Poor Beloved. Not only does he have to put up with all the time I sink into blog, and every family moment being potential blog fodder, but he has to endure a blogosphere play-by-play as it tries to pass for polite dinner conversation.<\/p>\n
(Sidebar: I just had an interesting insight. Are blogs to women of our generation what soap operas were to the women of the previous generation? Discuss.)<\/p>\n
So I was telling Beloved about this <\/a>blogger, who happens to be a columnist for one of our national dailies, and her post <\/a>about buying $140 designer jeans for her daughter. Her two-year-old daughter. Once we got past the whole idea of spending that much money on a single pair of pants for a toddler, we started discussing her blog in general, and how I can’t quite warm up to it because I think she posts stuff just to be inflamatory and get people talking about her.<\/p>\n And Beloved said, “So what?”<\/p>\n I thought about it, and he’s right. Who says blogging has to be sincere, or genuine, or authentic? Maybe her life really is just like she posts in her blog, but I think she torques it to get people talking – if not to her, at least about her. She’s using her blog to promote her brand, and if it’s working, more power to her. It’s that old axiom, I guess, about say whatever you want about me in the papers, just make sure you spell my name right.<\/p>\n She’s drawing a surprising amount of venom and vitriol, though. I’ve been writing this blog more or less daily for a year, and she gets more hateful comments in a day than I’ve gotten altogether. (Come to think of it, I’ve never gotten a hateful comment. Touch wood.) Someone’s even gone to all the trouble of making a mockup of her blog. And while I don’t agree with a lot of what she writes, or have a lot in common with her, I kind of admire her ability to stir things up.<\/p>\n What do you think? Go ahead, choose a topic – blogs as modern-day soaps, $140 jeans for toddlers, truth and accuracy in blogging, blogging to promote your brand – surely there’s something worth commenting on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poor Beloved. Not only does he have to put up with all the time I sink into blog, and every family moment being potential blog fodder, but he has to endure a blogosphere play-by-play as it tries to pass for polite dinner conversation. (Sidebar: I just had an interesting insight. Are blogs to women of … Continue reading “Blogging your brand”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}