This is a completely unedited thing that I was going to write for the newswire, but I'm still playing with it.
SG Newswire, Opinion vs. Fact, and Celebrity Blogging
There has been a growing debate that I would like to draw your attention to in the News Group that needs global input because it goes to the nature of what blogging is, what this News wire should be, what it is currently. One of the most amazing things about Suicide Girls is the independent blogs from each of the SGs and each one of us. We gain insight into each other, go through past entries of people to see if a horrible incident worked out, how finals/thesis ended, and we look at our trials and successes in a personal way. Lovers have met, people have had babies, and all of these things are supported are critiqued in a public way. Some choose not to take part in it, but this thing we now have is the direct result of all of the independent people contributing their own unique world onto the boards, in their blogs, and on the message boards. This has garnered SG a nomination of a Webby, not to mention praise in the media, and from the community of subscribers.
Blogging has allowed us insight into total strangers that become friends, in some distant electronic sense. We come across others blogs and wonder what they are going through.
Seanbonner passed me a link to Fred Dursts blog, and the sense I get from it is depth in lieu of intensity (and the fact that he digs on Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, and Mazzy Star). so here i am. once again writing in my blog. i don't write in here just to feel connected and to be heard. i write these things because it is truly helping me deal with things that are fogging up my thinking process. i feel like i can come in here and release anything that my fingers are willing to type regardless of who will read it, ignore it, absorb it, or trash it. there is so much freedom. not only do i know it to be true, but i cannot stop reading your words and seeing that you know it to be true as well. the connection between total strangers aligning with one another through the passion to express themselves is fucking amazing!! and i am referring mostly to the positive side of things. yes i do read all the comments and i am very overwhelmed by your ability to inspire in ways i never knew i was aware of. times have changed in a big way. you people are so on it.You get a sense that there is this caring person coming to terms and insight of the world around him, around his son, and around the industry. Sometimes they are simplistic, but the are also genunine.
Boing Boing has posted the blog of a movie actor that is allegedly either Jon Cuasak or Owen Wilson.
My life is boring and not worth writing about, except for my knowledge of one thing. So this blog will focus on that thing. It is, for lack of a better word, celebrity. I stumbled onto it by a series of chance events. Suffice it to say, I can tell you what it's like to see your picture on the magazine rack every now and again when you pay for groceries. And that'll have to suffice. I'd like this to be the sort of account afforded only by anonymity. And it that happens, if my identity were revealed, I'd quickly be selling grapefruits -- instead of paying $14 a pop to eat them -- on Sunset Blvd.
First, I will address the first two things you're wondering, if you're like most people: 1. What's it like to be famous? 2. Do you know Paris Hilton? [/quote While a bit more intense and rhetorical than Dursts blog, the sense of a confessional, or of genuine thoughts on various matter seem to illicit response not because of the level of fame of the blogger, but because theres a certain amount of depth with putting your thoughts out there. Sometimes their woefully misinformed, or even dated, or really, really uninteresting, but theyre put out there for critique. There has been criticisms of SGs Newswire as being to personal and the editors (including myself, obviously) are having an interesting time negotiating opinion with newslike whether we want something like Gawker or Slashdot.
So, as an editor, I pose this quandary to you, the community.
SG Newswire, Opinion vs. Fact, and Celebrity Blogging
There has been a growing debate that I would like to draw your attention to in the News Group that needs global input because it goes to the nature of what blogging is, what this News wire should be, what it is currently. One of the most amazing things about Suicide Girls is the independent blogs from each of the SGs and each one of us. We gain insight into each other, go through past entries of people to see if a horrible incident worked out, how finals/thesis ended, and we look at our trials and successes in a personal way. Lovers have met, people have had babies, and all of these things are supported are critiqued in a public way. Some choose not to take part in it, but this thing we now have is the direct result of all of the independent people contributing their own unique world onto the boards, in their blogs, and on the message boards. This has garnered SG a nomination of a Webby, not to mention praise in the media, and from the community of subscribers.
Blogging has allowed us insight into total strangers that become friends, in some distant electronic sense. We come across others blogs and wonder what they are going through.
Seanbonner passed me a link to Fred Dursts blog, and the sense I get from it is depth in lieu of intensity (and the fact that he digs on Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, and Mazzy Star). so here i am. once again writing in my blog. i don't write in here just to feel connected and to be heard. i write these things because it is truly helping me deal with things that are fogging up my thinking process. i feel like i can come in here and release anything that my fingers are willing to type regardless of who will read it, ignore it, absorb it, or trash it. there is so much freedom. not only do i know it to be true, but i cannot stop reading your words and seeing that you know it to be true as well. the connection between total strangers aligning with one another through the passion to express themselves is fucking amazing!! and i am referring mostly to the positive side of things. yes i do read all the comments and i am very overwhelmed by your ability to inspire in ways i never knew i was aware of. times have changed in a big way. you people are so on it.You get a sense that there is this caring person coming to terms and insight of the world around him, around his son, and around the industry. Sometimes they are simplistic, but the are also genunine.
Boing Boing has posted the blog of a movie actor that is allegedly either Jon Cuasak or Owen Wilson.
My life is boring and not worth writing about, except for my knowledge of one thing. So this blog will focus on that thing. It is, for lack of a better word, celebrity. I stumbled onto it by a series of chance events. Suffice it to say, I can tell you what it's like to see your picture on the magazine rack every now and again when you pay for groceries. And that'll have to suffice. I'd like this to be the sort of account afforded only by anonymity. And it that happens, if my identity were revealed, I'd quickly be selling grapefruits -- instead of paying $14 a pop to eat them -- on Sunset Blvd.
First, I will address the first two things you're wondering, if you're like most people: 1. What's it like to be famous? 2. Do you know Paris Hilton? [/quote While a bit more intense and rhetorical than Dursts blog, the sense of a confessional, or of genuine thoughts on various matter seem to illicit response not because of the level of fame of the blogger, but because theres a certain amount of depth with putting your thoughts out there. Sometimes their woefully misinformed, or even dated, or really, really uninteresting, but theyre put out there for critique. There has been criticisms of SGs Newswire as being to personal and the editors (including myself, obviously) are having an interesting time negotiating opinion with newslike whether we want something like Gawker or Slashdot.
So, as an editor, I pose this quandary to you, the community.
I keep writing thoughts down, and then erasing them, because it really a quandry. I have not ever posted to Newswire, because at least in my fragile little mind, it means what is in the News that the community at large should hear or be aware of. I would not post in it, unless I could keep my personal opinion out of it. It is one of the things in the media that I loathe is bias. Granted this is on a smaller scale, and in our own slice of heaven, but none the less, opinions....I will say belong in the blogs. I have in the past posted news links and the rant to go along with it, because in my world that is where commentary belongs. My job as a citizen is not to report it, but to react. **shrug** If that makes any sense.
I wish you luck on this.
~beauty