It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.
Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
I mostly read online - tech/VC blogs. I also enjoy the 'NY Times', 'Atlantic', 'New Yorker'.
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.
I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.
It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.
When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
I want to give myself options and maybe be able to work at ESPN, or do blogs at NBC or be a sports reporter.
In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs.
I used to go on all these blogs and all these websites which I really don't like to go and read about at all, and I couldn't care less anymore.
Digital activism did not spring immaculately out of Twitter and Facebook. It's been going on ever since blogs existed.
While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.
The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.
There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.
I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.
I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.
Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.
I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
One question that often comes up is why, in this age of blogs and tweets and instant digital communication of all kinds, it still takes so long to publish a book.
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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.
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.
Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
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.
Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is.
I live in a bubble. I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because, well I guess I'm afraid to.
I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.
Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
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.
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.
You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.
We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.
I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.
Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.
I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.
My family has had to move and change their name and have been subject to threats from right wing blogs calling for my son, for example, to be killed to get at me.
What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
Many news organizations have come to resemble the fact-starved blogs they once took pains to remain separate from.
I have an RSS reader, Feeddler. I mostly subscribe to board game blogs - they have reviews of new games and discussions about trends. It's straight-up dork talk.
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time.
One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!
I don't read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends' opinions, even though we all dress very differently.
I don't tend to write articles and blogs because, I think, if you went into the theatre knowing that this is the writer's view on x, y, and z, it's just game over for the play.
I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.
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