08th Dec 2002
Blogger Photos
A new trend would seem to be afoot. In the last week or so, three bloggers I often read — Nick Denton, Elizabeth Spiers and Jeff Jarvis — have all put new photos of themselves up on their blogs. What is most striking is how utterly unironic all the photos are. Sure, I have a couple of pictures of myself on this blog, but not ones you’d be likely to recognize me from. Nick says that readers want that connection, muttering something about it being the same thing as when newspapers run photos of their columnists. I dunno. Somehow seems to take the fun out of it. I mean, it’s different with Raymi or Moxie, as the former’s often naked and the latter at least occasionally in a bathing suit (note correction below).
(Note to Jeff and Nick: don’t get any bright ideas.)
Is there no mystery left in the blogosphere? I’ll really know it’s more than just a passing fad if the ever-reclusive Peter Maass joins suit.
UPDATE:
Oops, apologies to Moxie for erroneously suggesting she posed in her underwear. As she pointed out in an email, it was naught but an innocent (if “expensive”) bathing suit. Wishful thinking on my part. Peace.
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