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March 16, 2013

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Welcome to ceriselle.org, my space on the internet where I share a little bit of my expat life with some fashion and fun mixed in.
My name's Hayley, and I'm a British blogger currently living just outside Seattle, WA with my husband and our three springer spaniels.
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The book explains some stuff around the industry from the point of view of British influencers, and the author went so far as to do things like going to “stan” and “snarker” events, enrolling in an online influencer bootcamp and actually putting the lessons to work on her IG account. Too often, articles and books about the influencer industry are written from a slightly negative point of view, that this is just a passing fad and that anyone wanting to take part in it is a terrible, vapid, unintelligent person. I really appriciated that Olivia actually took it seriously and put the things she learnt into action instead of just writing it off.

There are not many books as detailed and involved as this, and if you have even a passing interest in the influencer industry, I would recommend picking this up.

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This year, we've seen people shutting down their blogs/websites to focus on other platforms or just to get off social media altogether, but we've also seen people advocating for a return to blogging (off the top of my head, I’ve seen posts by @carly and on @verge, but if you know of others, I would love to read!). We’ve also seen in recent months what a clusterfuck social media is becoming (I mean…more than usual/expected) with whatever the hell is going on with Twitter.

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(and honestly? I think a huge part in the decline of the number of actively updated blogs is to do with the demise of Google Reader (no, I’m still not over it) and the crumbling state of the abandoned Bloglovin'. Web based RSS feed readers that have a basic free version are few and far between, I can only think of Feedly at the moment but even that’s not amazing. Would love some recommendations!)

How do most people still follow blogs anyway? What do you use?

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