Om Malik Quotes

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.

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

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.

Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

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.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

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 digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

I want to start a blog.

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.