August 18th, 2008
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A few weeks back, former Gawker editor Emily Gould revealed the story of her rise and fall from blogging micro-fame in a 8000 word New York Times Magazine cover story –
One of the strangest and most enthralling aspects of personal blogs is just how intensely personal they can be. I’m talking “specific details about someone’s S.T.D.’s” personal, “my infertility treatments” personal. There are nongynecological overshares, too: “My dog has cancer” overshares, “my abusive relationship” overshares.
It’s easy to draw parallels between what’s going on online and what’s going on in the rest of our media: the death of scripted TV, the endless parade of ordinary, heavily made-up faces that become vaguely familiar to us as they grin through their 15 minutes of reality-show fame. No wonder we’re ready to confess our innermost thoughts to everyone: we’re constantly being shown that the surest route to recognition is via humiliation in front of a panel of judges.
August 18th, 2008 |
Posted in Culture, Social Media
| Tagged with Blogging, Chris Messina, Emily Gould, fred Wilson, Gawker, Josh Harris, Mathew Ingram, Microfame, Oversharing, Tara Hunt, We Live In Public |
August 1st, 2008
Chris Messina and Tara Hunt not only co-founded social media agency Citizen Agency and helped start the coworking movement, they also shared a very public romantic relationship for more than two years, until they had an equally public break-up (Chris and Tara).
Berniece Yeung explores their relationship in San Fransisco Magazine — “So Open It Hurts” —
In a world not known for its epic romances, ChrisandTara used to be Web 2.0’s version of Brangelina. They lived together, worked at adjoining desks, finished each other’s sentences, guided each other’s dreams. Personality-wise, they were yin meets yang meets a whole lot of Venus and Mars. But in many other ways, they were two pieces of the same puzzle. Ultimately, the core tenet of open-source culture is that the sum is exponentially greater than the disparate parts—and the same could be said of Hunt and Messina’s union. In both work and love, they pushed each other to thrust the ideals of open source, including transparency and collaboration, into real life. In just two years, through the coworking movement and myriad other projects, the ripple effects of their partnership could be seen around the globe.
August 1st, 2008 |
Posted in Culture, Social Media
| Tagged with Berniece Yeung, Chris Messina, Flickr, relationships, San Fransisco Magazine, So Open It Hurts, Social Media, Tata Hunt, The-Long-Tail-of-Pain, Twitter |
