47 Quotes by Nick Denton

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

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

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor – with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind.

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.

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

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

Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.