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Your help needed to develop “blogger typology”
Sunday, December 21st, 2008
(NB: If you have both a blog and a short attention span, please skip the article, and go straight to this short survey. Many thanks!)
What is a blogger? Everyone seems to think they know, and yet the longer I work in this area, the more I realize I know nothing. And the less I know, the more suspicious I become of marketers who use vague terms like “conversation” (which has – after all – become little more than a Latinization of the ghastly “dialogue”.) I can just about understand what Technorati means when they talk about
The ecosystem of interconnected communities of bloggers and readers at the convergence of journalism and conversation.
…but there are an awful lot of long words that could turn out to hide an awful lot. And that’s the carefully thought-out distillation of a bunch of experts. Most of us, most of the time fall back on lazy or confusing language. We talk about “social media” and never stop to think that — depending on who’s doing the talking (and what they have to sell) — what is meant by that apparently innocuous phrase shifts wildly from speaker to speaker.
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