Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

I know everyone says attention spans are shorter now, and if you can't get them in the first 20 seconds, you lost them. But I honestly believe if you give someone something worth slowing down to really pay attention to, they will.

Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people who have short attention spans. They're only a click away from a picture of a funny cat, so you have to make your thing more compelling than that cat. And that can be a high bar.

The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town.

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

I saw podcast sites with all these fancy graphics. People don't care about that. They sign up for what I do.

When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people kept reminding me that once people have bought a book, they're in. You don't have to be selling them on every page.

The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

Realtime ads are the perfect way for an advertiser to connect with users in a social environment.

The only thing that matters on Imgur is the quality of the content.

Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

We never want the audience to get bored.

I think giving great content out to people is critical, and exclusive, cool content they've never seen before is the best way to go.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.