American - Businessman | March 31, 1972 -
I had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.
Evan Williams
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Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
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I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.
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I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.
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People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.
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Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.
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My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top.
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Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.
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I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.
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My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.
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In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.
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While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
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