Bloggernacle
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The Bloggernacle or Bloggernacle Choir is a name that has been adopted by some in 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. Not all LDS-themed bloggers like or use the name Bloggernacle, or even consider their blog to be part of it.
[edit] History
On March 23, 2004, due to an article in The Revealer,[1] the Mormon blogging community noticed that the Jewish and Catholic blogging communities had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled "The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere",[2] the writer Kaimi Wenger at the LDS blog Times and Seasons sought to remedy this situation and asked for suggestions for a name. Christopher Bradford posting under the name "Grasshopper" suggested "Bloggernacle Choir", the shortened version of which gained wide approval. "Bloggernacle" is a term that has been used commonly by LDS bloggers.
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] Notes
[edit] References
- 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
[edit] External links
The following is a list of indices, which include several of the blogs in the Bloggernacle.
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