Stumble It!This guy keeps showing up on my TypePad dashboard. He's a celebrity, in a TV show, done a high profile movie. Typepad seems to think that I should follow him. I clicked on his picture and there were his updates. Lots of one liners about "the industry" but nothing really gripping, a lot of gloss, and no real substance.
And what is it about people who think they are channeling e.e.cummings and won't use capital letters. That's either pretentious, or just annoying.
Anyway, I didn't follow him. I really only read one "celebrity" blog and that is Wil Wheaton's. Because even though he has probably one of the most loyal followings on his blog and on Twitter he doesn't think of himself as a personality. His tag line on his twitter feed says it all "I'm just this guy, you know?" He writes about himself (as most of us bloggers do) but it's real and compelling, it's funny and sad, it's frustrating and delightful. It's life.
He's also a really great writer, and not just because he uses punctuation and capital letters, but because he has an unerring way of making us hear his voice through the silent medium of words.
Trying to get back to my point (I'll blame the coffee) just because we admire someone on the screen doesn't make them sparkle in all mediums. Some folks earn our loyalty as readers by trying hard to keep us as readers. Being a fan doesn't mean you are required to follow everything - keep your illusions and skip the blog.
