The Today Show did a segment they called "The Dark Side of Mom Blogs" (sigh), with in-studio guests Isabel Kallman of AlphaMom and Susan Getgood, cofounder of Blog With Integrity. The segment started out with this phrase that you all know I HATE: "So-Called Mom Blogs" WHY, Today Show? Why do you have to throw that mocking "so-called" phrase in? I can almost see your editor making air quotes with his or her fingers while suggesting that wording. We do not write "so-called" Mom Blogs. WE WRITE BLOGS, and we can call them whatever the hell we want! Would you introduce an actor as a "so-called" actor, or a new musician as a "so-called" musician? It's patronizing and I do not like it. I have no idea why there was nothing else going on in the world more important than the burning topic of NEGATIVE BLOG COMMENTS, but I'm wondering, why stop at Mom Blogs?  Will the Today Show be doing an in-depth report on the topic of the dark side of, say, political blogs? Fashion blogs?  … [Read more...]