1. Read comments By rach SPOTLIGHT ON: POSTCARDS FROM YO MOMMA Fact: At least ninety percent of the time, online correspondence with one’s mother is terribly amusing. There is something irresistible about the combination of technical quirks ( “Love, Mom” at the end of IMs), spontaneous and genuine life advice, and e-mails that resemble fourth grade lunch box notes. Postcards From Yo Momma documents these digital moments with emails sent by real readers’ moms, and is so addictive that the blog’s editors just scored a book deal with Hyperion for April 2009. Check it out, and send in yo momma’s words. Make her proud. Who’s making it happen?Jessica Grose / 26 / Editor at Jezebel.comDoree Shafrir / 29 / Reporter at The NY Observer(Pictured with their respective mommas, above) So, what’s PFYM all about?Postcards From Yo Momma collects emails from people’s moms. It turns out almost all moms sound exactly the same! We came up with the name in 5 minutes on GChat—It seemed to describe what we wanted the site to be but it was also a little silly. PFYM (as we now call it) is all original content, and we put up 10-15 reader submissions every day. Was it easy to find contributors?Frighteningly easy—once we put out the word to friends, we were flooded with mother notes, and the majority of them are great. We’ve found that the emails from mothers to daughters tend to be more buddy-buddy, whereas the emails to sons are more naggy and full of reminders. Do your mothers know about it?We were actually a little nervous to tell our moms about the blog because we weren’t sure how they’d react (and the first few posts had a bunch of their emails in them). But they both loved it and now read it almost every day. What are some of your other favorite tumblelogs?Alex Balk, Tuneage, Garfield Minus Garfield, Perpetua, JessicaLouise, Reverse Cowgirl, and Maura.



    SPOTLIGHT ON: POSTCARDS FROM YO MOMMA

    Fact: At least ninety percent of the time, online correspondence with one’s mother is terribly amusing.

    There is something irresistible about the combination of technical quirks ( “Love, Mom” at the end of IMs), spontaneous and genuine life advice, and e-mails that resemble fourth grade lunch box notes. Postcards From Yo Momma documents these digital moments with emails sent by real readers’ moms, and is so addictive that the blog’s editors just scored a book deal with Hyperion for April 2009.

    Check it out, and send in yo momma’s words. Make her proud.

    Who’s making it happen?
    Jessica Grose / 26 / Editor at Jezebel.com
    Doree Shafrir / 29 / Reporter at The NY Observer
    (Pictured with their respective mommas, above)

    So, what’s PFYM all about?
    Postcards From Yo Momma collects emails from people’s moms. It turns out almost all moms sound exactly the same! We came up with the name in 5 minutes on GChat—It seemed to describe what we wanted the site to be but it was also a little silly. PFYM (as we now call it) is all original content, and we put up 10-15 reader submissions every day.

    Was it easy to find contributors?
    Frighteningly easy—once we put out the word to friends, we were flooded with mother notes, and the majority of them are great. We’ve found that the emails from mothers to daughters tend to be more buddy-buddy, whereas the emails to sons are more naggy and full of reminders.

    Do your mothers know about it?
    We were actually a little nervous to tell our moms about the blog because we weren’t sure how they’d react (and the first few posts had a bunch of their emails in them). But they both loved it and now read it almost every day.

    What are some of your other favorite tumblelogs?
    Alex Balk, Tuneage, Garfield Minus Garfield, Perpetua, JessicaLouise, Reverse Cowgirl, and Maura.