Blogs Quotes

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I`m a normal person. Just because I`m in the spotlight doesn`t mean I`m God`s gift to the world. I`m learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

“When my brother passed it was toward the end of an era. If it had happened much later, it would have been on a lot of f**king blogs. The amount of information flying back and forth now has just gone beyond comprehension... In some ways it’s hard to swallow. It makes you feel sick about yourself and about human beings. You look at yourself and say, ‘When have I exploited others and been voyeuristic?’ The thing we should be discussing in the news, what the media should be going after in a heartless way, isn’t the family of somebody who has passed away, but instead - oh, I don’t know - how about a president who’s lying? That’s not to say my brother’s life didn’t have value, but it certainly did not deserve to be covered more than world politics and other important issues, particularly when death happens every day to millions of people all over the world and we don’t seem to give a f**k about that.”

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That`s why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.

I`m not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

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

(From blogs to frogs, school librarians are working to make sure every student succeeds.) If the classroom is the first stop in the learning experience, the library should be the next destination, ... School libraries are more important today than ever before.

I would guess that at the very least that all blogs that are affiliated with an organization are going to be edited, if they`re not already.

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.

Blogs are for anoraks who couldn`t get published any other way.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that`s clearly a vanity phenomenon.

But it shows some of the hunger there is for user expression and interest in the most popular of the blogs, in sharing and reading.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Blogs are a real force, ... They`re not just for geeks anymore.