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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.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

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 had a blog for many years. Once you develop your readership on your blog, and you can put something out there or direct traffic or get attention - it's like a super power.

Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.

I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.