It’s nice to see another example of a casual hobby blog turning into a globally popular phenomenon and breaking into other media formats – this time it’s Christian Lander’s massively popular ‘Stuff White People Like’ blog, which started as an amusing joke between friends a little over 18 months ago – and has now seen its author do numerous US tours, appear on prime time talk shows and release a much-anticipated book.
The blog does exactly what you’d expect, featuring over a hundred short comic posts titled after all the things that ‘white people like’ – from ‘coffee’, ‘architecture’, or ‘Michel Gondry’ right through to ‘music piracy’, ‘black music that black people don’t listen to anymore’, ‘Facebook,’ and ‘hummus’.
Anyway the whole thing…
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Wired has this week published an excellent essay about the changes we have seen in the blogosphere in recent years, with the central premise being that the blog is now ‘dead’. That is to say that the time of true blogging, in the sense of a DIY non-commercial method of mass communication that offered the levelest playing field for all voices alike, has well and truly passed.
The Times online responded with the more moderate view that blogging has merely changed, though this view seems a little superficial when one considers the degree of fundamental difference between modern web 2.0 blogging – and the ‘old school’ approach of four or five years ago.
The Wired article is pretty straightforward in its assessment of…
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