All the pretty voices…noise or symphony?
There’s no doubt that we’re in the middle of a media paradigm shift. I’m not sure if I really want to write yet another commentary rallying the rising power of bloggers or the sheer numbers of new participants… all you have to do is open your eyes, and you’ll notice more and more bloggers using the medium to create meaningful, lucrative careers. However, there comes the time where one shouldn’t be just pointing out the obvious, by saying ‘Hey there’s a lot of blogs out there, and I don’t like a lot of them.’ and start asking questions like ‘Why are there so many blogs out there.’ and ‘What can we as a community be doing to improve the dialogue’
This comes to mind as last week Business of Fashion published an article titled Fashion 2.0 | Not all blogs are created equal. Where they critiqued the aggregated content site Inside The Tents:
A perusal of some of the aggregated content on [Inside the Tents] ITT causes one to pause and ask: are these bloggers really offering any unique expertise or vantage point that adds to the fashion dialogue? Some (though not all) of these bloggers appear to be more focused on themselves and on the celebrities in the front row than on the fashions on the runway. Unique opinions are few and far between. [Read more]


