Quotes by Nick Denton

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An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

College

Decision

Party

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

Beautiful

Book

Iphone

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 you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: ‘We don’t know if this is true or not.

Helping

Stories

Trying

Ben Smith’s quick-hit campaign ‘scoops’ are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

Campaigns

Cat

Video

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 can buy out Gawker and Jezebel for the key fall TV season. On any individual day, there isn’t room for both of them; and that’s healthy.

Depressing

Fall

Moving

Forget about someone’s resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn’t lie.

Forget

Lying

Party

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 with simpler headlines. Deadspin’s headline was 118 characters. Vital information – ‘hoax’ – was one of the words that was cut off.

Character

Cutting

Google

Google demotes search results that don’t get clicked on.

Google

Results

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 best target. Try Huffpo – or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

Ideas

Modern Journalism

Soul

I don’t really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

Character

Mind

Monsters

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Aggressive

Apps

Bars

Beautiful

Believe

Blogs

Book

Campaigns

Cat

Character

Collaboration

College

Company

Cutting

Cynical

Decision

Depressing

Distinction

Europe

Fall

Forget

Google

Gossip

Helping

Ideas

Interesting

Iphone

Jonah

Journalism

Kind

Limited Resources

Lying

Makers

Media

Mediums

Mind

Modern Journalism

Monsters

Moving

Needs

Opinion

Order

Organization

Party

People

Pieces

Relentless

Responsibility

Results

Should

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Quotes by Nick Denton

Nick Denton

An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

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 you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: ‘We don’t know if this is true or not.

Ben Smith’s quick-hit campaign ‘scoops’ are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

Forget about someone’s resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn’t lie.

Google demotes search results that don’t get clicked on.

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 best target. Try Huffpo – or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

I don’t really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

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