So got my first comment on the blog a few days ago. Very exciting. It came from an editor I know, who noted that essentially what I was doing was blogging about blogging. He astutely called the whole project very “met a”. It’s true, of course, though I would argue that the bulk of bloggers and others in the “peep” culture such as reality tv participants are also motivated by and conforming to the rules and expectations of a peep world, just less obviously.


In Joshua Gamson’s book Freaks Talk Back about the workings of talk shows, a talk show producer notes that it isn’t necessary to encourage the guests to act a certain way for a certain show. They already know how they’re supposed to act and come into it fully prepared to act that way because they’ve seen the show and they know that’s what’s expected of them. I feel the same way. I’ve seen the show and I know what I’m supposed to do.


But so far I’ve had a hard time doing it. I happy to blog about abstract ideas and emerging peep trends but I’ve been more reticent about blogging about my everyday life and feelings – which is, of course, part of this project. Hopefully once I get used to being a regular blogger, that’ll change and stuff will just start spewing out of me. Gotta train myself to be more like the talk show participant who doesn’t think about the performance they’re going to put on, but just goes out there and does it.