| anks of the famous have traditionally been roles filled | | | | popular stars. The series began June 16, 2006 and |
| by movie stars, television stars, athletes and rock | | | | the secrecy regarding the series was revealed in |
| stars. The countenance of celebrity is changing to | | | | August. The false pretense of the show and |
| include a new, technology-oriented kind of superstar: | | | | subsequent disclosure has done nothing but increase |
| The Vlogger. A vlog, if you have been hiding under a | | | | the commercial ratings of the show. Thus, proving |
| rock, is a blog (self-published online diary) with video. | | | | the validity of the Internet-based star attracting |
| The vlog is trumping the blog as far as notoriety | | | | worldwide attention and providing a workshop for |
| goes and the public’s love of the moving | | | | future fame. |
| image hasn’t seen this much popularity since | | | | Number 11 on the Forbes list is Brooklyn, NY based |
| the invention of the moving picture in 1895. The | | | | performance artist Hosea Frank (aka ZeFrank) with |
| difference being the technology necessary to | | | | his daily broadcast ‘The Show with |
| become a vlogger, or to take the media into your | | | | ZeFrank’. |
| own hands in the form of ‘citizen | | | | Forbes pronounced Amanda Congdon, formerly of |
| journalism’ as the genre is now touted, is | | | | Rocketboom fame, at NO. 8, with her new daily |
| becoming easier and easier. A camera, broadband, | | | | downloadable program from Rocketboom became |
| hosting site, software and content are the | | | | one of the most downloaded and viewed sites on |
| components needed to be a potential vlogstar. | | | | the Internet while she was the host for 1.5 years. |
| has listed the Web Celeb 25, a summation of the | | | | She split with her partner and launched an |
| current internet superstars influencing the Internet. | | | | independent show ‘Starring Amanda |
| Bloggers, podcasters and vloggers are among the | | | | Congdon.’ |
| individuals revolutionizing the Internet as we know it. | | | | Before there was the vlog, there was the blog. |
| defines the “Web Celeb” as “as a | | | | Bloggers stand firm in the Forbes list of |
| person famous primarily for creating or appearing in | | | | ‘who’s who’ in the Internet. |
| Internet-based content, and for being highly | | | | Perez Hilton, a celebrity gossip starmonger comes in |
| recognizable to a Web-based audience. That definition | | | | at No. 2. Tech guru, Michael Arrington (NO. 10) and |
| excludes people who were significantly famous | | | | Markos Moulitsas (No. 3), a political savant, both |
| before they hit the Web--like author Arianna | | | | prominent and heavy-hitters in the blogosphere. |
| Huffington, billionaire Mark Cuban or journalist Michelle | | | | Traditional media are jumping on the bandwagon and |
| Malkin--and leaves us with a pool of people whose | | | | hiring out some of the underground famous Internet |
| fame depends on the Internet.” | | | | darlings. Ana Marie Cox, founder of political gossip |
| Forbes’ No. 1 Web Celeb is the American/New | | | | blog Wonkette, accepted an offer to be the |
| Zealand actress Jessica Rose, originally known as | | | | Washington editor of |
| Bree from the successful lonelygirl15 series. She stars | | | | Blogebrity’s Kyle Bunch had this to say about |
| in an ongoing series about a 16-year-old | | | | the pervasive technology of the vlog, “Now |
| home-schooled American teenager that was originally | | | | that we're seeing more and more video blogging, |
| presented as a personal vlog, but has since been | | | | where the output is a bit more comparable to the |
| outed as a scripted and produced drama series. | | | | TV/movie output, I fully expect some genuine 'stars' |
| Lonelygirl15’s fan base breeched into the | | | | in the traditional sense to rise to prominence online. |
| millions and she is one of YouTube’s most | | | | |
