Blog Culture Quotes

My music is kind of laid back, it doesn't have super crispy, shiny production, and I'm not singing my heart out or whatever. But that whole idea of blogs declaring: "this is the new denomination for this sound" is ridiculous to me.

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

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

It's so hard, because everyone's got a camera-phone, and everyone wants to get their picture on the blogs. So they'll send anything that they have to the blogs. So you don't really get any privacy.

We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.

I don't read literary blogs. I used to read them, but it was upsetting when they would talk, in a snarky way, about my friends.

Blogs are nothing more than a personal meandering diary for public consumption - a narcissist's dream. So you can imagine when bloggers take themselves - and their blogs - seriously, it's super annoying.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.

It's actually difficult to know what anyone wants these days. Tastes seem to change so quickly nowadays depending on the latest blog. The latest Facebook page. Twitter is somewhat important in telling you what you should want.