All Nick Denton Quotes
- Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed. Ben
- I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism. Automate
- Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie. Blog
- Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind. Content
- We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion. Authentic
- Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. Ads
- Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul. Bad
- While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses, Been
- Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers — and at some point the distinction should become meaningless, Authors
- Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies. Apps
- Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection. Apple
- Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on. Clicked
- I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies. Always Liked
- Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company. Aggressive
- Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read. Exist
- Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work. Always Found
- That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about? Been
- As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog… Ask
- Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exclusive front-page sponsorships are not limitless. If HBO doesn't move quickly enough, Showtime… Advertising
- Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories… Character
- Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the… Aggregation
- I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the… American
- I think people are sort of waking up to it now, how probably the biggest change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or… Biggest
- An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions. College
- You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media… Advertiser