Day Two Closing Keynote: Living the Truman Show
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008Heather Armstrong’s first book was just released in April (and she has other impending opportunities yet to be announced.) Stephanie Klein is a blogger, an author, and is now in development with NBC working on a pilot for a series based on her autobiographical books based on her autobiographical blog. Heather and Stephanie are the perfect people to close BlogHer ‘08 with a discussion about what it’s like “Living the Truman Show*.” Bloggers everywhere are putting their lives online…and now into other media too. We’ll talk to them about how it feels to put yourself under that microscope. Heather and Stephanie may live it on a bigger scale than most of us, but haven’t you experienced some or all of these symptoms?
- Parts of life get nearly fictionalized in your own head as you plan your next blog post about events happening in real-time
- People confuse you with a character and forget you’re a real human being
- As your friends, co-workers and family become more aware of your blog they either get caught up in it all…or get more and more uncomfortable.
By blogging we sometimes put ourselves in a fishbowl. Hilarity (and sometimes other not-so-funny stuff) ensues.
*The Truman Show was a movie from 1998 about a man who discovers his “life” is actually a reality TV show that the entire world is watching.
