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

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

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

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.

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

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.

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