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The Super Stars of New Social Media
sanspeak writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles the Moguls of New Media. It's not about the entrepreneurs who have created these new media islands like MySpace, YouTube and such, but people who participate in it and make it successful." From the article: "As videos, blogs and Web pages created by amateurs remake the entertainment landscape, unknown directors, writers and producers are being catapulted into positions of enormous influence. Each week, about a half-million people download a comedic video podcast featuring a former paralegal. A video by a 30-year-old comedian from Cleveland has now been watched by almost 30 million people, roughly the audience for an average "American Idol" episode. The most popular contributor to the photo site Flickr.com just got a contract to shoot a Toyota ad campaign."
I have been an avid blogger for a while now. I write quality content designed to make people laugh, cry, think, and maybe leave a little bit more enlightened. Either that or laugh their asses off, whichever comes first. In any case, it absolutely slays me that while my readership tops out at 20-40/week, create a blog with horrible english and videos of morons lip syncing and you can get millions of hits a day. Oh well, it is not like we are a nation of deep thinkers anyway. I mean look how many "Red States" there are...
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