Ari Melber Quotes

The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.

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

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

Bloggers are not reporters.

Be true to your audience, or you will lose money.

Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

You cannot fool an audience.

You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.

In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some semblance of logic I think as an audience you'll buy it and as an actor, when it comes to playing things like that, it gives you something to delve into. When I don't buy into a comic scene is the type of scenario where you'd just go: "Well, that would never happen."

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Hopefully, you'll be able to find enough of an audience, each time, that you can keep working, rather than getting caught up in the Hollywood system, which can so quickly become about how much money something makes and how many people went to watch it. It's very alluring. It's such a powerful machine that's playing on you, the whole time.

So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

Juno: Honest to blog?

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

I have money, but my most important capital is the trust of the people.