Paul Allen Quotes

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

My Twitter feed is probably my biggest resource of news. Other people scour the web so I do not have to, and I thank them for it.

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'

If a website has something I should know, somebody is spinning it around Twitter and I'll see it there. Before I would look at Huffington Post and Slate every day, now I follow them on Twitter.

I read the Drudge Report! And wander around Facebook sometimes!

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

The minute you hear the word 'share,' you start thinking Twitter and Facebook. These are the places that people can very quickly share something they've just discovered.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

I check out my MySpace. I'll go on sites to see what's funny on YouTube.

One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers in the world right now are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram.

Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.

Our go-to source is no longer dictated by a small group of cable news outlets. We have to expand our view. Sometimes, a story is made and breaks on Twitter. We have to find a way to react to that, to consume and also disseminate the information from Twitter, which is not an easy thing to do.

Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net.