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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.

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

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'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.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

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

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.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

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

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