Get your tops off (your blog)
Damien Mulley writes today that Top 10 lists and the like have the effect of cheapening a blog. He mentions this in light of the Ten Signs of a Cheap Blog entry that was posted here.
If this is to be the case, then In Fact, Ah must be the Lidl of cheap Irish blogging. However, this blog is not in the habit of saying out loud who it thinks is the Marks & Spencer.
This leads me on to what I think is a most crass and horribly sycophantic artform that some bloggers have almost made their own. It seems that arse-licking, constant referring, ego-rogering and sticky-cliquing is prevalent in the Irish Boggersphere too. There's nothing wrong with setting up groups, promoting certain ideas and organising events. It's a great thing to establish a sense of community. But when that line is crossed, the distinction between friendliness and self-promotion becomes blurred.
(To get one thing clear, this is not an attack on Damien Mulley personally. He is entitled to have an opinion, as I do on lots of different issues pertaining to blogs.)
Published by Colm.
If this is to be the case, then In Fact, Ah must be the Lidl of cheap Irish blogging. However, this blog is not in the habit of saying out loud who it thinks is the Marks & Spencer.
This leads me on to what I think is a most crass and horribly sycophantic artform that some bloggers have almost made their own. It seems that arse-licking, constant referring, ego-rogering and sticky-cliquing is prevalent in the Irish Boggersphere too. There's nothing wrong with setting up groups, promoting certain ideas and organising events. It's a great thing to establish a sense of community. But when that line is crossed, the distinction between friendliness and self-promotion becomes blurred.
(To get one thing clear, this is not an attack on Damien Mulley personally. He is entitled to have an opinion, as I do on lots of different issues pertaining to blogs.)
Published by Colm.
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