Ezra Klein Quotes

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

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.

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.

As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy to compete against the thousands of amateur bloggers out there reporting and commenting on the same stories I do.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

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

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

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.

Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.