I'm proud to be a blogger. But gosh, we have taken some stick in the news and media over the last few weeks, especially around the emergence of the SA male prostitute blog (would link to it, but unlike others I'm not anonymous and may be up for prosecution one day) . Patricia de Lille and David Bullard have also thrown their hats into this ring (not the prostitution ring that is).

But man, I love what Bullard is doing. He is holding up a big, fat mirror up to the blogging community and asking us damn serious (often clad in the usual Bullard sardonic tone) questions about who we are and what we do on this public forum.

When I look at the narrative pulse of the South African blogopshere, and how it is eating away at itself from the inside, I see Bullard's role being one that uncovers the often farcical nature of what we do in this space, challenges the inward-focussed "nepotism" that occurs and leaves space for someone to step up to the plate and bring some common sense to what we do.