Jacob Weisberg Quotes

I was on the Internet a lot during my teenage years, and I think the influence of that kind of textuality on my writing has been pretty significant.

I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it.

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.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

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

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 Internet is a sketch show.

For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

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.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

I don't read much of anything online.

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.