Quick Thoughts: Blog Celebrity
So it took me a while to get into the whole ‘blog revolution’. I never fully understood it until I started posting weekly (and bi-weekly) here on out Affari board. Since, I have found interest in other blog sites that discuss topics that interest me. It’s funny how each is unique and puts its own spin on things.
I have recently been reading a lot of sports blogs. I have read several popular blogs - mainly ESPN based. A blog that has caught my eye - and my membership - is YardBarker.com. Being a huge Ohio State fan, I found myself reading blogs during last NCAA Basketball season on this site quire often. This site did something that I had previously never seen done on a sports blog. Yard Barker has a number of pro and collegiate athletes, including Mike Conley Jr. and Greg Oden, who regularly post their personal blogs to the site. If you read one of my last Affari posts, then you know how much I hate media bias, and how having direct access strait to the athletes’ mouths is right up my ally.
I really like the entire celebrity dynamic, especially in our celebrity-obsessed, post-modern society. Hollywood publications such as US, ET and the like have become extremely successful over the past decades by simply stalking celebrities and reporting their every move to the public. Incorporating a similar approach into blogs is definitely going to be the new wave. Right now, average joes create and run websites, but soon enough, Paris Hilton will have one of the most popular blogs on the web. You know us Americans, we have to know exactly what makes such commendable citizens (such as Paris) tick.
I’m going to work on getting a celeb blogger on our Affari board. Let’s see, who would be fitting….? Maybe I’ll try to get the Aflac duck or the Burger King to sign a deal with us. I’ll consider Ronald McDonald for our B-list.
