Quoting Betty Suarez as she was awarded the Blobby Award (Season 4, episode 13);

"...we're not here celebrating me tonight, as much as we are here celebrating what blogs can do. They can be use to thoughtlessly attack people from a seemingly safe vantage point..which is very regretable. But they can also make it possible for someone who has something to say but doesn't have a TV station or a major magazine to still make their voice be heard and I think that is really important..even if it's just 71 people listening."