Matt Thompson, in 2008, on his blog:

The other day, I was thinking about how I've never kept a diary. And there was a moment of regret -- all those thoughts and memories that have just been scattered to the ages! But then I remembered Snarkmarket, which is the oddest type of diary, because it's not about me. It's about how I view the world.

Tim Carmody, in 2014, on his blog:

People want a place, a third place, and blogs are a great form of that place, even when they're not blogs.

Snarkmarket is 11 years old today, and like the preteen that it is, it's not as communicative as its parents would always wish it would be. Attention and quiet are scarce resources, and even a hardy desert ecosystem needs those two things to sustain itself. Still, it's a relief to know that Snarkmarket is always here, a pied-a-terre in the blogosphere for those of us who live on social media, dark social, the official world of formal communications, the imaginary world of invented fictions, the obligations and complications that life continually calls on us to address and fulfill. Snarkmarket is here.

Trevor Butterworth:

One wonders whether the pressure to churn out material means that Wonkblog is more blog than wonk, and, more broadly, that the entire field of "explainer" or "wonk" journalism is at risk of undermining itself by being thought of as a distinctive kind of beat or even as a news operation. Surely data and data analysis is just something journalists should do if the story requires it, not something that should be partitioned off like "Sunday Styles" or "How to Spend It."

Matt Mullenweg:

So blog just for two people. First, write for yourself, both your present self whose thinking will be clarified by distilling an idea through writing and editing, and your future self who will be able to look back on these words and be reminded of the context in which they were written. Second, write for a single person who you have in mind as the perfect person to read what you write, almost like a letter, even if they never will, or a person who you're sure will read it because of a connection you have to them.