“Rumor has it”, by the title I bet you can figure out the topic of my blog, rumors, but not any rumors, celebrity rumors. I decided to pick this topic because, I found it every interesting. Lately as I went about my day to day life and I noticed that a lot of people and business make a living off celebrities and their mistakes, relationship, and problems. I have learned so much about celebrities, and not just the rumors itself, I learned that they are effected by all the magazines, television specials, and pictures of them portraying a bad image. I have also learned that other celebrities feed upon it; they like to see themselves on magazines with no underwear on to sell whatever they are selling at the time. Besides the aspects of celebrities I have learned to keep up with a blog and to research and find material to write about for my audience, in a manner that I hope they can understand and relate to.
At first my blog was really pro rumors and how entertaining they were to readers like me and how humorous I found the rumors to be. I made sure I put a spin on the rumor and put in “what if” scenarios about if the rumor is true or not. However, once I got in-depth with my blog, my opinion began to change about rumors and celebrity gossip. I started to feel some compassion for these celebrities who have to walk around with disguises so you can not recognize who they are. My blog turned into a sarcastic look on paparazzi and tmz.com that records, take pictures, and writes about celebrities.
I’m really happy with the path I have chosen with this blog, and feel there is a lot I can do to improve it, one of which could be my design of the layout. Although it is good to keep it simple I would like to add some more pictures and probably a song that relates to my blog. Second I think to improve my blog, I believe I need to start advertising on some of my other websites that I am on like MySpace or Facebook.com. I would also like to improve on my writing through out this process, I have found more and more to write about and I know that this will just continue.
On a larger scale, I feel that my blog is on of few that see celebrity gossip and rumors on a different page. Yes, it is ok to report them and talk about what happened after the show, movie, video shoot, whatever; but then you are just doing what the paparazzi, magazines, and television specials do, and then you’re like everyone else. I didn’t mean to be different but that is how I came out, in a way I have changed and have a better perspective on things that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t start this blog.
Rumor has it…..Sandra just might be continuing her blog, but I guess you guys are just going to have to stay tuned.
Monday, May 5, 2008
Blog Analysis
Rumor has it is my blog about celebrity rumors and gossip also I try to put a spin on what celebrities go through with the paparazzi. Although, I believe my blog is fine for what it is, my first one, but there are things that can be improved. Searching for inspiration for a blog entry, I found three other blogs that caught my eye a while ago, and now glad I can actually talk about them.
“Gossip Girls” is also about celebrity gossip of course, being my central theme, the layout and background is something I really admire. The black and pink colors grab the attention of the reader, besides the theme. Also, the blog is not done by one person; there is a group of girls maybe like three or four of them posting entries about what they want to talk about or what they found out that day. The blogs aren’t long, actually it is similar to magazines star sightings, where you have a picture of the celebrity and what they did that week or month. Also the blog has links to other related topics which I want to do as well to show support and different genres of writing.
“Star Muscle” that talks about celebrity news, gossip, and lies, it is a humorous look at some celebrity blunders and also a compassionate take on others. The blog makes an effort to take various issues and not just report them but put an opinion on them, because of the opinion spin, it shows the reader that the creator or creators want to take the blog to another level besides gossip, which I admire because that is an interested of mine.
“The Hollywood Gossip” is especially similar to my blog, the layout is somewhat the same style while the blog entries are also moderately alike as well. The entries don’t talk about regular celebrity gossip; they are more controversial and informative on what a reader didn’t know. For example, because I don’t watch television, I did not know that actor Rob Lowe was accused of sexual harassment by two nannies. Unlike all the other celebrity blogs out there, “The Hollywood Gossip” tries to post entries most blogs with the same theme would not even think of. I admire this blog because I feel that we are trying to do similar things by staying out of the norm.
Each blog is similar to each other in many ways. Even in design where they all took a color scheme and surround it with similar colors. They all have related links to there topic and try to keep their posts updated. On that note each blog has something I admire and I hope to take each of those things and build my blog into what I want it to be. You can find all of them at these links: http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/, http://www.starmuscle.com/, http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/.
“Gossip Girls” is also about celebrity gossip of course, being my central theme, the layout and background is something I really admire. The black and pink colors grab the attention of the reader, besides the theme. Also, the blog is not done by one person; there is a group of girls maybe like three or four of them posting entries about what they want to talk about or what they found out that day. The blogs aren’t long, actually it is similar to magazines star sightings, where you have a picture of the celebrity and what they did that week or month. Also the blog has links to other related topics which I want to do as well to show support and different genres of writing.
“Star Muscle” that talks about celebrity news, gossip, and lies, it is a humorous look at some celebrity blunders and also a compassionate take on others. The blog makes an effort to take various issues and not just report them but put an opinion on them, because of the opinion spin, it shows the reader that the creator or creators want to take the blog to another level besides gossip, which I admire because that is an interested of mine.
“The Hollywood Gossip” is especially similar to my blog, the layout is somewhat the same style while the blog entries are also moderately alike as well. The entries don’t talk about regular celebrity gossip; they are more controversial and informative on what a reader didn’t know. For example, because I don’t watch television, I did not know that actor Rob Lowe was accused of sexual harassment by two nannies. Unlike all the other celebrity blogs out there, “The Hollywood Gossip” tries to post entries most blogs with the same theme would not even think of. I admire this blog because I feel that we are trying to do similar things by staying out of the norm.
Each blog is similar to each other in many ways. Even in design where they all took a color scheme and surround it with similar colors. They all have related links to there topic and try to keep their posts updated. On that note each blog has something I admire and I hope to take each of those things and build my blog into what I want it to be. You can find all of them at these links: http://www.celebrity-gossip.net/, http://www.starmuscle.com/, http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/.
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