Recently one form of archive that I have been exploring is that of personal blogs and twitter pages of famous celebrities. while these pages could be considered as being unorthodox and trivial, I believe that they are actually quite revealing about the author and provides an intimate and unobstructed look into their most frank and honest thoughts.
As discussed before, an archive is meant to be an accumulation of as much, if not all, data that one can find regarding an issue, person or topic. Whether this is a broad and wandering collection or a specific and focused one merely depends on the archivist and their personal desire for their archive. One thing that they all have in common though is their ability to express what they want. It has been discussed whether or not this liberty is a good or a bad thing and whether or not it should be limited and checked.
This topic of discussion was what made the exploration of celebrity blogs so interesting. More often than not, the things that celebrities say and do are well known by all and are broadcast on many levels. this however, leads many celebrities to censor and guard what they say for fear of their words and actions being misinterpreted. This is what made the bogs and twitter pages I found so interesting. though not absolutely ridiculous and revealing of secret natures, the twitter pages and blogs of celebrities that I found and looked at let me feel as if their words were more genuine and human regardless of the content.
For this reason, even though it may be just to satisfy a guilty pleasure, I will continue following the blogs as i see the interviews and articles appear, for I'm sure that the differences and similarities to be found among them will be a very interesting comparison and entirely nique archive.
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