Bloggernacle

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The Bloggernacle or Bloggernacle Choir is a name that has been adopted by the LDS blogging community to describe the Mormon portion of the blogosphere. It was created as a play on words of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. An individual LDS blogger is sometimes referred to as a bloggernacker, nacker, naccer or bloggern.

Contents 1 History of Bloggernacle 2 See also 2.1 Indices 2.2 In the media

[edit] History of Bloggernacle

On March 23, 2004, due to an article in The Revealer, it came to the attention of the Mormon blogging community that the Jewish and Catholic blogging communities had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled "The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere" a writer at the prominent LDS blog Times and Seasons sought to remedy this situation and asked for suggestions for a name. A reader posting under the name "Grasshopper" quickly suggested "Bloggernacle Choir", the shortened version of which gained wide approval. "Bloggernacle" is a term that has been used commonly by most LDS bloggers ever since.

During 2005, several LDS-themed podcasts entered the Bloggernacle to augment LDS blogging with audio programming.

[edit] See also

• St. Blog's Parish - Name adopted by Catholic blogging community.
• J-Blogosphere - Name adopted by Jewish blogging community

[edit] Indices

• A Soft Answer
• LDS and Mormon Blogs index
• Another LDS and Mormon Blogs index
• Mormon Podcast Index
• Mormon Archipelago
• Planet LDS
• LDSelect

[edit] In the media

• NY Times article, 5 March 2005, “Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs”, Debra Nussbaum Cohen
• Salt Lake Tribune article, 18 November 2005, "A weblog full of 'tiny dramas in Mormon lives' has a bigger drama going on behind the scenes", Peggy Fletcher Stack