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The Bloggernacle or Bloggernacle Choir is a name that has been adopted by the LDS blogging community to describe the Mormon portion of the blogosphere. It was created as a play on words of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. An individual LDS blogger is sometimes referred to as a bloggernacker, nacker, naccer or bloggern. History of Bloggernacle On March 23, 2004, due to , it came to the attention of the Mormon blogging community that the Jewish and Catholic blogging communities had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled a writer at the prominent
LDS blog Times and Seasons sought to remedy this situation and asked for suggestions for a name. A reader posting under the name "Grasshopper" quickly suggested "Bloggernacle Choir", the shortened version of which gained wide approval. "Bloggernacle" is a term that has been used commonly by most LDS bloggers ever since. See also - St. Blog's Parish - Name adopted by Catholic blogging community.
- jBlog - Name adopted by Jewish blogging community
Indices In the media - , 5 March 2005, “Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs”, Debra Nussbaum Cohen
- , 18 November 2005, "A weblog full of 'tiny dramas in Mormon lives' has a bigger drama going on behind the scenes", Peggy Fletcher Stack
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