12 May 2008...1:02 pm
What are they talking about on Amatomu?
I had a look at Amatomu, and the biggest thing in the Zeitgeist, that stuck out a mile, was mothers day.
I was curious, because I’ve always regarded Mothers Day as an American thing, and not very big in South Africa, but there it was on Amatomu, very big.
So I wondered just where people were talking about it.
It wasn’t in Life, where I looked first. No, in Life what they were talking about was christmas.
(Christmas? Why Christmas? In May?)
Next I looked in Religion, where the big topic was pentecost.
In Business — I thought of the greetings card industry — but no, it weas hillary clinton
No, mothers day was big in News and Politics, that’s where.
Now I realise that blogs in one category might have individual posts in another category, but this was very strange. Can anyone solve the mystery?
Just what is so newsworthy and political about Mothers Day?
2 Comments
12 May 2008 at 3:48 pm
ha ha cool post, I guess its hard to pin a category on a blogger
13 May 2008 at 12:43 am
I suppose that they view it as “News”. I would be surprised if they saw it as falling in the category of “Politics” (although the Sunday Slimes in the old Safrica used to always introduce elements of gender politics into the day). I’m not too surprised at it being seen as “News” - I suspect that businesses and the news media have made it a newsworthy event.
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