A Blogger is just a Writer with a Cooler Name
Ad Age looks into the true meaning of the word blogger. From the article: “There is no such thing as a blogger. Blogging is just writing — writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology. Even though I tend to first use Microsoft Word on the way to being published, I am not, say, a Worder or Wordder.”
I too have asked myself if I’m a blogger or a writer. For some reason I esteem the term writer with a higher regard, mostly because I think a writer reverts to more research, thesis checking, etc. Over the past year I have written over 1,100 articles or posts for a variety of sites. Some are full length editorials while others are more straight news aggregation with a quick comment on the side.
In a way I do consider the terms blogger and writer to be different. When I’m writing an editorial piece, I’d hope to consider myself a writer, at lest an amateur one. When I’m posting an news topic while throwing my two cents in, I would consider that an act of blogging. As for this post, you be the judge…
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Hm. This is a very good post. I, too, would say that a “writer” is more distinguished somehow. But just this morning, I was thinking about how I do the same things as magazine editors, reporters, and creative writers. Sometimes I write press-releases, sometimes I write social commentaries, and sometimes I just write in a stream of conscious. Hm. I am a writer!
The thing that I like about blogging is that I don’t feel like it as technical as “writing.”
Writer! Er no Blogger! Wait, which is which again? 😉
To further confuse the subject, I theorize that bloggers are a type of writer. Thus, all bloggers are writers, but not all writers are bloggers.
Ummm, where does that leave blog commentors?