Mommy Blogs reduced to "Baby-Offs"
Categories: Just For Moms, Just For Dads, Playground Bureau, Media
Last
week I shared a non-mom's point of
view about the parent blog genre. She had such nice and positive things to say. And then, I read this.The Globe and Mail with Rebecca Eckler takes on the Mommy Blogs in a new column "chronicling the extremes of competitive parenting". Somehow blogs, according to the author, fall in this category? The author seems to feel this genre is simply another chance for mothers to one up each other.
"Some mommy bloggers get 5,000 hits a day. Well, I'll get 6,000!"
So we've now gone from writing about motherhood honestly and openly as a feminist and radical act to blogging as another example of competitive parenting. I'd like to think someone is missing the point here, maybe it's me and the sarcastic humor is going right over my head. (Thanks Jen!)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kim 3-05-2006 @ 11:51AM
I thought it was pretty sarcastic. 5000??? I average 11. It's a radical act, even if nobody is reading.
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Eden 3-05-2006 @ 12:00PM
Kim gets 11? I'll get 12!
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Jenn 3-05-2006 @ 12:05PM
I think she was being sarcastic. If you read her blog it makes more sense. Like this quote:
"The fact is I like mommies now and, I think, the point of this blog, along with other mommy blogs, is to somehow feel not so alone, especially when you become a mother."
Unfortunately, it would seem that although she just started up her blog on March 1st, she's already recieved a whole lot of hate for various things, from her parenting, how she treats her nanny, her writing...
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Kim 3-05-2006 @ 12:52PM
Make that 13, Eden. I just visited your blog!
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Caitlin 3-05-2006 @ 1:24PM
I thought it was sarcastic too.
If I get a lot of hits on Random Text, it's generally from Paul's grandmas and great grandmas, because I haven't managed to get them using rss and they will sit there and hit refresh a good bit of the day. ;)
Saying you get 5000 hits a day is kind of meaningless unless you have unique ips and filter out bot traffic as well as your own visits, imo. You also have to look at what resources are getting the hits. My most frequently hit resource on Random Text isn't one of my actual blog posts, but my page with the addresses of used bookstores where I live.
I did write a little about blogs, stats, and tools to interpret them the other day, if anyone is interested in which tools to use for tracking stats on self hosted blogs.( http://geekmama.net/2006/03/03/shortstat-for-wp-201-and-other-stat-miscellany/ )
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Susie Sunshine 3-05-2006 @ 5:04PM
As one of the blogs mentioned in the article, I chose to interpret it as sarcasm, with a sprinkling of generosity in giving smaller time bloggers exposure.
I don't get anywhere near 5,000 hits a day, nor do I care. The numbers are not the reason I write.
My reason is much simpler: I write because the blog helps me recall exactly how much better my kids are than everyone else's when we have Mom-Offs.
(Kidding! My preschooler ATE A LIGHT off the Christmas tree! There's a bed wetter! It's chaos and anarchy and the little people are winning over here!)
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tanyetta 3-05-2006 @ 6:57PM
What! Kim get's 11 and Eden gets 12? I demand a recount. I only get 2. LOL...Just kidding. I love them both, don't send me hate mail people!!!!!!! I never knew there was a competition for hits. Hilarious!
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ann adams 3-06-2006 @ 5:46PM
Make that 14 Eden.
I didn't know that either although another blogger and I are enjoying our own friendly contest on another subject.
Some of us have a competition going on who can be the first to comment. Think we have too much time on our hands?
I think the comments on the blog are the most fun and I get far more when I post something really silly.
The day it stops being fun and turns into some kind of competition is the day I quit.
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