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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?"
Crimony. Another few years of the word-hackery that brought us "blogebrities", and we're all gonna sound like some freakish variant of the Smurfs.
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
I think it still comes down to personal preference. My girlfriend wouldn't find too many of the geekier types very interesting, and would find the comedians, and entertainers more interesting.
That is the biggest draw of blogging, you can find someone that is writing about what you like, and don't have to read articles that don't interest you. There is so much out there.
I think trying to categorize bloggers is mostly useless.
"Blogebrity: The Magazine. Coming soon to newsstands near you" (No, really, they're marginally serious. At least they're seriously floating the idea. And no, I don't really fucking care if they don't really intend to sell real paper magazines at real newsstands.)
"Isn't it about time that someone talked about bloggers?"
"Because, isn't it time that bloggers got some attention?"
(Actual quotes from the site.)
Jesus Christ.
Give me a fucking break.
I wish I had the last 30 seconds of my life back.
Mailing Wil a "get better" card - $3.
Buying him weird medications over the Internet - $99.
Trying to slashdot his server - Priceless.
Money for nothing, pix for free
We dont. Why are people so fascinated with celebrities? Are your own lives really THAT boring?
OMG! BTW Did you hear that Nick and Jessica filed for divorce?
While I clearly know the name, but have now idea how to spell it... I'll be honest, I've never even seen her, but damn if her name doesn't get dropped like it's supposed to mean something.
Who cares?
Does somebody want to do my homework and see if the person who sent this to Slashdot is the same as the domain owner?
"Even for Slashdot, that was a very obscure reference!" - Anonymous Coward
I recently started a blog that I'm purposely not advertising anywhere, because for now I'm simply using it as a way to share my thoughts with just a close circle of friends. But I've been thinking about the issue of "blogebrity" for a few months now.
I wonder what percent of bloggers start a blog out of some misguided attempt to achieve "celebrity" or acceptance among the cloaked masses?
I'm sure many bloggers, well, blog because they actually do have something good to say, but at the same time there are tons of hacks out there just trying to get page-views and AdSense clicks that pollute the infosphere.
Being a page-view whore isn't much better than being the jackass who yells and raises their hands in the back of a video interview.
I looked under N, but I saw no Neal, Cowboy. This list is a fake.
Didn't see groklaw mentioned.
PJ is certainly a celebrity at this point--she even has her own stalker (Maureen O'Gara).
Everytime some sort of a list comes out, whether it's top 100 songs, best ice cream flavor, all time movies, you're always going to have "aww man, X needs to be there," or "why did Y get there? they suck."
It's a list man. It's opinion. It's a list of Blogs, and it's not that big of a deal.
Maybe in blogebrity's eyes, Margaret Cho doesn't have anything to say? Maybe she says more than those D-Listers that DIDN'T make it.
It doesn't look like they explained their system here.
But hey! This opens up all kinds of future blog-related positions. Watch for these coming Slashdot stories!
Carousel is a lie!
I have Wilwheaton.net in my browser history and cached on my drive. Never has their been a better reason to rub magnets on my hard drive than now.
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Blogebrity is one of the entries in that stupid viral-marketing contest. And it's not like I'm the one who broke this story, either. Aren't there any press releases to post today?
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?!?!
Isn't this website part of the Contagious Media Showdown that was posted a few days ago?! WTF? Isn't this considered cheating?
Great, not only do I have so little free time now because I have to keep up with my life along with all the lives of fabulous celebrities, now I have to keep up with blogebrities.
I hope they make the B! Bloggertainment channel so I can get all my blogebrity news. I just have to know which blogebrities are "linking," if you know what I mean.
"There are more important things than stopping terrorism. Upholding the Constitution is one of them." - Ars Forumer.
Not sure they all qualify as blogs, but here are some great sources for news related to interests such as tranhumanist discussions...
Accelerating Times and their blog.
KurzweilAI (one of my favorites).
SL4
Yahoo Transhuman Group
Just to list a few...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
Wheaton's current entry is all about how lousy he felt when he got sick. If that's what it takes to be a blogging A-lister, I think I'll stick to the rest of the Internet for awhile longer.
The most rabid believers in American Exceptionalism are the exact same people whose policies are destroying it.
Oh boy, yet another outlet for already-celebrities to get noticed. Boy oh boy, because, you know, not enough people know that Margret Cho is a fat, bitter lesbian asian-american with, you know, problems. And her take on things is really cool. Like that time when she saw that one homosexual and called him a silly fag, and then ended up eating a ham (or a tofu ham, sorry, I should probably read her blog to find out if she's vegan or not), while flashing back over how she was discriminated growing up. Okay, seriously, a lot of these people are pretty cool and say things that aren't outright lies. But does the world really need another portal? Why does Andy Baio merit an "A" while "THE" Isabella Wunder only get a "C"? Because some goon somewhere says so? It's like reducing the art of movie criticism to Beavis and Butthead. "Citizen Kane - 6T's! Awesome!" "Casablanca - B6(j7)! It's neat!" "Spellbound - 23.3! I didn't get that one scene!" Except without even the comments. With "indie" being all the trend, you'd figure (well, if human thought / capacity for getting stuff off the ground was anywhere near ideal) that there'd be a few more "indie" websites. Remember mp3.com? Now THAT was what the internet should be all about. Evidently we'd rather just know what everyone else is reading, and want it from more than just google and Alexa.
I don't even want to KNOW what list Roland Piquepaille is on.....
What I find hilarious is how this thread is stuffed to the gills with people who rushed a post on Slashdot to tell the world that people with blogs are pathetic for thinking their opinions are important enough to publish on the web.
Mr. Kettle? There's a Mr. Pot holding for you on line two... says he wants to tell you something.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
who could forget the lovely and talented Ali Davis, author of True Porn Clerk Stories? I'm sorry, that's the best blog i've ever read, bar none.
filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
This story was submitted as an attempt to gain clicks. The site itself is probably meant as a joke, but it is certainly an entry in the "Contagious Media Showdown." The showdown is "a competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th."
Getting it submitted to Slashdot probably won it for those guys. Seems like ballot stuffing to me, though.
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!" - George W. Bush Nov. 2005
Somewhat related, I saw earlier today that http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ (a progressive political blog) is going to have a special guest blogger next week in the form of Senator John Edwards (John Kerry's right-hand man last fall); ought to make an interesting read.
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.
Click here or a puppy gets stomped!
My favorite blog at the moment has to be boingboing.net
...they're all smart, funny and cool. If my best friends had time to get together and make a blog, it would look like this.
It's a collaborative blog from the likes of:
- Cory Doctorow, one of the best voices in contemporary SF, and a co-founder (iirc) of the EFF.
- Xeni Jardin, tech culture journalist and regular contributer to Wired and NPR. (oh, and not that it matters, but she's spectacularly cute)
- Mark Frauenfelder, writer and illustrator.
- David Pescovitz, well-known science and tech writer.
- John Battelle, web search pundit.
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
What I find hilarious is how this thread is stuffed to the gills with people who rushed a post on Slashdot to tell the world that people with blogs are pathetic for thinking their opinions are important enough to publish on the web.
What are you talking about? I set my threshold to 5, and it's like sitting at a table with the philosopher kings here.
(Sorry, not a flame, just friendly jab. Sirs.)
I read Slashdot for the articles.
What are you talking about? I set my threshold to 5, and it's like sitting at a table with the philosopher kings here.
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Had I not already posted in this thread, I would mod that comment up as "funny."
Not because it was all that hilarious or anything... I just think it would be nice if he could read his own posts once in a while.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Yawn.
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Juan Cole was listed as a "B-list" blogger, but he should be on the A-list.
For the uninformed, Juan is a University of Michigan professor who collects information from various Arab Web sites and posts them in his blog. If you want to take a read at what's really happening in the Middle East, check out his blog http://www.juancole.com/.
He's definitely against the U.S. involvement in Iraq, so he's definitely biased. And I would prefer he stop some of the partisan crap that spews from both sides (his recent Photoshop pic of Cheney on a body-builders' body comes to mind), but the information he provides is well worth reading.
Fuck off.
Thank you.
Isn't the last thing this world needs is the extension of celebrity bullshit?
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Death will come, and will have your eyes
-- Pavese
I agree with you. I clicked on some of the "A List" links and found mostly news aggregation sites. One of the random "A List" clicks had the top posting as a link to The Onion, the second link on the same page to a CNN type story. Why does an amateur news aggregation site make "A list" while people who are making original material like Bruce Sterling and Maddox get delegated to the B list? The list doesn't even include Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely, one of the original bloggers who blogged on the internet before these people who wrote this crappy list ever even knew what the internet was. I guess it doesn't matter because Cringely, Maddox and Sterling will keep writing their original material about relevant things while "Blogebrity" and it's "A list" keep writing about their toothpaste woes, or what brand of shoes they like, hoping for some venture capital so they can sell out without ever having contributed one iota of anything, original thought or otherwise, to society.
Or as Maddox would say, "It doesn't matter, bag my groceries"