Not having the interet at home has lead to a terrible neglet of blogging on m part, I feel very guilty towards it and my project and have now made a solom oath to myself to jump aboard this blogging train and bring some interesting research and reflections to those who fall apun it. I think that im in a very strong group for this project and am desparate not to let the others down by submitting a week blog at the end of the project against what im sure will turn out to be a user-friendly stylish and informative wiki.

Although I have not been online I have however been collecting bits and bobs here and there that I felt would be intresting in terms of my blog and the project in general. in class we have been discussing our themes of identity and community, much focus has been on online social networks such as facebook and myspace.
The Observer newspaper each Sunday include section of The New York Time to give British readers an idea of what news and debate is being discussed on the other side of the
pond. On Sunday the 4th 2007 the headline for this supliment was ‘Fame Game, Now in Flux’. The dialogue is on a 26 year old Tila Tequila who has 1,771,920 friends on MySpace and is the subject of a reality TV show despite lacking any any discernible talent. “because of new technologies we get to see now what happens when people have the option of making up their own celebrity…we have gone from ‘OH my God, thery’re so much better than I am’ to ‘ Oh my God they’re so good at making themselves up’” .

The article argues that its routine to dismiss such people as Tequila and complain about ow much culture has sunk, Tequila is a caricature, an almost imagined identity. Such a persona will be interesting for my group to look at as part of our project is going to be focusing on online personalities and identity's in a postmodern context. Tequila i think we can say is very postmodern. Such identities are ripe foe academic study and comprehension.