Boarding Area's Fall
Aug 26, 2014, 8:07 am
#136
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I do find it interesting, however, that upgrd.com has photos of each blogger prominent on their page, while at boardingarea you have to dig deep to get a look at the blogger...if there is a photo at all. I wonder if there is a requirement to be photogenic to be a upgrd blogger.
Aug 26, 2014, 8:56 am
#137
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Now now, let's not be unkind.
I do find it interesting, however, that upgrd.com has photos of each blogger prominent on their page, while at boardingarea you have to dig deep to get a look at the blogger...if there is a photo at all. I wonder if there is a requirement to be photogenic to be a upgrd blogger.
I do find it interesting, however, that upgrd.com has photos of each blogger prominent on their page, while at boardingarea you have to dig deep to get a look at the blogger...if there is a photo at all. I wonder if there is a requirement to be photogenic to be a upgrd blogger.
A stylistic choice to do that rather than photos. Can't say I care at all.
Aug 26, 2014, 10:00 am
#138
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Images (of a sort) of most everyone at BA: http://boardingarea.com/our-bloggers/.
A stylistic choice to do that rather than photos. Can't say I care at all.
A stylistic choice to do that rather than photos. Can't say I care at all.
Aug 26, 2014, 10:11 am
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haha no, I just always felt blogging should be more personal. I've always asked all the bloggers to have a photo, if they are comfortable with it, so their readers know who they are if they meet at an event sometime.
Aug 26, 2014, 10:44 am
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Aug 26, 2014, 11:27 am
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Lol, these are the snowmen I was referring to:
They remind me of the evil snowmen from that Dr. Who episode for some reason.
Maybe they all have black or Asian heritage?
Originally Posted by mcc235
haha no, I just always felt blogging should be more personal. I've always asked all the bloggers to have a photo, if they are comfortable with it, so their readers know who they are if they meet at an event sometime.
Aug 26, 2014, 11:51 am
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So if they add some minorities that also pimp the same affiliate links, parrot the same "amazing deal alerts", and censor negative comments...that would make it better?
Aug 29, 2014, 12:43 am
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Noticed this week that BA.de, the German version of BA, soft launched. Oh boy, does that read like crap. YHBU is basically google translate of English with some sections so wrongly translated you really doubt the author knows the language. Then we have VF360° with 3-4 writers. Basically the usual regurgitation of current buzz (with no HT at all) but it is evident that writing is none of the writers real strength.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
Aug 29, 2014, 6:52 am
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Noticed this week that BA.de, the German version of BA, soft launched. Oh boy, does that read like crap. YHBU is basically google translate of English with some sections so wrongly translated you really doubt the author knows the language. Then we have VF360° with 3-4 writers. Basically the usual regurgitation of current buzz (with no HT at all) but it is evident that writing is none of the writers real strength.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
Aug 29, 2014, 9:14 am
#147
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Noticed this week that BA.de, the German version of BA, soft launched. Oh boy, does that read like crap. YHBU is basically google translate of English with some sections so wrongly translated you really doubt the author knows the language. Then we have VF360° with 3-4 writers. Basically the usual regurgitation of current buzz (with no HT at all) but it is evident that writing is none of the writers real strength.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
The rest of the space is filled with LHflyers blogposts in English. Nice.
Aug 29, 2014, 11:34 am
#148
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Ok, Oliver2002, you made me laugh. The German writing sucks? The writing in English on Boarding Area is almost universally horrible, ungrammatical and (sometimes) even incoherent and, no, I don't just mean that certain Atlanta-centric blog. Sentences run on, they don't use periods. Non-sentence sentences. What's this possessive thing with gerunds, and what's a gerund anyway? I try to look past it all for the occasional nugget.
Aug 29, 2014, 1:19 pm
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Ok, Oliver2002, you made me laugh. The German writing sucks? The writing in English on Boarding Area is almost universally horrible, ungrammatical and (sometimes) even incoherent and, no, I don't just mean that certain Atlanta-centric blog. Sentences run on, they don't use periods. Non-sentence sentences. What's this possessive thing with gerunds, and what's a gerund anyway? I try to look past it all for the occasional nugget.
I'm not going to comment on other blogs, but I can assure you that the utmost attention is paid to the quality of the (English) English on my particular patch.
By all means come and have a look
. I may have limited appeal to the Americans out there, but I do aim to give a coherent and irritation-free read. I also promise to keep stories about faeces to an absolute minimum.