Hi, I'm Rachel Hills.
I'm a London-based (via Sydney, Australia) writer, researcher and contributor to publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Girlfriend and more. I'm also writing a book about Gen Y, sex and identity. This is my blog.
I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question to my Ask Rachel column here, send me an email here, connect with me on Twitter here or find out more about my paid work at www.rachelhills.net.
I'm a London-based (via Sydney, Australia) writer, researcher and contributor to publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Girlfriend and more. I'm also writing a book about Gen Y, sex and identity. This is my blog.
I'd love to hear from you. Submit a question to my Ask Rachel column here, send me an email here, connect with me on Twitter here or find out more about my paid work at www.rachelhills.net.
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Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 (via somethingchanged)
Maybe it’s because I, ahem, keep a blog, but I don’t entirely agree with this. It’s true that blogging isn’t the severely cutting edge pastime it was a few years ago (although I’d argue it’s still somewhat “cutting edge” outside the technorati), but I also think that Flickr, Facebook and Twitter – the so called “replacement” mediums – serve entirely different purposes. And thus aren’t really replacements.
Flickr is about, well, images (duh) and Facebook is about staying in touch with friends. Twitter meanwhile, while great for effortless and immediate communication (and while also a pastime I engage in) is by and large too short form to communicate anything with substance, and beyond banal for the poor people reading – particularly if they don’t use the site themselves (ever tried reading through someone else’s list of tweets?). Yes, even more banal than blogs.
I was interested to read of Jason Calcanis’s move to a mailing list, but that’s not exactly cutting edge either. Anyone remember the yahoogroups of the early noughties?
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