Nick Denton

“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.”

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

“While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.”

“Google demotes search results that don't get clicked on.”

“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.”

“Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.”

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

“Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.”

“Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'”

“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.”

“That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?”

“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.”

“It irritates me that everybody concentrates on Gawker, because it's just one of 15 sites and it doesn't even get the most traffic. It's a significant site, but it's not what we are.”

“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.'”

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

“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.”

“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.'”

“I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.”

“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.”