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The World of Blogebrities
Jeremy writes "The folks at Blogebrity have a unique take on the blog scene. Drawing a parallel to the glitz and glam of Hollywood stars, they've divided some of the better-known bloggers into A-, B-, and C-lists. Slashdot favorite Wil Wheaton is featured on the A-list, while some lesser-known bloggers such as Bruce Sterling made it to the B-list, and most of the non-geeks like comedian Margaret Cho can't seem to break out of the C-list. What does the slashdot crowd think of their choices?"
What I -do- find useless, is categorizing them in 'celebrities'
In this world it seems the opinion of someone 'famous' seems to be worth more than your average Joe ; And now they are even taking over blogging.
In my opinion (not too big a fan of blogs myself), the most interesting things in the end can be read on just those average Joe's blogs, as it would be more honest, and more recognisable than your average 'celebrity' blog.
Seriously, who really gives a flying fuck. I don't care what most, if any, of these people has to say, and I'd venture that most of us don't. If you have time to read three or four blogs, post on slashdot, and read other new sites, you need to get a fucking job. J H. C, blogbrities?!?!
At least Wikipedia isn't being defaced/spammed as it was in one of those earlier SEO contests. It would be pretty funny if after all this publicity, they went ahead and DID publish a magazine. Read more of their thoughts in their blog.
BTW, I noticed that Hulk's Blog isn't listed. ;-)
Hulk might have to SMASH 'em!
You get to see how, well, frankly stupid and ignorant they really are. I predict that within a year, most celebrity blogs will be closed or handed over to their agents to manage with the rest of their publicity.
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in our society, for Americans at least. One of the things that I have noticed about blogging is that it is quite hard for people who take unorthodox views to get any attention. The vanity that is often involved in blogging ends up causing people to shy away from real debates because they want to be flattered, not challenged. Blogging seems like a sexy thing to do for a lot of people more out of a sense of a dellusion of grandeur than any desire to write intelligently.
I'm a political blogger of sorts, but I could really care less what happens in the Republicratic oligarchy on a daily basis. Most bloggers that I have seen that do write about politics end up obsessing about such mundane shit that they have no power over. Really, Bush's nominees aren't that interesting. Ideologically he is a continuation of the triangulation centrism of Clinton except with a pragmatic approach to using our military abroad against terrorists. Whoever Bush chooses won't end up being a true conservative, but rather a closet moderate or left-liberal like Clinton and half of Reagan's appointees. Until the LP, Reason Foundation or Cato vouches for some of those guys I won't give them more attention than a passive yawn.
Part of the reason I read so few blogs is that I don't want to read what amounts to a political soap opera. That really is what it is all about in the end. Most bloggers act like housewives obsessed with the Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives.
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