There's a lot of social input when you put these things out there. People's ideas cross with other people's thoughts.
Biz StoneI'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.
Biz StoneI never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
Biz StoneYou have to think for an email. What's the subject? What's it about? It takes two seconds to think about that. So you have to think, Is this a work thing or a social thing? Which? Then you get into a situation that you don't want to be in, because then people are thinking about it too much.
Biz StoneWhen you think of a social network, you have these two-way interactions: "Are you my friend? Yes? No? Yes?" Like LinkedIn, it's business oriented, but it's all about establishing connections. You connect to me through my other connections, and that sort of thing, and you sort of define who your friends are. Twitter doesn't have that.
Biz StoneI think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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