Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

The amount of writing that people do online is astonishing, and historically unprecedented.

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed is more important than content. Whoever gets a review out first becomes the authority.

The more channels putting money into quality programming the better.

I read blogs quite a bit.

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

I want to start a blog.

I think with most things online, if you treat your audience like friends instead of like Impressions and Clickthrough Percentages and Returns On Investment, then you're off to a great start.

We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

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.

There's something to be said about content living on a channel forever.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

My dream is to build a tech company that helps people discover content.

While there are certainly food-focused content out there on the Web and on TV, most of this content need to weave through many layers of editing before it reaches the viewer.

My philosophy is very simple. I want my fans to come to theatres and watch my films and enjoy. I ensure that they get their money's worth.

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.

Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use standards in posting snippets from news articles on its site.

A lot of the content that goes directly to the internet, or is web-created content, is very hand-held video where you can watch this woman fall off the coffee table, or see a funny little gag, or is interview-style stuff, which is great. I love that. I consume it like crazy. But, this is designed to be reminiscent of what you would see during primetime, and reminiscent of what you would see in a movie theater, on any given weekend, and in that regard, it's brand new.

My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.