The internet is a magical place. Everyone with access to their local public library is able to create their own space and furnish it with whatever takes their fancy.
Two particular things that seem to take a lot of people’s fancy is cats and style-blogs-featuring-photos-of-real-people-on-the-street-looking-like-they-should-be-in-a-magazine, namely The Sartorialist and it’s many homages.
Some crafty individual has taken the conch and decided that surely the best way to fame and fortune is to combine the two, the result is The Catorialist. Taking it’s design cues (as so many do) from the pared down standard ‘I don’t care much for CSS’ blogger template, the catorialst does for cats what the Sartorialist does for fashion – namely featuring beautiful images with minimal description, and encouraging debate and discussion.
File under: I wish I’d thought of that.
The Catorialist
Posted: February 3rd, 2010 | Author: Tom Hyde | Filed under: creative | Tags: blogging, catorialist, cats, sartorialist, style | No Comments »
The Sartorialist is one of the most famous bloggers out there. He has an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time – camera poised to take exquisite street-style photographs.
He’s one of the most re-blogged bloggers in ‘the sphere’, a staple source for fashion writers worldwide. If you are able to grace his URLs you too could secure your place in style history.
Here’s how you do it:
Oh Snap! via Notcot
Posted: July 14th, 2009 | Author: Tom Hyde | Filed under: creative, social media | Tags: blogging, photography, sartorialist | 4 Comments »
So Nikki Finke sold Deadline Hollywood Daily to the Mail Media Corpfor $15m. Good for her.
For me, this is quite significant for blogging and moves the medium closer to magazine publishing; the changing hands of titles for this kind of money is reminiscent of acquisitions in print.
How’s this shift come about? Well, put simply:
- People started blogging
- Publications followed suit
- In this time the people had built up a following and brand to rival the publications
- Publications/media companies decide to buy blogs
To an extent, I think this adds a further degree of authority and credibility to blogging, whilst also showing that the print world is continuing to move to online (even if it is quite slowly).
All publications need do now is sort out their revenue models. But that’s a discussion for another time.
Posted: June 24th, 2009 | Author: Mark Allred | Filed under: social media | Tags: blogging, blogs, magazines, media, print, social media | No Comments »
