Mike McCue Quotes

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

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

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.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

Much is published, but little printed.

As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Newspapers are the engines that drive the Web.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

When people tell you Web content is better than television content, they probably don't mean that, they probably enjoy the format of the Web better than the format of TV.

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.

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.

There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

But the great thing, and the horrible thing about the web is you can just throw stuff up there and it doesn't cost anybody anything.

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.