Comments on: How much can they not get it?

By: Martin Stabe » links for 2007-03-14

Martin Stabe » links for 2007-03-14 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:22:14 +0000

[...] doctorvee » How much can they not get it? Doctorvee is unimpressed with the item about blogging Five Live’s Sunday Breakfast programme which, he says, was guilty of “reinforcing the stereotypes about how bloggers are just people who write about what they had for breakfast”. (tags: blogging blogs bbc fivelive) [...]

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:21:16 +0000

Yeah, I thought about the podcasts one as well. But I struggled to come up with its equivalent of the diary ‘entry’ or the blog ‘post’. Is it episode? (Sorry, I don’t listen to podcasts much!)

By: Ryan Morrison

Ryan Morrison — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:40:42 +0000

Oh and Deacon - you’d send them the internet down the Tubes of course

I get REALLY wound up when people say “read my latest blog” and my first thought it “oh have you launched a new one on a different subject” but the reality is that it’s just a post.

The same appears in podcasting as well. The number 10 downing street ‘podcasts’ are among the worst offenders there.

By: Deacon Barry

Deacon Barry — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:23:33 +0000

And of course, if you wanted to tell someone you’d written your first blog, you would send them an internet.

By: MatGB

MatGB — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:48:25 +0000

am I the only person who gets a bit annoyed whenever somebody (almost always a non-blogger) calls a post a “blog”?

Oh hell no. Gets to me every time. And it’s a bit like on CiF where some of the columnists that now get comments refer tot he commenters as “bloggers”. No, mostly they’re NOT bloggers, they’re lazy arse commenters who can’t be bothered to set their own site up (because if you can’t set up a blogspot then you’re too stupid for words).

There is a blog, it contains a series of articles, or posts. Each of these may (or may not) have a related set of comments. Calling a post “a blog” is stupid. Unfortunately, there are a number of bloggers that do it as well. When someone says “I blogged about” then I deal, but when they say “my blog on”, then I cringe.