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The World of Blogebrities
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CmdrTaco
on Wed May 25, 2005 02:00 PM
from the welcome-to-the-z-list-baby dept.
from the welcome-to-the-z-list-baby dept.
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?"
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Bloggin' Blogtastic, Bloggies! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.snowplow.org/tom/)
Re:WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? BLOGEBRITY? (Score:5, Insightful)
Mr. Kettle? There's a Mr. Pot holding for you on line two... says he wants to tell you something.
Re:WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? BLOGEBRITY? (Score:5, Funny)
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.)
Personal Preference (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.roadcycler.com/)
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.
Re:Personal Preference (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.xpriori.com/ | Last Journal: Friday June 18 2004, @04:18PM)
Except to find the ones you like, you have to read a lot of articles that don't interest you. Doh!
I think trying to categorize bloggers is mostly useless.
I think most bloggers would be categorized as "mostly useless".
"Blogebrity?" (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://das.doit.wisc.edu/)
"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.
Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
\W/il (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.sammamamma.com/ | Last Journal: Friday June 15, @01:49AM)
Buying him weird medications over the Internet - $99.
Trying to slashdot his server - Priceless.
What do we think about it? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://pyscrabble.sf.net/)
OMG! BTW Did you hear that Nick and Jessica filed for divorce?
Re:What do we think about it? (Score:5, Funny)
As sad as it sounds I must admit, I actually searched news.google.com for "Nick and Jessica" upon reading this.
(Score:-4, Pathetic)
Who cares about Magawatzit Chow? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.gamezero.com/)
Who cares?
Contagious Media Showdown (Score:5, Informative)
(http://101squadron.com/blog.html)
Does somebody want to do my homework and see if the person who sent this to Slashdot is the same as the domain owner?
Blogging for the wrong reasons (Score:3)
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.
too good for the A-list (Score:5, Insightful)
PJ is certainly a celebrity at this point--she even has her own stalker (Maureen O'Gara).
"Blogebrities"? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog | Last Journal: Monday March 05 2007, @11:58PM)
But hey! This opens up all kinds of future blog-related positions. Watch for these coming Slashdot stories!
Time to wipe my hard drive. (Score:3, Funny)
It's an entry in a viral-marketing contest. (Score:3, Informative)
Thanks, but no thanks (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.bernsrite.com/ | Last Journal: Monday June 27 2005, @11:36PM)
Nonplussing (Score:3, Funny)
(http://db.etree.org/ZappaPenguin | Last Journal: Wednesday May 17 2006, @09:13AM)
Glaring Omission (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://westernesse.net/)
Big-name polibloggist (Score:3, Informative)
(http://sonicforest.com/)
Whois info for Blogebrity.Com (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://www.komar.org/hulk/)
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. [blogebrity.com]
BTW, I noticed that Hulk's Blog [blogspot.com] isn't listed. ;-)
Hulk might have to SMASH 'em!
my favorite blog atm (Score:3, Informative)
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 [xeni.net])
- Mark Frauenfelder, writer and illustrator.
- David Pescovitz, well-known science and tech writer.
- John Battelle, web search pundit.
m-
Juan Cole (Score:3, Informative)
(http://slashdot.org/)
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/ [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.
Attn: Blogebrity (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Thank you.
Isn't the last thing this world needs is the extension of celebrity bullshit?