"But seriously, if there’s a trend in Life’s selections it seems to be toward commercialization. Most of the big photoblogs have ads. They have slick designs. They’re edited by teams of writers. You know the ones. The Picture Show, Lightbox, In-Focus, PDN, NYT Lens, etc… Yeah, there are still some great mom-and-pop one person photoblogs out there but I think Bryan Formhals’ prediction is slowly coming to fruition. The general shift is toward institutions and away from personal journals. And as that shift is happening, personal journaling seems to be giving way to retweets and tumblr links. Instead of offering original material, many blogs just bat around existing stuff. And rebat. So personal journals are taking it from both ends."
B: Institutionalized (via photographsonthebrain)
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