Nick Denton Quotes

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.

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

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 thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.

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

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

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.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

I started my blog as an online diary. I moved to New York for a job, and I kind of wanted to keep my pictures all in one place. Also, I just love style blogs and wanted to join in on the fun!

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

My partner, Jeff Ullrich, and I always thought Earwolf was going to be big. There were a couple of studies before we launched saying podcasts were going to really grow. But I remember so many conversations at the beginning where people would say, 'How are you going to make money with this?'

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

When you are just starting out with an online business, there's a good chance that you'll be making several mistakes. Because of the mistakes that can be made with starting an online business, many people decide to quit or think that online businesses are just a scam.

I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I had to. I had been trying to get a business started selling dating and life advice and was struggling.

I wanted to learn how to blog, so I was playing around with Wordpress and Typepad and Blogger, starting all these different blogs just to learn how these things work. I had a fake Sergey Brin blog, an anonymous, fake Ph.D kind of blog. I did it for, like, I don't know, six weeks, and the Steve Jobs one just caught on.