Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

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

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.

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

I've been on, like, the forefront of social media. I run all my own pages, and this is back to MySpace and answering my own emails in, like, 2006. Even before that, I always had websites with emails that dropped directly to me.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

Prior to the online platform, I had to make sure I go around and have conversations and go to schools and make appearances. But now with online presence, I try to put out videos and different posts every day. I try to inspire.

Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I've connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.

The online thing has been really big for us: the YouTube videos, the MySpace.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

Every brand has something on the Internet, whether it's video or doing something on social media. It's just another form that brands are starting to realize they have to be a part of.

People really don't watch TV no more - it's all about social media. I think it's a great platform for showing off your brand, who you are, interacting with fans, interacting with people in general.

It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Social media is a really cool way to tell your story to people who are interested in hearing it. It's not getting put through the filter of a television executive who's decided you're too old to justify the expenditure.

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

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.

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

I don't really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses.

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

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