Ann Voskamp Quotes

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

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.

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

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

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

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

Microsoft runs the world's biggest blogging platform, MSN Spaces.

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.

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

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

Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

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

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

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.

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

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.