Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on. Nick Denton More Quotes by Nick Denton More Quotes From Nick Denton Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul. Nick Denton relentless cynical soul While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses. Nick Denton skeptical mediums blogs Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless. Nick Denton collaboration distinction should 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 the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like. Nick Denton media people thinking 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. Nick Denton depressing fall moving I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made. Nick Denton good you decision together Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about. Nick Denton talk ethics dangerous mean My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford. Nick Denton cool think journalism science I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least efficient way to climb, and also the most psychologically debilitating. Nick Denton climb never people way You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked. Nick Denton down like you media I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page. Nick Denton about talk thought regret The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web. Nick Denton push dreams intelligence time There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more in common than they wanted to admit. Each was the other's future. Radar served up the exclusives I always envied. Gawker was actually comfortable on the web, in the medium Radar should have made its own. Nick Denton own admit always future You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.' Nick Denton best you brain people The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. Nick Denton down lost conversation people The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites. Nick Denton comments history people interesting
