Fame_And_The_Video_Log__vlog_

							Title:
Fame And The Video Log (vlog)

Word Count:
579

Summary:
The ranks of the famous have tradit
ionally been roles filled by movie
stars, television stars, athletes a
nd rock stars. The countenance of c
elebrity is changing to include a n
ew, technology-oriented kind of sup
erstar: The Vlogger. A vlog, if you
 have been hiding under a rock, is
a blog (self-published online diary
) with video. The vlog is trumping
the blog as far as notoriety goes a
nd the public_s love of the moving
image hasn_t seen this much popular
ity since the invention o...
Keywords:
blog,blogging,vlog,vlogging,video lo
gging,video log

Article Body:
The ranks of the famous have tradit
ionally been roles filled by movie
stars, television stars, athletes a
nd rock stars. The countenance of c
elebrity is changing to include a n
ew, technology-oriented kind of sup
erstar: The Vlogger. A vlog, if you
 have been hiding under a rock, is
a blog (self-published online diary
) with video. The vlog is trumping
the blog as far as notoriety goes a
nd the public_s love of the moving
image hasn_t seen this much popular
ity since the invention of the movi
ng picture in 1895. The difference
being the technology necessary to b
ecome a vlogger, or to take the med
ia into your own hands in the form
of _citizen journalism_ as the genr
e is now touted, is becoming easier
 and easier. A camera, broadband, h
osting site, software and content a
re the components needed to be a po
tential vlogstar.

Forbes.com has listed the Web Celeb
 25, a summation of the current int
ernet superstars influencing the In
ternet. Bloggers, podcasters and vl
oggers are among the individuals re
volutionizing the Internet as we kn
ow it.
Forbes.com defines the _Web Celeb_
as _as a person famous primarily fo
r creating or appearing in Internet
-based content, and for being highl
y recognizable to a Web-based audie
nce. That definition excludes peopl
e who were significantly famous bef
ore they hit the Web--like author A
rianna Huffington, billionaire Mark
 Cuban or journalist Michelle Malki
n--and leaves us with a pool of peo
ple whose fame depends on the Inter
net._

Forbes_ No. 1 Web Celeb is the Amer
ican/New Zealand actress Jessica Ro
se, originally known as Bree from t
he successful lonelygirl15 series.
She stars in an ongoing series abou
t a 16-year-old home-schooled Ameri
can teenager that was originally pr
esented as a personal vlog, but has
 since been outed as a scripted and
 produced drama series. Lonelygirl1
5_s fan base breeched into the mill
ions and she is one of YouTube_s mo
st popular stars. The series began
June 16, 2006 and the secrecy regar
ding the series was revealed in Aug
ust. The false pretense of the show
 and subsequent disclosure has done
 nothing but increase the commercia
l ratings of the show. Thus, provin
g the validity of the Internet-base
d star attracting worldwide attenti
on and providing a workshop for fut
ure fame.

Number 11 on the Forbes list is Bro
oklyn, NY based performance artist
Hosea Frank (aka ZeFrank) with his
daily broadcast _The Show with ZeFr
ank_.

Forbes pronounced Amanda Congdon, f
ormerly of Rocketboom fame, at NO.
8, with her new daily downloadable
program from http://ABCNews.com. Ro
cketboom became one of the most dow
nloaded and viewed sites on the Int
ernet while she was the host for 1.
5 years. She split with her partner
 and launched an independent show _
Starring Amanda Congdon._

Before there was the vlog, there wa
s the blog. Bloggers stand firm in
the Forbes list of _who_s who_ in t
he Internet. Perez Hilton, a celebr
ity gossip starmonger comes in at N
o. 2. Tech guru, Michael Arrington
(NO. 10) and Markos Moulitsas (No.
3), a political savant, both promin
ent and heavy-hitters in the blogos
phere.

Traditional media are jumping on th
e bandwagon and hiring out some of
the underground famous Internet dar
lings. Ana Marie Cox, founder of po
litical gossip blog Wonkette, accep
ted an offer to be the Washington e
ditor of http://Time.com.

Blogebrity_s Kyle Bunch had this to
 say about the pervasive technology
 of the vlog, _Now that we're seein
g more and more video blogging, whe
re the output is a bit more compara
ble to the TV/movie output, I fully
 expect some genuine 'stars' in the
 traditional sense to rise to promi
nence online."