http://ihatebloggers.com Blogging is not a "profession" Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:19:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There comes a time in most bloggers' lives when the initial excitement has worn off, the friends and family (haha.. yea, I know, but it's a turn of phrase) have stopped being interested in whatever it is Dennis does all day at his computer, and the blogger realises that blogging ... http://ihatebloggers.com/reinforcing-the-delusion-blogger-conferences-or-blogcons/ Before we had blogging, 'bloggers' (or as they were known back in those simpler times- "losers") who wished to make money on a freelance or self-employed basis would frequently have to go through the following steps. Completing these steps transformed a "loser" into a "productive member of society". - Choose a ... http://ihatebloggers.com/blogging-provides-bloggers-with-a-short-cut-to-wealth/ If interviewing yourself on your own blog wasn't enough to make you feel like your father was wrong all along, another technique that was spotted by our very own antiblogger Mr. DJB (given a secret spy name for your own protection, his name really is hideous) this week is that ... http://ihatebloggers.com/blogging-verb-to-stroke-your-own-ego-often-repeatedly/ A recurring theme with bloggers on various blogs is to have a blog post on the topic of "Where do you blog from" or "Where I blog from". Firstly, "blog" is not a fucking verb! Secondly, "blog" is not a fucking verb! "Hi this is Steve and I'm writing this post ... http://ihatebloggers.com/where-do-you-blog-from-i-blog-from-my-lavatory/ While bloggers take every opportunity to twitter on about how they have single handedly destroyed mainstream media such as newspapers and television (yea, right!) a more disheartening turn of events is that some professional journalists and column writers have been forced volunteered to start their own blogs ... http://ihatebloggers.com/professional-journalists-fearing-for-their-lives-desperately-scramble-to-become-bloggers/ The bloggers who blog about making money online from your blog are perhaps the worst kind of bloggers. They like to borrow phrases and words from the business world to convince you they are themselves successful and to help up the emotional ante and get you personally involved in their ... http://ihatebloggers.com/bloggers-using-blog-speech-offend-my-ears/ Blogs are dull and no more duller than those written by the blogger who thinks she can teach you how to live your life better than you are currently managing to do yourself. These types of bloggers prey on the desperate and the hopeful and in a perfect world would ... http://ihatebloggers.com/life-coach-bloggers-actually-have-no-life-to-coach-about/ The narcissism of your average blogger is never short of breathtaking. Even the most useless and boring of blogs like to make a huge trumpet and fanfare about the smallest of changes to their blog. One of the biggest examples of this is the "new look coming soon" type of ... http://ihatebloggers.com/everything-that-happens-on-my-blog-is-a-major-world-event/ Bloggers often love to show how brilliant they are when compared to other bloggers by proudly proclaiming, usually in their blog tagline, what particular phrase they rank very highly for in google, yahoo and other search engines. Mainly google. So, without further ado, I proudly state that: You need to read ... http://ihatebloggers.com/i-hate-bloggers-dot-com-number-1-for-dogs-pubic-hair/ Oh please. I wish respectable media sources would stop giving credence to the idea of "professional blogging". Imagine having the occupation on your passport listed as "blogger". Is there a more ridiculous idea? It would be like taking up potplants and suddenly making a career out of it. Actually, pot ... http://ihatebloggers.com/occupation-blogger/