Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Writing a Mildly Annoyed Letter to the New York Times.
Mom-101 — According to Sunday's style section in the New York Times, moms shouldn't be working. At least if you look at the article called Honey Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Building My Brand. I guess it could also have been titled Honey Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Making Ends Meet for Our Family in a Tough Economy but that doesn't seem as enticingly condescending. Also, then it would have to go in the business section and not fashion + style and that would just mess up everything! Author Jennifer Mendelsohn also writes a blog called ...

Sunday Spotlight
No Time For Flash Cards — ... There was an article in the NY Times recently about mommy bloggers and while my rebuttal will never be as eloquent as this one by ...

Highlights from my Weekend. . .
Roni's Weigh — …cause I’m too lazy to write a real post. ;) My weekend started Friday night when @ResourcefulMom pointed out my mug was in the New York Times… Yup, that’s me and my famous computer with the FitBloggin’ sticker. :) The article didn’t mention me at all and it was a little condescending but I’m not going to get into it now. Saturday was SUPER busy. I woke up to the glorious smell of chicken stock and got started making Overnight Chicken Broth Turned Bulgur ...

Marketing to Mommy Bloggers in the New York Times
Hormone-Colored Days — The mommybloggers are once again fodder for America's newspaper of record, but don't look in the business section to read the latest take on online moms because apparently we belong in the style section. *Sigh* ...

The New York Times Article on Mommy Bloggers (and Bloggy Boot Camp)
Mindless Junque — ... I HATE controversy with the intensity of a thousand white hot suns, but I can't ignore this article in the New York Times. Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy Building My Brand ...

And Then There Was The Time I Sounded Like an Ass in the New York Times
Mayhem and Moxie — ... whether Debbie Gibson should really be posing in a bikini for US Weekly.  Or perhaps I’d finally tackle why the Bloggess needs an internship team with me on it. Nothing  I had in mind was serious.  My posts rarely are.  I poke fun.  I entertain.  I write about topics I believe my very small community of readers and I can laugh over and enjoy. And then something I said at a blog conference, known as Bloggy Boot Camp, in Baltimore, Maryland made it into the New York Times. “My husband calls it my expensive hobby,” she said with a ...

Honey, I’m irritated!
sevenclowncircus.com — ... Have you all seen the NY Times article published on Friday about Mom Bloggers? The Bloggy Bootcamp circuit  hosted by my good friends Tiffany and Heather kicked off in Baltimore last week and was the impetus behind the NY Times article titled “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy.  I’m Busy Building My Brand”. If the title of the article is to be believed, then I’m neglecting my children as we speak  in order to record my thoughts. The title upsets me.  The implication in the title and within the article that ...

NY Times Article About Mommy Bloggers
The Secret to Success is Support — ... It’s titled Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy, I am too Busy Building My Brand {we thought long and hard about even linking to it, as even though Tiffany is referred to AND quoted, SITS has no link, plus, the last thing we want to do is give them page views.  BUT, you deserve to form an opinion with all the info.} ...

Mommy Wars Rage in the News: Strollers vs Slings, Journalists vs Mom Bloggers, Breast Milk Gouda, More
Mommy Poppins - Get more out of NYC with kids — ... from the mommy blogo- and twitto-sphere. Perhaps it was the inflammatory headline, " Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy Building My Brand ." or the even more infuriating illustration (above) depicting women glued to their devices, ignoring their angry mini-men or just the general impression that these businesses are somehow less legit because they are being pursued by moms rather than men, while others skimmed over the lede and saw the respectful reporting on a growing and powerful medium. Would You Like Some Breast Milk Cheese On Your Burger? Reactions to the news that ...

Honey, Don’t Bother The Gray Lady. She’s Busy Angering Mommybloggers.
Strollerderby — ... The New York Times set off a firestorm of criticism in the blogosphere this weekend with a snarky little piece titled, “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand“. ...

Can't we all just get along?
DC Metro Moms — ...  The New York Times visited the recent Bloggy Boot Camp in Baltimore, and published this snarky story on Sunday. The Mom Bloggers went crazy. CRAZY. They are writing letters to the editor and irate blog posts. The nerve! The patronizing tone! The ...

On Blogging and the New York Times Article
In the Trenches of Mommyhood.... — ... So yesterday I missed the fallout from the New York Times article entitled, "Honey, Don't Bother Mommy.  I'm Too Busy Building My Brand".  How ironic. ...

An Open Letter to the New York Times About Mom Bloggers, Women Writers & the Universe
PunditMom — ... Was it really necessary to write a story on a professional blogging conference with the title Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy.  She’s Busy Building Her Brand? The headline alone drips with mocking condescension that says to the world that it’s perfectly acceptable to continue to belittle women for the exact same things that men are doing in the online world today. ...

I give up
Ittybits & Pieces — ... This network of computer connections has lead to some extra income for me. So I fit the stereotype Jennifer Mendelsohn has teased out of her story on a blogging conference she wrote about for the New York Times ...

What Type of Mommy Blogger are You?
Type-A Mom — ... Are you a mom who blogs? I'm sure that, by now, you've heard of the now-infamous New York Times article written about Bloggy Boot Camp. You know, the one with the condescending tone that slammed mommy bloggers across the board - even though the author herself identified as a mom who blogs. ...

Mommy Bloggers Rise Up
MomLogic — ... is big business. What was once a place where lonely mothers gathered online to commiserate has become a serious endeavor with some bloggers raking in real money. Jennifer Mendelsohn, herself a blogger, penned a story in the Sunday Times about the rise of the mommy blogger and the advertisers who love them. Advertisers see a market to be tapped: moms who shop. Bloggers, meanwhile, see that their musings have financial muscle. Eager to get in on the action, these at-home entrepreneurs attend blogging seminars to learn how to make their sites more profitable and try to figure ...

It must be that time of the month: I have strong opinions
Frogs in my formula — ... Yowsers. Have you read this article and all the irate responses to it? If you didn’t, don’t worry. I’ll tell you everything you need to know. ...

Does the world see moms the same way the New York Times does?
PhD in Parenting — ... Jennifer Mendelsohn wrote an article in the New York Times on mom bloggers, called Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand. I thought about writing a parody about journalists in response to it. But then I reconsidered. I realized that I do not need to diminish others in order to order to prove my own worth. ...

A Blog of One’s Own
ChildWild — ... My corner of the blogosphere has been in an uproar over the New York Times article scathingly titled, “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” ...

Hot Sex! Fast Cars!
DadCentric — ... ) sent me a copy of her magnum opus The Mominatrix's Guide To Sex: A No-Surrender Advice Book for Naughty Moms. That very day, I also received a copy of Mark Bechtel's He Crashed Me So I Crashed Him Back: The True Story of The Year The King, Jaws, Earnhardt, and The Rest of NASCAR's Feudin', Fightin', Good Ol' Boys Put Stock Car Racing On The Map . (I sometimes wish I got paid by the letter.)  Before I get into those books, however, I feel compelled to say something about the recent New York Times article about mommybloggers (or bloggers who are also moms, or ...

Don’t Bother Mommy, She’s Under Attack
LA Moms Blog — ... Sunday's New York Times article "Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy Building My Brand," bothered me in so many ways. First, the headline (which I know the writer didn't write, but still) makes it sound like all of us mom bloggers are going around telling our kids to shut up and go away so we can send messages on Twitter. And the graphic illustrates this with extreme contempt. Yes, I'm working hard to build my brand, but in no way am I neglecting my children. I make them three meals a day. I take them to and pick them up from school, ...

"Honey, Don't Bother Mommy. I'm Too Busy With My Blog Building My Brand."
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Mommy Blogger Nation and the NY Times
Featured Blog Posts - twitter moms: the influential moms network — For those of you who haven't heard about this article yet, I feel compelled to give my two cents worth on this subject. There was an article published in the NY Times called Honey, Don't Bother Mommy - I'm trying to build my Brand. Click here to read the full article. ...

MommyBloggers… Has it become the beast that can’t be fed?
Triple Venti — ... I say “think” because, I don’t know if it was the pithy title that set the mob over the edge, but the New York Times article “Honey Don’t Bother Mommy.  I’m too busy building my brand.” certainly got a section of the MommyBloggers circling their wagons.  The funny part is, for the most part, the article describes quite well, how MommyBloggers HAVE in fact built their brand… how as a collective they have become a force to be reckoned with (more on that shortly). ...

Mommy Bloggers and Their Depiction in the New York Times
Member Blog Posts - Mom Bloggers Club: Connect With Over 10,000 Mom Bloggers — At first I wasn’t going to chime in after reading Sunday’s the New York Times article “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” by Jennifer Mendelsohn. Then I read articles responding to it by other bloggers I respect and the many thought-provoking comments that were left. The mommy blogging word in is a tizzy, there’s even a Facebook page set up to protest the New York Times. The more I read, the more I found myself pondering how I would respond, so I figured I might as well put my thoughts on my blog. After all, that’s who I ...

Click: It's Mommy Time(s)
Silicon Valley Moms Blog — ... This is not about mommy taking off time -- for herself. This is about mommy taking on Times -- the New York Times -- after its recent controversial article about mommy bloggers.. ...

Someone is 35 today and it ain’t me…
Mayhem and Moxie — ... .  I’d love to be able to immortalize her in the wiki. Think of how cool it would be to type in Francesca B and her whole life story and out of context quotes pop up?  Everyone could add his or her stories and she was just quoted in the New York Times!  The possibilites are endless. ...

Weekly Links, Now With More Sleep
ChildWild — ... – The New York Times set off a firestorm of criticism in the blogosphere this weekend with a snarky little piece titled, “ Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand “. ...

little plastic castle, or the what the f*ck ever happened to Liz Phair?
cribchronicles.com — ... media on the subject of mothers and bloggers and bears, oh my, i’ve realized that a part of me pines for that suddenly historic epoch: the 1990s. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ the 90s were an ugly decade, i thought while they were happening. perms and big hair and the square, boxy shapes left over from the 80s hung on far too long into the decade. i wore a lot of army boots with flowy skirts then, plus thrift-shop shirts with the sleeves cut off at the shoulders and those giant, scratchy sweaters from Guatemala. my hair ...

Best of Web: Moms Who Blog Edition
ChildWild — ... First, the New York Times dismissed the entire genre and the thousands of moms who do it with the snarky and now-infamous, “Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand.” I already had ...

Who Are You Calling Mommy?
Deep South Moms — ... I think the word "Mommy" gets slammed a lot. It seems to have a treacly undertone that people don't take seriously. And before you think I'm late to the New York Times mommy blogger rebuttal, let me assure you that this post is not about that rag. It seems to me that "Mommy" is often coupled with "just," as in "just a mommy." Even mothers use it self-deprecatingly ourselves. Often in an atmosphere of other adults, say a cocktail party or office open house, when asked about ourselves, we look to the floor, shrug, and say, "Oh, I'm ...

Mommyblogging in the media
Busy Mom Blog — ... (how very salacious) is the latest entry (that I know of) since the New York Times' Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand. ...

Just Don't Call Me a Tech Blogger!
This Full House — ... idea to change from a hosted blog site, to another, before backing up your archives, der!) the most important take away (ready?) is that the words I write (or, choose to publish) really don't matter, unless I've touched someone, in a positive, or negative way. Hopefully, in a positive way, because, well, I don't know of anyone who blogs to feel bad about stuff, on purpose, nor would I want to. Still.  Should it make a difference, how I choose to approach (i.e. respond to) this whole mommyblogging business? Pardon my Jersey, but ...

10 Reasons Mommy Bloggers Deserve Condescension From The New York Times
The Girl Revolution — ... The New York Times took a decidedly condescending tone towards Mommy Bloggers in their piece Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand. ...

Please Don't Drink & Blog
Deep South Moms — ... As a Mommy blogger, have you ever had an incident that turned you off to blogging?  This blogging stuff started out innocently enough with postings of our adorable kids and accompanying anecdotes.  Then, with seemingly no transition, we started getting advertising on our blogs and writing about “issues.”  Before you know it, the Mommy bloggers are getting slammed in the New York Times and being lambasted for being self-involved “mean girls” who ignore our kids.  Yet, I digress.  The overall reception of Mommy Bloggers is a topic for a whole other blog. ...