Blogging Platforms Quotes

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

I was like, 'I want to start a blog to get my ideas out and keep my brain working so in five years I'm not an idiot.'

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

Be smart about selecting your micro niches for communicating in the blogosphere.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available.

I've blogged since 2001 and was first attracted to the medium by its wild-west aesthetic, if simply telling the truth that corporate media wasn't telling could be so rebellious as to be defined as 'wild west.'

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

I've been blogging since the 80s. Okay maybe not that long. But starting around 2004, I launched and abandoned many blogs, and would continue to do so over the next decade.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

I started my blog in 2002. That was pre-MySpace, pre-Facebook. That was back before newspapers realized they were going out of business. That was back when no one gave any credence to Internet writers.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

I read blogs quite a bit.

I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

It's not always easy for a mainstream organization to accept what a blog is.

I wanted to learn how to blog, so I was playing around with Wordpress and Typepad and Blogger, starting all these different blogs just to learn how these things work. I had a fake Sergey Brin blog, an anonymous, fake Ph.D kind of blog. I did it for, like, I don't know, six weeks, and the Steve Jobs one just caught on.