“The medium is waiting for its Orson Welles.”
Time managing editor Richard Stengel, on why he’s creating an iPad edition of his magazine even though no one has any idea what it should look like, Digits, 25 March 2010
Month: March 2010
ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND SHOPPING
“Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page.”
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, denying that there’s any orchestration between his site’s angry-hipster-generated reviews and his salespeople, New York Times, 25 March 2010
BENGALI COLD FRONT
“Why stand at the far shore counting ripples when you can watch from the top of the wave? That seems easier.”
Newly hired VentureBeat executive editor Owen Thomas, doing his poor man’s Louis Rossetto while going on and on about his new job, VentureBeat, 24 March 2010
YOU’VE GOT FAIL
“AOL was so used to losing that they didn’t know what winning was.”
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, on the bunch of losers he encountered when he left Google for his new gig, Econsultancy, 23 March 2010
DON’T BE EMAIL
“I’m going to make a deliberate effort to respond as little as possible to outside work-related emails.”
Google Web-spam czar Matt Cutts, on his 30-day experiment in making the search engine even less human, MattCutts.com, 23 March 2010
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