Polyvore

Apparently polyvore does do direct product feeds from merchants. (Amazing what you learn when you click the "about" button!) As they say on the site:

"There are three ways you can work with Polyvore. The first is to provide Polyvore with a feed of your items. Then if you want to promote those items, you can sponsor a contest to get users to interact with and engage around your brand & products. Lastly, you can incorporate Polyvore's editor functionality into your own website via the Polyvore dressing room."

What's the dressing room offer, you might ask? Well....
"The Polyvore Dressing Room allows users to build outfits specifically from your collection of products. Once built, the outfit can be saved and shared, supplying you with a virtually limitless supply of user-generated looks for your site, as well as valuable insight on product popularity and cross-selling opportunities."

i.e., free labor! free market testing! free advertising! Hurrah!

Let the set making begin....

Welcome to the CTCS 677 Blog!

You've found the blog for CTCS 677: Consuming Femininities. You will use this space to post your required course responses. To recap from the syllabus, you will be required to post at least 15 times to this blog during the semester. At least five of these posts should be in the form of weekly reading responses (approximately 300-400 words). These responses should engage critically with the course reading for that day and should demonstrate both a grasp of the material and your own considered response to the same. Simply saying you liked or didn't like something or providing a straight summary of the readings is not sufficient; you should demonstrate careful, analytical thinking, engaging the readings but also moving beyond them. Feel free to draw on class screenings or materials outside of the course as well, integrating them into your discussions and analyses, but these five posts need to engage the readings at some level. These 5 responses should be posted by 10 p.m. on the evening before class. Your other 10 posts can take the form of responses to other posts, shopping tips or diaries, links to interesting fashion sites, etc. Ideally, this blog will become a communal space for the class, one used to address and ponder course themes and to point your peers to interesting materials. You are, of course, expected to read it regularly and are encouraged to post more frequently if the spirit moves you.