I would classify you as a writer. Doesn’t matter what you write about, you are a writer!

I also have a newfound respect for the MommyBlogs. It is thrown around as a derogatory term I think, like we are of less value than “Real Bloggers”…but I think it is time we own the title and turn things around. There was lots of good conversation this weekend.

I so agree with you though. I don’t feel that I “dismiss” certain blogs – I just don’t like to read 100% of everything that everybody writes. And I don’t expect everyone to like me either.

I’m not quite sure what all the hype is about traffic though. It still strikes me as odd that a personal blogger would be so consumed with the number of people reading versus the quality of the discussion and relationships formed through their writing. But, to each his own, right?

The ones who now have little snippets that say, “Come see me over at this other paid blog.” Or “I have a new post up over at gives-me-money blog.”

I don’t want to linky-loo over there. I don’t want to read something that is edited to fit someone else’s idea of a blog or some assignment blog. I want to read your personal shit. I want to read unedited ramblings that you spew forth. I want realness.

Keep it real, Zoot!

(At work, they call me a donut whore.)