I love blogs and I love blogging, but over the last few years we’ve had an influx of mega-corp bloggers – you know, the “professional” columnists backed by big money to write “blogs” on mega-corp sites. Now, the number one thing you hear from these “bloggers” is how they are making the medium better, giving it credability. I, for one, disagree. The more corporate, big name “journalist” we have blogging, the more it seems we are loosing track of what blogging was meant to be: the voice of the everyman (or everyone). It was the outlet of hoi polloi! It was colorful and weird and wild. Now, with this influx of journalistic media blogs from MSN and Yahoo! and Google, we’re loosing touch with how wonderful it was to be able to communicate ideas freely and without being pitched to every three-and-a-half seconds.
So, I’ve started a series I call Blog Oops! In it, I will take snap shots from the blogs and pages of so-called professional sites and demonstrate that they too have their goof-ups.
If you agree with my little rant about the corporatizing of the blogs, then please feel free to participate by sending me screenshots of “professional” or corporate blog blunders and allow me to post them here – you will be given credit, of course, for finding the errors.
Thanks,
Shaun Industry™
