“Jonah Peretti, the co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, has said in the past that he doesn't think unions are 'right' for the company.”— Tom Kludt, An Phung, cnn.com
“The final text clarifies that any link that contains more than "single words or very short extracts" from a news story must be licensed, with no exceptions for noncommercial users, nonprofit projects, or even personal websites with ads or other income sources, no matter how small.”— Cory Doctorow, eff.org
“What's throwing our industry for a loop is the complexity of putting messages out there in the world with all these new tools and all this new technology. The tools and technology are overwhelming. I think a search for simplicity and pure ideas is the only route back to making it more fun again. Mor…”— Lee Clow, adage.com
“YouTube announced they will stop recommending some conspiracy theories such as flat earth.I worked on the AI that promoted them by the *billions*.Here is why it’s a historic victory. Thread. 1/https://t.co/wJ1jbUcvJE”— Guillaume Chaslot, twitter.com
“For non-epicurean publications, opening a long-term, food-based brand extension might seem a bit unusual. Even for epicureans, a 38,000 square-foot food hall represents a daunting investment.”— Kayleigh Barber, foliomag.com
“They'll make it easy for anyone to create audio ads using Anchor's technology and build targeting tools similar to Facebook.”— Nathan Baschez, threadreaderapp.com
“They’re going to poison discourse on the internet by filling it with coherent nonsense. They’ll make it so there’s enough weird information that outweighs the good information that it damages the ability of real people to have real conversations.”— Jack Clark, theverge.com
“We are trying to develop more rigorous thinking here. We’re trying to build the road as we travel across it.”— Jack Clark, theguardian.com
“In the last three or four years, everyone kind of had this lightbulb moment which was, ‘Actually, what we should be doing is building companies on top of these platforms.’ Then there was a huge rush of capital to every product you could imagine for direct-to-consumer, and it was great. All the sudde…”— Andrew Dudum, digiday.com
“Another concern for some publishers is that they likely wouldn’t get access to subscriber data, including credit-card information and email addresses, the people said.”— Benjamin Mullin, Lukas I. Alpert and Tripp Mickle, wsj.com
“Just like Instagram has ruined nature, people talking to each other at parties, and the battery life on your smartphone, it's ruining Burning Man, and the people who organize the event would love it if the influencers could cut it out, please.”— Elizabeth Logan, wmagazine.com
“Reddit has received a $150 million investment from Tencent, the Chinese tech giant behind WeChat and League of Legends, sparking fears of censorship from Reddit users. The investment was first rumored last week, and led to Reddit users posting photos and memes banned in China in protest of Tencent’s…”— Shannon Liao, theverge.com
“Advertising can augment a publisher, but it’s hard to believe it can support one, even one expressly built for the Internet. That is now the realm of Aggregators.”— Ben Thompson, stratechery.com
“I think we’re in the phase of learning what the paywall means and what works and what we need to do. This is a year about learning about that. We’re not planning any editorial changes at the moment.”— Stella Bugbee, foliomag.com
“Time will tell if metered paywalls will help lead towards that growth.”— Laura Stampler, fortune.com
“Why hasn’t FuckJerry been effectively called out and held accountable for all of its scammy, exploitative behavior?”— Megh Wright, vulture.com
“Perhaps being a victim of privacy invasion will help Jeff Bezos realize the evils of what his company is enabling.”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.com
“These disturbing allegations only serve to highlight a startling lack of oversight on the part of YouTube, and they're a wake-up call to any parents who think they can trust the streaming network to provide safe entertainment for kids.”— Ashley Austrew, thestir.cafemom.com
“It’s maybe the worst feeling in the world to wake up and know you have an incredible job, but also know you’re not meant to be doing it.”— Erin La Rosa, erinlarosacreative.com