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.
3 comments:
I am glad that has been cleared up. I find Yambaman has come across with his comments as too smug and righteously offensive for my liking...
Hmm, seems just a mention of the word Yambaman brings out the claws of Clarence Girl, what's in a name, get over it lady!
So, among the rest of the drivle from Yambaman comes this statement that proves a) he did not read your blog, or b) he does not understand English or c) despite the fact that you were writing about The Daily Examiner, his bloated ego made him believe you were writing about him.
Ignore him, ClarenceGirl.
Oh, and yes you were right about blogs and bloggers.
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