Browsing Topic Best Blogging Quotes

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

Content is anything that adds value to the reader’s life.

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.

Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

Don’t fool yourself that you’re blogging when you’re really just putting stuff up online.

The first thing you learn when you’re blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you’ve got to get to the point, you can’t waste people’s time, you’ve got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham – being called to something that he didn’t know how to get to.

I began [blogging] because I have this handicap – I can’t figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, 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.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking – it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

I like how blogging emulates fandom because it’s so completist and spontaneous. It really mirrors the way people listen to music, and I like that fluidity with online content.

Customers can’t always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what’s wrong.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I read so much, I could hardly remember any of it. People would ask me what good books I’d read recently, or what I thought of a particular book, and my mind would go blank. At the same time, I’d just heard of blogging and found the idea interesting and thought I’d give it a try.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.

So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this – the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.

If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn’t educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more – and giving them extra credit besides.

A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there’s no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.

I believe that this notion of self-publishing, which is what Blogger and blogging are really about, is the next big wave of human communication. The last big wave was Web activity. Before that one it was e-mail. Instant messaging was an extension of e-mail, real-time e-mail.

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).

Social media is not a fad because it’s human.

Blogging is best learned by blogging…and by reading other bloggers.

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

When a guest blogger can’t even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they’re pretty much admitting ‘I don’t care about this post, and I don’t want to be associated with it’. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.