Here’s the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. Kara Swisher Read Quote
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo’s record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune – a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch. Kara Swisher Read Quote
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow. Kara Swisher Read Quote
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the ‘Washington Post.’ Kara Swisher Read Quote
I don’t have bad taste; I have no taste. I wear a lot of the things I wore in high school, but not the cowl-neck sweaters. I was never tall, and I am the same size, so I still wear a lot of those clothes. Kara Swisher Read Quote
It’s the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you’re able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do. Kara Swisher Read Quote
People are worried about what’s going to happen to journalism – and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that. Kara Swisher Read Quote
I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about. Kara Swisher Read Quote
