Luvvie Ajayi 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.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

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

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily. If you think about it, even ten years ago or twenty years ago, there was a middle man, there was a publisher, there were studios, there was this world of rejection letters. Now, we're in a place where we have the technology and the ability to go shoot our own movies or to put stuff on YouTube or a blog, if you're a writer, or self-publish.

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.

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

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.

One of the amazing things about the Internet is that the content creators are the gatekeepers. We can think of an idea and execute it quickly, and we didn't have to pitch the idea to a major network or convince a studio head to sign-off on the concept.

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.

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.

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

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.

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

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

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

I had a personal blog, but why does anyone care that I went shopping for hats?