Sarah Austin.
News, comments and interviews around micro fame online. Pop17 is a two-to-three minute daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity. Who are these new influentials? What are their stories? How have they leveraged their online successes? These are the kinds of questions we will explore everyday at Pop17. Grab an RSS feed! Or you can find me on Twitter and YouTube.
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Redefining ‘friend’ requests…
… if you’ve figured out a way in which blogging is not self-important…I’d really like to hear it? Seriously.We’ll know the Internet has matured when when we synonymize weblogging with writing. Is there a way in which “writing”is not self-important?
Sure. Refrigerator repair manuals and textbooks exist next to diaries and magazines and Supreme Court opinions.
Once more for the cheap seats: it’s a web-log. It’s simply a record of things one chooses to put on the Internet, with as many purposes as when we apply ink to paper.
