The title of blogger has to be earned
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:46 am
Michał Górecki has been writing about the blogosphere lately. I give a like to each subsequent post, because I absolutely agree with them. Under the like of the latest one – about the unforeseen development of the blogosphere – a standard discussion on the topic of “bloggers and journalists” has begun on my profile .
The conservatively minded audience places the latter above them. One of the basic arguments in defense of this thesis is: because journalists publish in media with an established reputation, a large group of recipients, and bloggers south africa rcs data are such frivolous children writing diaries, which they get bored with after the first entry.
I don't want to get into defining a blogger, because it's a bit of a vicious circle. The problem is that spreading the opinion of "anyone who has a blog is a blogger" leads to such misunderstandings. Abuse, one might say.
No, not everyone who has a blog is a blogger. You have to earn the title of blogger . By writing consistently. By building a community and staying in touch with it. By growing statistics. By any other criterion that is usually used to measure the popularity of a blog.
An unread blogger is no blogger at all.
I'm not writing this to annoy anyone. To exclude them from the blogosphere, to stigmatize them. I realize that we can't say: "anyone with less than 5 thousand unique followers is an asshole, not a blogger" or "anyone who doesn't have a thousand fans is as if they didn't have a blog". The reasons are obvious. The blogosphere is not a coherent entity. It is the complete opposite of coherence. Hence the definitional problems.
The conservatively minded audience places the latter above them. One of the basic arguments in defense of this thesis is: because journalists publish in media with an established reputation, a large group of recipients, and bloggers south africa rcs data are such frivolous children writing diaries, which they get bored with after the first entry.
I don't want to get into defining a blogger, because it's a bit of a vicious circle. The problem is that spreading the opinion of "anyone who has a blog is a blogger" leads to such misunderstandings. Abuse, one might say.
No, not everyone who has a blog is a blogger. You have to earn the title of blogger . By writing consistently. By building a community and staying in touch with it. By growing statistics. By any other criterion that is usually used to measure the popularity of a blog.
An unread blogger is no blogger at all.
I'm not writing this to annoy anyone. To exclude them from the blogosphere, to stigmatize them. I realize that we can't say: "anyone with less than 5 thousand unique followers is an asshole, not a blogger" or "anyone who doesn't have a thousand fans is as if they didn't have a blog". The reasons are obvious. The blogosphere is not a coherent entity. It is the complete opposite of coherence. Hence the definitional problems.