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23 de Marzo, 2007

A Bloggle of Wogglers

Categorized under Blogando | Tags: 2007 Blogger Stylebook

grafik by Nezua IT IS A STRANGE PHENOMENON that happens when people think of bloggers. I usually type 'BLOGGERZ' because that's how "we" are so often thought of. As if one can tie a "group" or "type" of people together by the behavior that they TYPE WORDS that others can read and otherwise, do not necessarily have anything in common regarding their methodology but that they figured out some software and regularly fire it up.

Yet, it always reappears, this urge to define what function a BLOGGER has. Across the board. And I'm sure the tendency is a human one, somehow related to our need to understand environmental factors, assess behaviors and entities, group them, take inventory. As bloggers are so often human, this tendency presenteth on the Regular.

The truth is that these people need a copy of Nezua's 2007 Blogger Stylebook, which would have cleared it up for them. As defined on page 882( Glossary), a "Blogger" is simply:

[A] person* who advertises their opinion or images on the Internet using some type of (preferably free) software while they are paid for (ostensibly) performing other activities.
*An animal may blog if they reside with a human liaison.

We all have our parts to play. Some inform, some influence, some critique, some cozy up the Establishment for A B or C, some deconstruct, some entertain, some seek to make change, or to challenge, some seek to affect the dialogue, some serve to translate the dialogue or spark new ones, some just like to talk about how drunk they got the night before (among my favorite types). And there is, of course, overlap of a varying and indeterminate amount.

So relax! And do ya thang. Others will do theirs. It will all shake out. Even on the days you don't blog at all.

 The Unapologetic Mexican has been known to scribble a few things besides meandering, verbose, self-congratulatory blog posts. However, they are rarely as fun. Finally, let it be known that Nezua first dared bust out this Habanero of Truth at exactly 8:58 AM.  | Top | View blog reactions

Comentarios (5)

Kai dijo:

LOL, Nezua why do you insist on continually cracking me up with these hilarious nugs?! To me, treating "bloggers" as a group of some kind is like grouping "speakers", or perhaps "speakers into microphone-amplification-loudspeaker technology". It's nonsense. Using a certain media technology (a fountain pen, a printing press, a microphone, a blog) says nothing about what you're up to. Media dorks don't get that. ;-)

Palabras por Kai spat forth on el 23 de Marzo, 2007 at 03:03 PM