Are you thinking about jumping into the vast and ever-expanding Dadblog Universe? Over at her blog ABDPBTWTFOMGBBQR2D2C3PO (sp?), Anna Viele offers some suggestions to would-be daddybloggers. She does DadCentric a solid:
"Soon after you have been recognized on a mass scale by the mommies with power, you will start to wonder why, though your traffic is higher than most of your peers, you still don’t seem to be courted by corporations in a manner befitting your stature. You will question the wisdom of associating yourself with a blog network called “BlogHer,” given the fact that you are a “Him,” but ultimately decide that you can deal with it, because if you weren’t man enough for this gig, then you wouldn’t have signed up to be a mommy blogger. Er, daddy blogger. Still, your heart will yearn for more publicity, and your brain will craves the challenge that only a change of venue can provide. You will start to want to reach out to others of your own kind, and will seek solace and community in the form of DadCentric, where you will occasionally write posts for an audience smaller than that of your own blog, but earn the credibility that only Federated Media ad sponsorship can provide. At Dadcentric, you will become a regular and get something back of that male camaraderie that you lost when you sold yourself out to the group of chicks looking at nursing blankets outside the ballroom at the last blogging conference."
Our team of fact-checking interns combed through this, and we'd to correct a couple of grievous errors in Mrs. Viele's post. First, my personal blog gets about 37 hits a day (assuming that views from my mom count), and DadCentric gets at least twice that. Second, our credibility does not spring from Federated Media alone (although Wal-Mart wouldn't advertise with just anyone). Look at our Press page! (Two words: Fit. Pregnancy.)
So, would-be dadbloggers, read and absorb Anna's lessons. You too can be as successful as the mommybloggers featured in that article's photo! (There's Dooce, and I think that's Finslippy, and...uh...some other mommybloggers.) And don't forget one she didn't mention: have a sense of humor and some perspective about yourself and what you do.





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