BLOOD's “weblogs: a history and perspective”

“As advertisements creep onto banana peels, attach themselves to paper cup sleeves, and interrupt our ATM transactions, we urgently need to cultivate forms of self-expression in order to counteract our self-defensive numbness and remember what it is to be human.”

Weblog's have created this unusual platform that shaped our cultures idea of writing in todays generation - while the art of print won't be lost, in order to grow, we must accept change.

Weblogs allow the consumers and the audience to interchange roles, while the consumer and audience also has their own creations published for the public. Now, who has perfected blogging? How does someone create a following over 1k maybe more? Blogs present "alternative views" and "thoughtful commentary" not found on day to day news. Bloggers pick and choose what they will talk about, and what they feel is worth attaching an external link too. The platform for fashion networks seems endless since everything is becoming electronic, it is easier for fashionista's to find their favorite icon - model or celebrity - follow all of their social media, and find out more about this person then you even planned to find out.

When MySpace died, and Facebook was born ...

the first major difference was the ability to TAG yourself and other people in pictures... this moved us past a "top 8" and onto a more personal way to share events and easily post pictures to a friend's wall. Another milestone Tom neglected at first on MySpace was the ability to build and join NETWORKS - Facebook now organizes your list of friends into groups: work, school, etc.

In the fashion industry you wait for that final moment when the magazine is freshly pressed, and the smell of ink is still overwhelming when model's tear through the pages to see what photo's did and didn't come out right. Instead of that torturous wait, almost all modeling agencies utilize the new technology in order to immediately upload images to the internet. A constant feed of FORD and IMG's latest models are available at anytime. Social networking unties multiple blogging communities with alike interests; networking also benefits up-and-coming models with the ease of advertising their presence in the fashion industry and creating a good rapport with readers.