Australian IT - Blogging confuses Britain (Correspondents in London, SEPTEMBER 28, 2005)
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Blogging confuses Britain
Correspondents in London
SEPTEMBER 28, 2005
At the risk of being accused of “pommy bashing” I say “so what” to this article. It just doesn’t surprise me that people who know all about networking the news if they find a couple having sex in a park or recording their mates bashing some poor innocent victim wouldn’t have a clue about anything meaningful that is happening in the world let alone know about blogging.
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PROPONENTS of the latest web trends were have been warned that the rest of the world may not have a clue what they are talking about.
A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers - often seen as barometers of popular trends - found that nearly 90 per cent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 per cent had never heard of blogging.
“When I asked the panel whether people were talking about blogging, they thought I meant dogging,” said Sarah Carter, the planning director at ad firm DDB London.
Dogging is the phenomenon of watching couples have sex in semi-secluded places such as out-of-town car parks. News of such events are often spread on web sites or by using mobile phone text messages.