Hidden away on Page 9 of last Saturday’s edition of The Daily Examiner was yet another example of the mainstream media’s ignorance about blogs, blogging and bloggers.
I could feel the indignation burning up the email I received that same day, which pointed out this sentence from the pen of APN journalist Emma Pritchard and added red highlighting as emphasis:
Edible Bloomer's, an online suggestion through the Daily Examiner website from popular blogger "Yambaman".
Now a weblog aka blog is either an independent or hosted online publication created and controlled by the blogger or bloggers who write the regular posts thereon.
People whose only cyber presence is on Facebook, Twitter or similar sites are not bloggers.
Readers who comment on discussion boards, forums, under online newspaper articles or under blog posts are not bloggers.
To call “Yambaman” a blogger is to insult the entire blogosphere by attempting to stretch the genuine definition beyond all credibility.