I love this question. Coming from the print world, I often talk to 3 kinds of fellow ink-stained wretches.
1. The ones who are plugged in or getting plugged in to social media and love the freedom and power it brings
2. The ones who want to get all social media’ed up and are a bit scared (despite controlling budgets of large departments or writing award-winning copy)
3. The ones who are sure that bloggers and the like don’t really know anything and that the whole social media thing will eventually blow over or just not apply to them.
I always feel a bit sorry for the last group, who are the flat-earthers and Republican global-warming deniers of the print world.
Today Liz Jones writes in the Mail about bloggers and it seems she’s firmly in the second camp, and thinks of all us women bloggers should just don our burkas and get on with the self-oppression.
Read my latest post about it, over on the BritMums blog: It’s time to wake up and smell the bloggers
I’m a newbie in the first camp. I couldn’t make it on Saturday, but went to Travel BlogCamp last week and was shocked by how worked up some of the people there got about the relative merits of blogging and journalism – PRs were given a hard time too.
I thought that article Sarah Ditum wrote on mummy bloggers did raise some interesting points though. What is the equivalent of a daddy blogger and does anyone agree with her point about “I think there is a difference in the way we expect men and women to expose and exploit themselves for money. I can’t think of a male equivalent to Jones or Marnell, and I’ve spent a really long time looking for them.” There is a grain of truth in that somewhere although only a minority of mums blog just for the notoriety so it tars everyone with the same brush. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/15/delights-dangers-mummyblogging