Comments on: Notes from around the Bloggernacle Choir

By: Kaimi

Kaimi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And now the comments over at Met appear to be working just fine. It must have been the prayers of all of the readers.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Great–yesterday I was blogging, today I’m bloggernacking. This is as bad as when they tried to change the Sunbeams to the “I Am a Child of God” class.

On the other hand, Kaimi, your “Post of the Month” gig is a real winner. List every nominee and the top five “honorable mentions,” and you’ll have bloggernackers smiling all over the bloggernacle choir. (That just doesn’t sound right. Must change soon.)

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Dave, I think the one is a subset of the other, and that the availability of both terms will be helpful. So, for example, when I’m at, say, kellyripafan.blogspot.com, posting about my favorite soap star, I’m merely blogging, but when I’m discussing a point of doctrine with the online LDS community, I’m not just blogging, I’m BLOGGERNACKING.

Furthermore, what other online religious forum has their own specific VERB for blogging? And it’s fun to say, to boot. So, kudos on your contribution to the nascent lexicon; sorry you don’t actually like the word… :)

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Dave makes an important point. Note that its the ‘Bloggernacle’, not the ‘Bloggernacle Choir’.

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I think “bloggernacle choir” is a more appropriate description, since it implies lots of different voices singing different parts in some sort of unified whole. Their are solos, small group numbers, some voices blend well, while others are more shrill but add texture to the mix. “Bloggernacle” by itself just conjures the image of a holy shrine or temple where everyone has to be quiet and reverent so as to avoid offending the higher powers.

By: Thom

Thom — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Kaimi,

Thanks for the “notes” post. As a newcomer to the Choir, it is helpful to get an idea what all is going on where. Kudos!

By: Gordon Smith

Gordon Smith — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

FWIW, I like Thom’s image of many contributing voices. Plus, you can be a member of the Choir, but you can’t really join a Bloggernacle. (Can you?) Also, “Bloggernacle Choir” seem more flexible in terms of nicknames. As Thom illustrates, some people might think of themselves as part of the “Choir.” Other nicknames will also emerge. The BC or the ‘Nacle, as “Honey, I’m going to spend some time in the ‘Nacle tonight.”

Finally, I just wanted to say that “bloggernacking” is a stroke of (reluctant) genius.

By: Adam Greenwood

Adam Greenwood — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Neither name really works analagously. So what. The point is that Bloggernacle is pithier and has better rhythm. Notice that the proposed verbs have been bloggernacking, not bloggernacle choiring.