The Chicago Tribune has a story on the popularity of photo blogging today. In "Photo blogs capture slice of everyday life," writer Alex Goldfayn reports on some of the motivating factors behind why people use pictures to tell stories about themselves.
For example, Adam Seifer has been posting an image of everything he eats on his photoblog "Get In My Belly" for more than two years now. Seifer has photographed 2,600 meals in a row and has a following of about 20,000 people a day coming to see what he has eaten. You are what you blog, I guess.
Seifer is also co-founder of Fotolog.net which boasts more than 41 million photo-uploads since 2002. According to The Chicago Tribune story Seifer noted:
"These are pictures of little slices of daily life," Seifer said. "These are not event-driven pictures of birthdays and vacations and Christmas. They are little things that capture your attention throughout daily life."
Fotolog.net was also featured in Wired Online about high and low culture generated by the blog.
It may be difficult for some people to understand the significance of blogging as a form global communication, but the future is upon us. In many ways, photoblogging is a way of democraticizing artistic expression and communication. Networks of peoples around the world are formed through the photos they post. From a sociological perspective, photoblogging is about the creation and maintenance of social and self identities. At the heart of this interstice is human nature and self-interest.