my first blog years ago, I just wanted to share my perspective. For a long time, models had been these mute pretty faces - and I wanted to have a voice.

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.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

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.

I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.

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

Comments are my main way to communicate with you bros.

I blog because I have something to say.

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

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

The keyboard is my journal.

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

I learned that every conversation shouldn't be had via social media.

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.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

I don't mind Twitter. I think it's a lot of nonsense, but at least, to me, Twitter is just more of a public forum to have conversation.

Blogging, I love you no matter how out of fashion you are.

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

I actually love Twitter, but I don't ... I never know what to ... I get a lot of my news from Twitter. But, I never ... I sometimes just don't think ... I think Twitter is full of a lot of talkers and not many listeners, so I'm happy to be one of the listeners.