<![CDATA[Gawker: the way we blog now]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: the way we blog now]]> http://gawker.com/tag/the way we blog now http://gawker.com/tag/the way we blog now <![CDATA[ What Do Celebrities Blog About? ]]> mariska. "That's how she rolls. Just when you least expect it, Mariska throws you a curve. Over the years, I've come to expect nothing less from the hardest working—and needless to say, hottest—perp-buster on TV." That's from the "blog" of T.V. star Mariska Hargitay, which is written solely by people who are not Mariska Hargitay (but who may know her!). "Preorder your 'XO, M' t-shirts!" reads another "blog" post. It turns out that a lot of celebrity blogs aren't blogs at all, but just a collection of markedly amateurish press releases. But! At the other end of the spectrum, some celebrity blogs are deeply personal, like Al Roker's. He recently wrote a moving eulogy of his mom there! Its gravity is only slightly undermined by the cartoon of Al in a prop plane buzzing around the screen. So what else do famous people do with their personal webjournals? Our Intern Mary applied her analytical tools to the most recent posts on 48 of these sites and came up with some findings.

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METHODOLOGY: We started with this list of 66 blogging celebrities, added a few faves, eliminated the Huffington Post bloggers, and excluded presidential contenders, because that shit is bananas. Here's the raw data:


  1. David Beckham - recent soccer game (self promo)

  2. Zach Braff - movies and playlists

  3. Mark Cuban - dancing

  4. No Doubt - recent recordings (self promo)

  5. Moby - indecipherable poetry

  6. Meredith Vieira - getting a mammogram

  7. Fred Durst - indecipherable rant

  8. Barbra Streisand - Rush Limbaugh - PR release

  9. Jeff Bridges - recent casting (honorable mention for rad site design)

  10. John Mayer - OJ Simpson watch

  11. Rosie O'Donnell - "feel alright" video

  12. Margaret Cho - Rosie O'Donnell

  13. Dave Barry - Fun pets

  14. Jamie Oliver - pubs

  15. William Shatner - ShatnerVision

  16. Alyssa Milano - Upcoming gigs

  17. Dave Navarro - The fastest Asian-American in the world

  18. Julia Sweeney -long-winded narrative of regular events

  19. Donald Trump - purely self promo

  20. Tom Green - video: hiding in a suitcase

  21. Kevin Smith - long-winded narrative of regular events

  22. Mariska Hargitay - purely self promo

  23. David Byrne - sexual selection and creativity

  24. Curt Schilling - purely self promo

  25. Anna Kournikova - purely self promo

  26. Roseanne - Karen Finley (awesome)

  27. Kanye West - the "illest" shoe award

  28. Billy Morrison - the Bahamas

  29. Jason Mraz - whining about jetlag

  30. Kathy Griffin - Catholic Chuch

  31. MC Hammer - "Look University"

  32. Pamela Anderson - purely self promo

  33. Al Roker - eulogy to mother

  34. Brian Williams - purely self promo (N.B.: Usually not self promo, actually quite good, we just caught him on an off moment)

  35. The Dixie Chicks - purely self promo

  36. Anderson Cooper - the GOP (written by minion)

  37. Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen - purely self promo

  38. Victoria Beckham - purely self promo

  39. Bare Naked Ladies - photo of a ship

  40. Deepak Chopra - genetics

  41. Michael Moore - purely self promo

  42. Tommy Lasorda - baseball

  43. David Duchovny - purely self promo

  44. Jackie Chan - purely self promo

  45. Kirstie Alley - weight loss

  46. Neil Gaiman - writing

  47. Ru Paul - "THIS SHIT IS BANANAS!" (bonus points: old school blogger!)

  48. Mark Hoppus - purely self promo

]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:33:00 EDT Emily Gould http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=312325&view=rss&microfeed=true