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Mike Driehorst (via Twitter):

We all need acceptance and attention. Why else blog?

Christopher Kenton:

If you don’t know a librarian, you should. They remind us of two critical things in life: we don’t know nearly as much as we think we know, or should, and the sources we rely on these days for truth are not nearly as reliable as we’d like to believe.

(In honor of National Library Week.)

Phil Gomes:

I guess life is just that odd downtime between feeding frenzies in the blogosphere.

Phil Gomes (in a comment on Mike Driehorst’s blog):

Here’s to a Web 2.0 world where people remember that the “Send” button, though older and less-cool, is sometimes more appropriate than “Publish.”

(*) Doc Searls: I’ve said before that blogging is a way of sending emails that go “cc:world”.

Dr. Andrew Cline, Rhetorica:

No blogger expends the energy to blog for no reason and for no audience. Humans do not speak for no reason. A rhetorical intention exists in every message–no matter how small or profound. Bloggers would do themselves and their causes far more good if they paid attention to kairos and accepted that what they really really want deep deep down is to move hearts and minds. Such acceptance might lead them away from an unthinking pathos to the light of reason (i.e. a proper balance of appeals).

Such realizations would allow them to sleep in, cogitate a bit more, and attack the keyboard with righteous (and proportional) anger when the time is right.

- Look - like it or not, these bloggers have already gained a certain legitimacy.
- Yes, John. And therein lies our only hope. For with legitimacy, the bloggers will gain a seat at the table, and with that comes access, status, money, power, and… if we’ve learned anything about the mainstream media — that breeds complacency… or whatever.

John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show on the role of bloggers in today’s media, February 2005 | see the video | hat tip

Communication has emerged as a necessary object of attention in the 20th century, not because it’s new, but because it’s that portion of the social organism now undergoing elephantiasis.

Marshall McLuhan (1969, Counterblast)