HW:14 Denton Interview, Concise and to the Point!

To put it bluntly, I really enjoyed reading, “Take an Obsession, Then Feed It!” the Nick Denton interview (Kline and Bustein). Despite the fact that the interview was really short, I liked it because it was to the point and kept my attention. For instance when Denton was asked why he claims “[he’s] not really sure there’s a real business in blogging – or at least [he’s] not really sure how big a business it will be yet [he’s] a blog entrepreneur”, he simply answers, “I don’t see why that’s controversial”. Regardless of how blunt he answers the hard interview questions, when he does answer these questions they make sense. For example when Denton was asked why he hires unknown writers for his blog sites he makes the reader realize that hiring unknown writers is the only way to go. That is, he explains how un-experienced writers want to write more, they are, “hungrier” (Kline and Burstein 152) to write for him. After all, he informs the reader that established journalists don’t do well writing blogs because it’s a different format (Kline and Burstein 152). Likewise he explains that bloggers don’t make very good journalists either…It’s not an easy transition. (Kline and Burstein 152). As a result of reading Dentons Interview, I learned that he is a very “to the point person”, and I really enjoyed reading his responses from the questions.