Hit Me Baby One More Time.

04Feb09

Celebrity blogs. I seriously can not help myself indulge (and/or waste) a couple hours of my day, almost every day. I always thought that I didn’t care to follow the lives of certain public figures but by the time Britney was shaving her head I was hooked. Oh No They Didn’t! Perez Hilton, and The Superficial are a few of my favorites, and favorites of other fellow celebrity blog obsessed comrades.

Safe to say I’m not the only one reading, Perez Hilton announced yesterday on his site that according to sitemeter he had 236.6 million page views in January. With views like that it’s no wonder that advertisers are willing to pay up to $54 000to run a one day ad package on his site. The Superficial appears to be a little bit more budget, but I can’t help but belt out in laughter to all the ridiculous references and sarcastic wit that pours out of each blog. With titles like “Sarah Paling adds F-ck Me Boots to GOP Arsenal” or “Miley Cyrus’ Side Boob Just Sank Your Disney Stock!” who wouldn’t want to know what other ridiculous things will come out of this man/woman’s mouth!

This obsession of mine has been coined as ‘infotainment’ which I’ve learned over the three and a half years (thus far) of my degree is a mix between information and entertainment, this term was always synonymous with television, and most significantly, the news. However I think it’s important to note that infotainment has crossed the television boundary line and can now be found all over the Internet, not just in celebrity blogs but on YouTube channels, normal blogs, or any of the other million places on the Internet where people can mix their fascination with information with a little entertainment to jazz it up a little.