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I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?

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So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
I don’t think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.
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Network Social Thinking
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn’t sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.
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Distribute Mean Say Sound
We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn’t really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren’t as interested in that.
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People Running Technology
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
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Meditative Purposes Problem Purpose Running
When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There’s no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Design Perfect
You can be hyperconnected, then you can take a break for a couple days and it’s fine.
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Break Couple Days Hyperconnected
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.
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Bird Ideas Moving
In any leadership position, you’re always going to be disappointing somebody.
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Disappointing Leader Position
Willingness to take risks is the path to success.
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Path Risk Success Willingness
If you make the opportunity. you’ll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
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Advantage Firsts Opportunity

I think that’s a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go?

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