“I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, ...” — Evan Williams Quote

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.

People want to do good things, they just need a prod sometimes, and what Twitter and other technologies that connect people are showing us is that if you make it a little easier for people then you will enable them to do what they want to do, to help people out, to form groups and do good.

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker.

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We'd be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren't for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

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

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