Observations from Create Your Own PhotoBlog
Chapter one. In January 1995 Carolyn Burke, a woman involved wit Project Gutenberg, started a personal website. Hey, she had “ruminations” way back then! She wrote about her daily life and gathered an audience. Soon others started doing it and online journals began proliferating all over the place. In 1997 a guy named Dave Winer started Scripting News and it’s still going just like the battery bunny. Let’s see if he really is
there…..http://www.scripting.com/.
Yes, he’s there and he’s chewing on Facebook, politicians and tech people today. He’s almost as old as I am. Maybe he needs to start feeling good as he gets older.
Who’s next? There’s Reid Stott of photodude.com who runs a print gallery from his site. Let’s see….Yes, he is there. And he has some really beautiful prints for sale. http://photodude.com/photos/
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Where are photo blogs going? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Oh, sorry. That’s what happens when I get past five or six pages. I almost went to sleep. This lady is very enthusiastic about photo blogs. She feels they are one of our society’s “most significant evolutionary achievements”. Photographers are enriching the viewer in a way that “a thousand textbooks could not manage”. Pretty good. A thousand textbooks would mean about a million episodes of passing out to me. So I can see her point. But society needs people to learn how to do things, right? Who is going to run the internet if everyone is communing online with pictures? I’m just asking. Every day “millions of people from more than 100 countries visit one or more photo blogs”. They must be doing a detour around my blog or the stats software is not working.
Okay, that’s chapter one. Maybe I can get through this book. Thanks for helping me stay awake.
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