51 posts and columns on David Carr
When people talk to one another long enough, they want to meet, and when they’ve been in one another’s presence, they want to keep in touch.
– Clay Shirky, talking to David Carr about the “ingredients of communication” in the digital world
As the world has realigned from being about portals and then search and now social, how do you build a media company for a social world? And a big part of that is scoops and exclusives and original content, and it’s also about cute kittens in an entertaining cultural context.
– Jonah Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, in conversation with David Carr of the New York Times
The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational. It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.
– Yancey Strickler, a founder of Kickstarter, in an email — from an article by the New York Times’ David Carr about the dangers of SOPA
The ethic of the Web is to say what you know as quickly as you can, and then reiterate over and over again. The Web is kind of a self-cleaning oven, and what you have up there can grow more accurate as time goes by. That’s never true of print. It’s always there for the ages.
David Carr, to Terry Gross on “Fresh Air”
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