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The Most Common Misspellings of The Phoblographer

Chris Gampat
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04/22/2011
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When I started this website, I thought that The Phoblographer was a pretty rad name. To this day, I still do think so. Granted, it took me a day or two to even spell it correctly and say it correctly. The site is almost a year and half old and to this day PR Reps, Marketing folk, readers, photographers, techies, and others mispronounce or misspell the name. Here is a list of some of the best misspellings I’ve read, seen, and heard.

Look and read carefully.

Phoblographer.com: someone else owns that site. I should really buy that domain off of that guy, but we’ve got such a great standing in Google as it is, why bother?

ThePhotoblographer.com: I originally thought of calling the site this, but the name is way too long and doesn’t flow off of the tongue as well as Phoblographer.

In fact, I fondly remember being on the phone with a network that wanted to rent the site and its content where the rep constantly called us by this name until I calmly corrected them. With a very Aussie accent, he said on the phone, “Hardest site to say in the world, mate…”

You can take a guess as to how that negotiation ended…

ThePhotoblogger.com: I see this name hyperlinked across the web all the time in my Google Analytics and WordPress Dashboard giving me incoming traffic. This is perhaps the one that drives me most insane. The most famous person I knew of that did this was Mitch over at Planet5D. He’s a buddy of mine now and I can only be envious of being as big as his site is one day 🙂

TheFroblographer.com: Jared Polin at FroKnowsPhoto.com playfully said this to me at last year’s Photo Plus. In all honesty, he’s a genius because it put a giant smile on my face after being on the floor at 7:30 AM for B&H and then doing coverage for two sites while managing The Phoblographer’s staff that was available on the floor.

Fauxblographer.com: This is one of the more derogatory names for the site and the hard work we put in, and as I’ve run into intentional internet trolls, I’ve learned to deal with them with grace. The person that invented this name has something out for us and questioned our credibility. To be honest, I think they started a competing site that mimics our style almost down to a T but have yet to figure out how to monetize the site or even develop a strong network.

To said competitor, and you know who you are: would you like a cookie? Or maybe a couple, your site could probably use them 🙂

How have you misspelled the site’s name? Let us know in the comments below. And be sure to follow The Phoblographer on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.

With all this said, I appreciate all that you readers have done to keep us alive by clicking out banners and links and making purchases to keep us alive.

Thanks 🙂

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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