Damien Mulley has expressed his dislike for the recent proliferation of non-blogs on irishblogs.ie. He makes the point that many are not blogs in the traditional sense and should be treated as blog spam. They are merely feeds that have wrangled their way onto this aggregator. Couldn't agree more with him. Surely the distinction between regular Web sites and blogs is an easy one to spot?

While his dislike for the content that is emerging in Irish blogs is understandable, it probably isn't in the best interest of the blogosphere to start criticising these new blogs straight off the bat. Being able to write daily about a particular interest, no matter how mundane the subject is to other people, is one of the things that makes blogging special. When we had the Irish Blog awards, wasn't the usual "It's an online diary" line trotted out when having to explain what a blog actually was? Diaries in the old fashioned sense meant writing about a doctor's appointment, mowing the lawn, going to a social event.

So Fashion Fix doesn't float your boat. Too bad, it's still a blog.

Oh no, these terrible bloggers are only out for their cut of the Google Adsense money! How come corporate evangelical blogging hasn't been slammed? In essence, they're doing the same thing. It's all about the Yankee dollar folks. How many companies in Ireland have a blogging representative in the Irish blogosphere?

I'll try not to be a hypocrite. I've mentioned here in the past my own dislike for certain blogs. But they should still partake.

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