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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.

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.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

I'm totally not a blogger. Sometimes I don't even check my email. I know I should.

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

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

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.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.