Blogs Quotes

• The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

  Jason Calacanis

  Blogging, Authenticity, Currency

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• A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

  Robert Breault

  Purpose, Bottles, Messages

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• Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

  Hanna Rosin

  Hard Times, Ideas, Culture

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.

  Michael Hyatt

  Attention, Social Media, Headlines

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• No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.

  Chris Brogan

  Real, Media, Marketing

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• You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

  Seth

  Writing, Commitment, Hard

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• Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Internet, Magnetic

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• A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

  Michael Connelly

  Community, Tents, Newspapers

  "New novel revisits old character". Interview with Chris Talbott, www.postandcourier.com. July 10, 2009.

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• One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

  Seth Godin

  Voice, Vocabulary, People

  "Inside Seth Godin's Blogging Philosophy". Interview with Josh Bernoff, adage.com. July 13, 2009.

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• You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Mind, Would Be, Diaries

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• When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that?

  Christina Aguilera

  Firsts

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• People can be anonymous when they go on blogs and say crazy things that they would never have the courage to say to your face.

  John Leguizamo

  Crazy, People, Goes On

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

  Mickey Kaus

  Writing, Thinking, Development

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• I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Mtv, Film, This Is Me

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

  Jaron Lanier

  Communication, Practice, Vapid

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• I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.

  Jaron Lanier

  News Stories, Class, Quirky

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

  Adele

  Filling Up, Hatred, Magazines

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• I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Dinosaurs, Blogging

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• I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.

  Tim Ferriss

  People, Marketing, Fans

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• I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, Reading, Bigger

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• I don't know how it happened, but everyone thinks I'm this crazy b***h. Maybe because I don't have eyebrows. A lot of bands talk s**t about me and I post a blog calling them out. F**k them. The future is bright pink so put on some sunglasses, b****es.

  Jeffree Star

  Crazy, Thinking, Eyebrows

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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• I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  People, Done, Tweet

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• The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

  Nick Cave

  Stars, Rocks, Tragedy

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• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  Iain Banks

  Cutting, Trying, Hitting

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