HW 14 Interview with Nick Denton

To summarize the “Take an Obsession, Then feed it” , an interview on Nick Denton, he pretty much talked a lot about the topics of blogging that we have been going over in class. Specifically he talks about how people are losing their interests in newspapers and now looking for the top stories on blogs. Also, a point of his that I thought was interesting was when he talks about hiring an unknown writer for his blog sites rather than hiring someone with records in media. For example he says “ So when looking for new writers , we don’t look for resumes, and we don’t look for great clips, which are often less a guide to somebody’s writing ability then they are a guide to the editorial ability of the person whose been line- editing them”. In other words I think that what he is trying to say is that it’s hard going from being a journalist and trying to write on blogs because it is two totally different styles of writing. Although it is true that people say blogs represent more of an evolution than a revolution Denton states that “Sometimes an evolutionary process can be dramatic enough that it has the effect of a revolution”.