The Blog Herald logo

  • News
  • Features
  • Guides
  • Editorial
  • Interviews
  • Blog Tips
  • More
    • General
    • Blog Conferences
    • Contact Us
    • Terms & Privacy
    • Disclaimer

Fake birth blogger is reminder that not everyone online is truthful

June 18, 2009 by Andy Merrett

The story of a woman who blogged about the pregnancy and birth of her terminally ill baby, later for it to be discovered that the whole story was a fabrication, broke last week in the Chicago Tribune.

A naturally emotive subject, it attracted a huge number of visitors who sent messages and gifts to the woman who identified herself as either “B” or “April’s Mom”.

Her blog was linked to by high-profile parenting blogs and, apparently, advertisers were also looking at getting involved on the site. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: baby, Beccah Beushausen, blogger, emotion, fake, trust, truth

Why Typos and Factual Errors Could be Killing Your Blog Readership

January 29, 2009 by Easton Ellsworth

gooseGrade HomepageAre you a stickler for spelling, grammar and syntax? Have you ever turned away from a blog or website because you found a factual error?

gooseGrade Survey: People Care About Typos and Factual Mistakes on Blogs and Social Media

Do your blog readers care whether you can spell Barack Obama?

A 2008 survey conducted by gooseGrade, a crowdsourcing editing tool for bloggers and social media content creators, tried to find out how much consumers of new media content really care about typos and factual mistakes. (See TechCrunch’s database entry on gooseGrade.)

The survey had 175 respondents and resulted in data such as the following: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Blogging, facts, gooseGrade, grammar, spelling, truth, writing

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Top Posts

  • 30 Blog Disclaimer Examples
  • 6 Domain Buying Strategies to Skyrocket Your Digital Revenues
  • Adult Content, Your Site and the Law
  • 3 Ways to Make Your Blogging Practices Highly Sustainable
  • 15 Great Sites for Legal, Free Content
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

The Blog Herald © 2021 Splashpress Media