What kind of blogger are you today?

Dan Janal asks What kind of blogger are you? and gives options including:

Thinkers: the highest form of blogging. These people offer new ideas and perspectives that serve to inspire us all.
Linkers: they can't think, but they sure can research! Their blogs are full of links to thinkers.
Blingers: they use the blogs as personal mirrors, to say "Blogger, blogger on the wall, who is fairest blogger of all? They'll talk about their accomplishments, people they've met and places they are jetting off to speak at.

I have the answer: split the roles. I'll try and keep on thinking here on Designing for Civil Society. I've set up a links blog at Engaging. And over at Partnerships Online I'll feel free to indulge in some gentle blinging about projects I'm working on. Except ... comments on Dan's blog add more types:

Whiners: They use their blog to complain about any ideas other bloggers voice -- right before attacking them personally.
Zingers: They criticize others.
Flingers: They throw a bunch of stuff, and see what sticks.
Malingerers: Each entry starts with, "Sorry it's been so long since my last posting, but..."
Scoopers: 1st out with a new story that everyone else quotes and blogs about.
Buzzers: always reviewing and/or promoting something.
Regurgitators: no time to write anything original just regurgitate everyone else's blogs.

Maybe we can split it by day. Malingering Monday, Cheerful Tuesday. Whining Wednesday, each with a different feed so readers can choose. Soon life starts to imitate blogging...

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Comments

[Bill Anderson]

David, after an us/them conversation today, I have a very mixed reaction to this classification. I find that when I divide people up this way I just discover all those bits of myself that I wasn't so happy with.

What concerns me is how all this labeling seems more to foster separation over participation.