Mary Pilon Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

Bloggers are not reporters.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

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

I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

I wasn't always a Twitter devotee. During the 2012 campaign, the first during which Twitter was widely used by journalists and campaign aides, I became something of a scold to younger reporters who I thought misused the medium.

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

A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

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.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

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.

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

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

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

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.