Posted on August 15, 2011 by CJ Article Team

Here are a bunch of very insightful quotes about blogging that will give you plenty of food for thought next time you write a blog post…

A blog is what all “websites wanted to be” updated on a regular basis, contains content that is of interest to a select or target audience and is easy to update and change. ~ Unknown

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. ~ Adam Rickett

Blogging is the new poetry. ~ Unknown

I sincerely believe blogging can save America. ~ John Jay Hooker

Blogging is a conversation not a code. ~ Mike Butcher

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media. ~ Garrett M. Graff

A blog is in many ways a continuing conversation. ~ Andrew Sullivan

Breathe. Know that the Internet has no eraser. ~ Liz Strauss

The fact of the matter is, if you can start up a local blog about the independent hip-hop scene in Seattle or the financial side of the restaurant business or the intersection of immigration and entrepreneurship, you’ve got a far better shot at becoming a leader in your field. ~ Rand Fishkin

Blogging is a communications mechanism handed to us by the long tail of the Internet. ~ Tom Foremski

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops. ~ Jeremy Schoemaker

I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket. ~ Darren Rowse

Readers subscribe to blogs when they provide an informational or entertainment value so great that it would be a loss to not subscribe to it. ~ Maki

A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list. ~ Unknown

I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task. ~ Scott Adams

All you future Google Whores might want to pay attention to what I’m about to reveal. ~ John Chow

And it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing – writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. ~ Simon Dumenco

I think it is equally tiresome and useless to argue about whether blogs are journalism, for journalism is not limited by the tool or medium or person used in the act. ~ Unknown

When it comes to building your business, there are 4 words that should be echoing in your mind throughout the day; they are Do it Now. ~ QuadsZilla

The heart and soul of blogging is the individual and/or the group of individuals opining on the fly and responding post-haste to one and all. ~ Michael Conniff

I am, in full disclosure, a member of the Media Elite. I’m a Conde Nast editor, run a glossy mainstream magazine, spent much of my career at The Economist and consort with known journalists. But nothing annoys me more than the oft-heard assertion within media circles that without us blogs would be nothing. ~ Chris Anderson

A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. ~ Darren Rowse

Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.~ Brian Clark

Your blog is your unedited version of yourself. ~ Lorelle

OK, I’m starting a blog. Why shouldn’t an officer of a public company start a blog? Hey, life is short. At some point, take RegFD to its logical extreme, and this is how we’re all going to be communicating anyways. Think about it. ~ Jonathan Schwartz

The personal nature of the blog is what they find appealing. ~ Ethan G. Salwen

People have often described me as a blogger. I generally shy away from the term because, to me, bloggers are boring, self obsessed narcissists who use their website mainly as a means to discuss the inconsequential minutiae of their day to day lives. ~ Anonymous writer

The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful. ~ Ron Dawson

In China, blogs enable millions of citizens to express their opinions with reduced political risk simply because of the sheer number of like-minded opinions online. Facing these independent voices, the old ideological machine starts to crumble. ~ Xiao Qiang

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. ~ Steve Pavlina

The casual conversational tone of a blog is what makes it particularly dangerous. ~ Daniel B. Beaulieu

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust… you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it’s so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say. ~ Jason Calacanis

I guess my point is, if you’re one of these people considering giving up on blogging in exchange for paying more attention to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace, or whatever they throw at us mere mortals, bear in mind you are giving up on something rather unique and wonderful. ~ Hugh Macleod

Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for – connecting and interacting. ~ George Siemens

When I started writing this blog more than 3 years ago, it was in response to traditional media’s habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create. ~ Mark Cuban

Blogging is an art, same as any other method of self-expression. Some are better at it than others. ~ Hugh MacCleod

I’ve developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my 28x a daily ego search over at Technorati. ~ Jason Calacanis

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

The heart of blogging is linking…linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating – the purpose of the Internet. ~ George Siemens

The Lazysphere – a working definition – is a group of bloggers who I won’t name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another “me too” blog post. ~ Steve Rubel

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. ~ Blogger

While some bloggers in networks are making pennies per the hour the network CEO’s and support staff are raking in huge salaries and getting VC Money to help furnish their homes. I don’t like it. It smells funny. ~ David Krug

Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘blog’ is a fool’s errand. ~ Michael Conniff

Game changing innovations are few and far between. They are usually simple concepts to describe but when they arrive it takes time to fully realize their importance and impact. Television was a game-changer, mobile phones were a game-changer, and blogging is also one.” ~ Collis Ta’eed

One critical consideration when launching a blog is what you are going to call it. ~ Chris Garrett

The bottom line is that blogging is like sex. You can’t fake it. You can’t fake passion. You can’t fake wanting to engage with the public. If you do, it will ultimately be an unsatisfying experience for both the blogger and their readers. ~ Kevin Anderson

Bottomline of a successful blog is what else but solid contents. ~ Partha Bhattacharya

It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. ~Steve Pavlina

I read blogs every day, for all sorts of reasons, but I turn to blogs especially when I want to hear alternative viewpoints – for example, information on a particular medical treatment from the viewpoint of patients receiving it, rather than doctors administering it; reports from the battlefield seen through the eyes of soldiers rather than politicians; thoughts on a particular technology from the standpoint of engineers rather than executives. ~ Jim Buckmaster

The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world. ~ Unknown

Blogs can help bring humanity back into the workplace. We have become so concerned with communicating numbers and processes that employees have forgotten how to build relationships. How can companies ask employees to provide superior service and innovative thinking when everything they see and hear flies in the face of that? Blogs help create a culture that supports those behaviors. ~ Michael Wiley

In truth, the real opportunities for building authority and buzz through social media have only just begun. You simply have to look and see where things are going instead of where they’ve been. ~ Brian Clark

Blogging is not rocket science, it’s about being yourself, and putting what you have into it. ~ Unknown

Blogs are already moving upmarket and improving. The term “Professional Blogger” is no longer an oxymoron. Some in the traditional media realize this – ESPN, for example, recently purchased the popular basketball blog TrueHoop.com to complement its other online news offerings. ~ Luke Langford

by Robbi Gunter

Robbi Gunter is a professional Internet marketer, specializing in niche blogs using WordPress. Check out Best Deal Blog Hosting for hosting your blog.