Comments on: Honoring the Hard Working Blue Collar Bloggers http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: All You Need To Know About the Blogging Bourgeoisie at Henricus http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-889825 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:58:50 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-889825 [...] Lorelle: Yes, there is. [...]

]]> By: Do Bloggers Do It Better? | Diary Blog of Elaine Vigneault http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-522202 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:18:56 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-522202 [...] gig to make a little extra money. (And that’s just the American bloggers. We call them “blue-collar bloggers” because they usually do it for money, not for anything else. But most bloggers aren’t even [...]

]]> By: Final Word on the "A-List" - Or is It? | The Last Podcast http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-191721 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:10:33 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-191721 [...] the way, wasn’t the whole discussion started by some people saying that even though many bloggers work hard, they never quite make it? Loren [...]

]]> By: JTony http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-190186 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:31:09 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-190186 And what about those of us who blog not for getting dugg or being on any list, but just to get our voices out there, AND who (so far) refuse to put ads up at all? What does that make us? Volunteer Bloggers? The Red Cross or Peace Corps of the blog cosmos?

I don’t think the “class” categorization is any better than the A,B,C list categorization. It doesn’t really tell us anything new about the way we blog, and categorization should tell us something new. Otherwise it is just labeling which can easily be used to pigeonhole and discriminate. Discussion over the spectrum of blogs who use ads (those that give good, well written/visualized content to those that put up junk just to get the ad revenue, and those in between) is hugely helpful, but lumping them all into the term “Blue Collar Bloggers” doesn’t try to examine anything about that, it just separates them from the “White Collar Bloggers”.

Oh, and regarding Shekels: In some places in the United States it has become a term for money in general. I grew up in Utah, and my Mother would constantly say “save your shekels” when I wanted something. Remember, this is Utah, about as far away from Israel or New York as you can get, and the term has been bouncing around there for at least 60 years.

]]> By: Kirk M http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189702 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:38:30 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189702 I’m a blue collar worker and I have a blog that just turned it’s first year in Febuary (though it’s been hosted from Blogger to WP.com to my own WP install, the content has remained).

I don’t do PPP and never will but I do have a place in my sidebar waiting to be filled with ads from TLA but apparently I’m not popular enough :) and I write what I darn well please about life in general and I try to add a touch of humor as well.

So what does that make me?

A “Blue Collar Worker Blogger”? What about those huh?

Just wondering. :P

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189543 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:53:11 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189543 I moved recently from Israel. It’s a habit for me. Not a trend. ;-)

]]> By: Dale http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189494 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:22:25 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189494 Wow, this conversation has gone wild, hasn’t it? Maybe the fact that it’s tapped such a nerve is as significant as the subject itself… maybe moreso….

Thanks once again for commenting at my site, and thanks loads for the trackback … my first one! Yay!

]]> By: Miriam http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189435 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:40:13 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189435 PayPerPost or not, I was amused by the reference to shekels. Has shekels become an international currency? Or is it becoming a mainstream reference to money, just like schmooze and schlep have become part of the English vernacular? Well, for anyone who wants to make a shekel, you should be aware that it takes over 4 shekels to buy a dollar…

]]> By: Deep Jive Interests » Yes, Mr. Calacanis, The A-List Exists. No, Its Not Easy To Break Into (If You Wanted To). http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189384 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:58:27 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189384 [...] a little about how A-list bloggers didn’t “get” blue-collar blogging types [which got picked up by Lorelle] I make it a habit of replying back on my blog whenever possible, and comments on my blog or no [...]

]]> By: Class Warfare And The Blogging A List » Webomatica - tech, movies, music blog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189324 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:03:00 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/honoring-the-hard-working-blue-collar-bloggers/#comment-189324 [...] Reading: Lorelle on WordPress, Jim Kukral, The Last [...]

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