Jason Calacanis Quotes

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

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

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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.

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

I like my iPad very much. I like to browse online shops and keep up to date with the world, so I carry it with me a lot.

Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.

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

When I'm not acting, you'll probably either find me playing a game or working on my YouTube channel.

With Facebook's IPO, the world learned a new way of organizing businesses around one overriding imperative: to ship new products quickly.

I love everyone on 'Silicon Valley.'

We're understandably worried that staring at screens all day, and blogging about our breakfasts, is turning America into a nation of narcissists. But the opposite might be true.

I wanted to learn how to blog, so I was playing around with Wordpress and Typepad and Blogger, starting all these different blogs just to learn how these things work. I had a fake Sergey Brin blog, an anonymous, fake Ph.D kind of blog. I did it for, like, I don't know, six weeks, and the Steve Jobs one just caught on.

'Black Mirror,' now being on Netflix, can reach all kinds of different people all over the world - with the help of the Internet, rather ironically.

I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.

For blogs today, it's really about content creation and partnering with a brand. You can get the news in so many forms and so many places. A tweet now is enough to tell you about a story. People don't have to click to go to your site.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

It's easier to get funding for a gas station than to start the next Facebook or Twitter in the Mideast.

I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.

I never started doing the videos because I thought they were going to get millions of views. I started doing them because I was at home, and I was bored.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

When I grew up, there was no TV, nothing. The guitar could be my whole life. The kids today have Internet and TV and games and all that stuff.

Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc. I reserve the annual trend for people with genuine psychic ability and/or bloggers.