After many a public political/celebrity/college/athlete scandal, we’ve all learned from others’ mistakes to think twice about taking drunken, debaucherous photos. Because you never know who may find that lost camera…it could be this guy! The creator of I Touched Your Driftwood was strolling along the beach this December, found a camera that had washed ashore, and uploaded all the pics to create a charming Tumblr with the wonderfully scandalous 127 party photos! He (she?) has even gone the extra mile and fabricated characters and a decent storyline to accompany the embarrassing photos. Morally questionable? Maybe. Whatever, I’m pretty sure we get fresh karma in the new year, so this can just be strike one. 

Is blogging soon to go the way of voicemail?  Are they becoming messages put out into the void, that no respectable person under the age of thirty would every dare waste precious time listening to? According to the Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center it may be so. Consider that:

• “From 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs.”

•  But “Among 34-to-45-year-olds who use the Internet, the percentage who blog increased six points, to 16 percent, in 2010 from two years earlier.

Though The New York Times rightly points out that maybe it’s just that the word “blogging” is no longer popular, as many young people routinely post in social networks or on sites like Tumblr where the emphasis is not on length of text.  These forms of “micro-blogging” are only growing in popularity as they are an extremely efficient way of sharing experiences with a wide-range of the group.

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(Source: The New York Times)