Let’s Stop Using The Term Blogger
Upon perusing a couple of fan sites for a sports team this morning I began musing on how blogs have evolved over the years and how the term originally applied to the content management system has grown to cover several genres of writing.
As a fan of the New York Mets I was one of the first 12 bloggers to discuss the team nearly 10 years ago. Now there are so many blogs covering the team that I can’t even count them all. Some, like mine, are small places where people write about certain topics relating to the team when the mood strikes. Others are teams of writers assigned to certain aspects of the team, it’s organization and it’s functions. Still others are written by professional writers under the mastheads of nationally (and internationally) known publications.
It’s great how the technology has grown and packages like WordPress have made it easy to deploy the technology. But we can no longer use the term blogger like we did in the old days. These days a blogger can be:
- A writer for an internationally known organization like the New York Times (which has a large blogs section of their own).
- Professional writers who want to write independently. (Such as a reporter who wants to write something outside of the organization that employs them.)
- Teams of amateurs who share an interest.
- A single person who wants to write about something (anything).
There are other types of people who write on blogs as well but I think that covers the four basic types of blogs.
With so many different types of blogs how can we continue to use the term “blogger” universally?
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