Type "olsen twins" into the Search box on Yahoo! and more than 6 million pages respond to the call. Among the legion of fan sites, fugly comments, and photo extravaganzas devoted to the wisp-thin style icons, one blog is written, edited, monitored, and nourished by a 23-year-old graduate student named Erin Balser.
Erin started MKAshley.com in April on the "global new media network" b5media. Since then, this Toronto-based cultural studies major has launched a Nicole Richie fan site (RichieFan.com), a webpage devoted to David and Victoria Beckham (BeckhamGroupie.com), and a blog that champions green fashion (ChicbyNature.com).
How does a young academic end up the driving force behind a host of positive celebri-blogs? We contacted Erin to find out:
Hey Erin! You have, by our count, four blogs. Is that the right number? How do you do that?!
I do have four. There was one point I had seven (four with b5, one other contract blog, and two personal) but had to scale back when I started school again. How do I do it? Well, I' m an Internet addict and I'm very organized!!
It's gotten easier as I've been doing it longer—I've learned where to find information faster and how to blog faster and that kind of thing. Read the full profile...
Filed under: Celebrities, Blogs, Yahoo! Picks Profiles
Daryl Hannah drives the coolest, blackest biodiesel El Camino. Madonna sparked a rumpus with animal advocates when her sheep sashayed across the grass in fashionable hues of bright pink and blue. And Batman has some Hong Kong residents up in arms with a request to keep their lights on full-force for a week. Pow!
These—and many other juicy tidbits—can be found on Ecorazzi, "the latest in green gossip." This vivacious, eco-friendly blog sprang onto the scene in August and has since attracted a crack team of contributors devoted to tracking Hollywood's green, or not so green, beat.
Rebecca Carter, of greenerMIAMI, and Groovy Green's Michael d'Estries co-founded the celebri-blog. We chatted with Rebecca over instant messenger to see how things are going...
Hey there, Rebecca! You and Michael both had thriving blogs when you started Ecorazzi. What made you join forces for a new site?
It was an instant message, in fact. Apparently, Michael had been seeing what crazy traffic gossip sites like Perez Hilton receive, and I had recently written a piece about Green Celebrities. He IM'ed me and asked what I thought of doing a whole blog on the topic. Kind of harnessing the popularity of celebrities for good...
In the blogging world, if you have an idea that no one has come up with yet, and you think it's a good one, you might as well give it a shot. It only takes a day to start a blog. We didn't expect this kind of popularity at all. We've been running to catch up ever since. Read the full profile...
Filed under: Celebrities, Gossip, Blogs, Green Living, Yahoo! Picks Profiles
Katherine Power and Hillary Kerr realized their gossip mag fetish wasn't really about the hot dish on who was canoodling who—it was all about what the celebs were wearing the night before. Thus was born this blog, a never-ending stream of the latest boots, hottest lipstick, newest coats, and fanciest hairstyles. You'll see how to get looks inspired by top designers and how famous folk pulled together a particularly cool outfit. And if these stylistas don't have anything nice to say, they pretty much don't say it. This isn't Go Fug Yourself. These gals report the trends they genuinely like to look at. While current hotties such as Sienna Miller and Mary-Kate Olsen do show up in these pages, WhoWhatWearDaily.com stays true to its motto: "We don't care who you're dating or if you eat. We only care about what you wear."
Filed under: Fashion, Celebrities, Blogs
Filed under: Celebrities, Blogs, Humor, Drawing
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