Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.

I've been writing a lot more, I believe, because of the Internet. I've been posting stuff that I've written and I've just been writing.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

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

My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.

Web 2.0 is a grand utopian movement. It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer. It suggests that everyone--even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us--can and should use digital media to express and realize themselves. Web 2.0 "empowers" our creativity, it "democratizes" media, it "levels the playing field" between experts and amateurs. The enemy of Web 2.0 is "elitist" traditional media.

I love participatory media, collective knowledge systems, user-generated content and the like, and spent much of my life and career participating in them and making them.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

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

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

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