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What Does a Blogger Look Like?

Apparently, when Canada.com needed a photo of “a blogger” to illustrate an article on business blogging, they reached into their vast and unending supply of “photos of people blogging” and came up with a photo of me.

The (not particularly flattering) photo was taken a year and a half ago, when The Montreal Gazette did a story on Montreal bloggers. They sent a photographer to our house to get some photos of Martine and I going at it, so to speak. (The Gaz article is no longer available because, well, that’s the way the Gazette does things – or doesn’t do things, as it were.)

So as not to confuse people, Canada.com cropped Martine out of the photo for the business blogging article. As if no one will also ask “why is that guy sitting on the floor?”

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13 thoughts on “What Does a Blogger Look Like?”

  1. Yeah, that’s a blogger all right! Nose pressed up against the monitor, typing away! All living in your mom’s basement!

  3. The old fashioned way: bullshit. In particular, other people’s bullshit — like implying I’m some kind of business blogger.

  5. I feel like I got a liposuction — I was more than20 pounds heavier in that picture than I am today. Can I schedule a re-shoot? ;-)

  6. I was retouched – they whitened my teeth in my magazine pic. I feel such a fraud.

  7. Geez. if they’re gonna use your photo as the sterotypical “Blogger” – You’d think they’d include your link as… that’s what it’s all about!!! Effectively, you are in the photo but out of the picture. (At least they could have referred to you by your Blog-entity)

    BTW, Tara who writes HorsePigCow and who got top billing in the article’s links has a lot of photos on her site and most show her looking decidely less bloggish than you… ummm, not sure if I’m complimenting you or her.

  8. congrats, Ed~! you seem to be, like me, receiving your “15 minutes of fame” one minute at a time… :-)

  9. The title reminds me of the first time my wife met those blogue people. We got into the car after the party and she turned to me and said “They’re different then I thought.” I asked how so. “Well… they were pretty cool. They were our age and intellectual. They weren’t freaks.”

  13. Don’t go getting all “Pink” on us (as in Pink is the New Blog) and moving to L.A…. (hahaha – as if!)

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