Thursday, May 12, 2011

Links à la Mode: May 12th, 2011

Savage Blogging
Edited by Vahni of Grit &Glamour

Savage Beauty.  Don't tell me you haven't heard the paradoxically exquisite title of  the Alexander McQueen exhibit currently mesmerizing the fashion world and the blogosphere. I mention it for two reasons. First, a couple bloggers  in this week's roundup show you the exhibit in New York—as well as a  satellite version in London—through their own lenses. So if you didn't  know about it, check out their posts and resurrect your fashion cred.

Savage Blogging. Now that's my title,  and while it was inspired by the McQueen exhibit, it also characterizes  the approach many bloggers take, as well as entries this week that  speak to the issue. Want to be haute stuff in the blog world, like The Sartorialist? Think it's all a numbers game? Well, I certainly hope not. That is savage blogging:  when your objective ceases to be the art of it, the connection, and you  are devoured by an obsession with your numbers. When you get so big  that you forget you used to be a nobody until fellow bloggers read your  blog and lifted you up. When you stop conversing, and simply become a talking head. With a camera. No thanks.

As blogging and social media mature, many are finally realizing what my mama told me years ago: You get more flies with honey. Don't be savage bloggers, loves. When you give and interact genuinely,  your star will shine, I promise you. Your numbers will grow, and people  won't write you any "open letters" to remind you that you've gotten a little too big for your britches. Honey, honeybuns. Got it?


Links à la Mode: May 12th

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