Comments on: Badge of Honor

By: Fast Forward

Fast Forward — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:43:37 +0000

[...] Favorite Blogger Friend in the WorldTM, Neil, has written yet another post that has caused me to shift my buttocks uncomfortably and stare stupidly at the blinking cursor on [...]

By: Middle-Aged-Woman

Middle-Aged-Woman — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:30:30 +0000

As I am fond of saying, “Blogger doesn’t start with Mommy.” Also, I am currently making room for my goat. Will the garage do?

By: Peeved Michelle

Peeved Michelle — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:54:22 +0000

I’ve been blogging for seven years and I have never once been tempted to take myself so seriously.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:35:24 +0000

I am just finding it sad that so many people are misunderstanding the spirit of BWI, egged on in part by a lot of misrepresentation in comments here.

I don’t know that is a fair thing to say. Misunderstanding the spirit is sort of like saying that someone had good intentions. Good intentions are awesome, except when all hell breaks loose.

I appreciate what you are trying to do, I just dislike how it is being done. There is something about the mommyblogger gravy train that comes across as being shallow and inauthentic.

That does a disservice to all the cool mommybloggers out there.

PS, for a while a lot of people used to talk about BWI as being blogging while inebriated.

Fortunately BWI is much safer than DWI unless you are blogging about your ex or boss in which case it has serious potential for damage.

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:59:37 +0000

I am just finding it sad that so many people are misunderstanding the spirit of BWI, egged on in part by a lot of misrepresentation in comments here.

I am happy to discuss it at any time with anyone. Email me at mom101[at]mac.com.

It’s simply a way of saying “hey! We bloggers, we do a lot of things right! Let’s be proud of that!” Whether or not you post a badge or not is entirely besides the pont.

All I can say is my mom is proud of me for taking a stand about something I believe in and that makes me feel really good. My mom is cool. You’d like her.

By: shawnkquinn.com » Blog Archive » Do we really need a blogger badge for integrity?

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:46:20 +0000

[...] A recent post on Neil Kramer’s blog, Citizen of the Month discusses the rather controversial Blog With Integrity group/movement and its associated badge. [...]

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:22:57 +0000

I don’t have ads. Don’t get solicited for anything other than spam, and my readership is slowly dwindling as I write less and less.

So it would seem I have little invested in this badge.

I do understand the reasons behind its creation, but like some many things in this atmosphere, it all becomes a little bandwagon-y. That really wears me out. Hence, no badge on my site.

Not having been at BlogHer, however, and not witnessing many of the things that went on…who knows? Perhaps being front and center to some of the madness would have compelled me.

Still, these days, I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I’m also generally in a pissy mood. I’m not saying that’s a good reason, but it’s kind of what it boils down to for me.

By: lildb

lildb — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:53:43 +0000

writing is bigger than this. it’s bigger than all of us. it’s bigger than ads, and competition with magazines and newspapers and journalists and television and radio and ipods and it’s bigger than books and papyrus and feather pens and bark and wild berry juice and the sky and the stars and the night and milky, milky way.

it just is.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:35:59 +0000

Either the badges have a specific meaning to the outside world or they don’t.

They are meaningless, useless and worthless. It is a marketing trick and it demeans people. I don’t like the idea of being asked to shop at the honest store. Call me naive, but I like to believe that most people are honest.

It is very telling that so many people find these badges to be questionable.

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about the mommyblogger gravy train that touched upon all this. Call me what you will, but I don’t believe that a lot of these bloggers are doing it for anything but the desire to get free crap.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:37:08 +0000

I spoke at length with Liz about this at BlogHer. I really didn’t get why it was necessary and why people were making such a big deal about it for so long. But some of the greed and entitlement and saw and heard about at BlogHer put it into perspective. I think it’s more aimed at bloggers who are trying to make money off their blogs. Kind of like a Good Houseekeeping seal, if you will, to show businesses they adhere to certain standards. And I definitely didn’t get the impression that it was a “For us or against us” kind of thing. I have ads on my blog, but I make so little money from them that I’m pretty sure I don’t count. Also, I’m too lazy and easily distracted to do product reviews anymore. I told her I probably wouldn’t put it on my blog and she was cool with that. And I know she was because she mentioned me and our conversation in one of her BlogHer posts. I get what they’re trying to do. It’s just not for me, and they seem to be OK with that.