Friday, November 10, 2006

Top 7 reasons why Chinese bloggers don't like to be called "Boke"

I found an interesing thing during the past Chinese Blogger Conference,amost every foreinger who konw Chinese very well,called us Boke(博客) in Chinese.Boke is one of the Chinese names of blog,however,serious bloggers don't like it at all,they even hate this foolish name!

Why we hate this name?
  1. Nobody defined an official Chinese name for blog and blogger.
    There are many different callings except "Boke",like "网志"(directly tranlated form "web log"),"部落阁"(popular in Taiwan),ect.
  2. "Boke" was named by Fangxingdong
    Fang ,founder of Bokee.com,is an important peoson in the history Chinese Blogosphere,it is he who firstly attract public attention on Blog during 2004~2005.However,bloggers(expeciall IT bloggers) don't like him very much,because of his strange and nasty logic on promoting the concept of Blogging.
  3. This word will be associated with plagiarizing.
    Im not saying that so called bloggers will not do plagiarze,but most Boke do!And they will never give you a link or trackback or email for plagiarzing.They don't konw anything about CC at all.
  4. Those who I dislike claimed themselves boke.
    Yes,a lot of Boke are posting meaningless or immoral articles or pictures from time to time.
  5. Boke confuse Blogger and Blog and Blogging
    Quite funny to tell you that in Chinese,"Boke" combines the meanings of Blogger&Blog&Blogging.When you want to tranlsate “A blogger is blogging a blog” into Chinese,that is "Boke boke boke"(“博客博客博客”).via
  6. Boke is a culture,nasty culture.
    We notice that some well-known(or "standard") boke is famous for their sex experence(muzi mei) or narcissistic act (furong jiejie).we disdain their status by using the same title
  7. We are serious bloggers
    We think that by claiming ourselves as "blogger" can help to differentiate the real bloggers with other weirdo.

thank nikewong for helpping me translate this post :)