In the blogosphere, the top 10 moments of 2006 tend to involve navel gazing. Kyle Bunch of Blogebrity.com offered his list of the “Top 10 Blogebrities of 2006″ to Laist.com. They included Jason Calacanis, the founder of Weblogs, and Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com. At No. 1: Ze Frank, whose daily videos take on subjects ranging from trade sanctions on North Korea to which fresh fruits are best for wearing on your fingers (zefrank.com/theshow).
We should totally resist this urge, but we can’t….to Monsieur Mitchell, we can’t help but ask — is it your assertion that certain types of end of year lists are lazier than others, depending on the subject matter’s importance or relevance to you? For that matter, what’s lazier — the proverbial top x of 2006 list, or regurgitating several of those dreaded lists in a slow news week mashup piece?
All the same, thanks for the linkage, Danny Boy. To think, out of literally thousands of year-end lists, that we’d wind up catching your eye…to borrow from the parlance of Carly Simon, it’s the stuff that dreams are made of.
“Ha ha ha, you Gawker commenters are hilarious!” or “ha ha, I can’t believe you guys are doing our work for us, and not even getting paid (meagerly) for it!”?
In other Gawknews — do you love reading Gawker, but wish their easy-on-the-eyes clean, sparse layout was fugtastically-transformed into a 1970’s Oakland A’s nightmare? If you answered yes, A Blog Soup’s got just the holiday present for you, my colorblind friend.
When Jossip’s David Hauslaib, Pink is the New Blog’s Trent Vanegas, and Suchin Pak from the glorified video podcast formerly known as Code.tv hit the Lower East Side, no one gets out alive. Thanks, Malatron.
As we’re sure you heard on CNN or Fox News, today is Reveal Your Blog Crush day on the Interwebs. (BuzzFeed is doing a good job of covering the crushyness). Because the holidays are the time to tell people how you feel about them, however awkward or drunken those professions may be.
Here at Blogebrity, you’ll excuse us if we’re having a tough time settling on any one object of our affection. Now that Jessica’s gone, what’s the point anymore?
Congdon fans of the world rejoice — A/C on ABC, her regular interactive feature for ABC News, starts tomorrow (12/13/06). Watch it someplace cool, so you can tell your kids a good story about where you were when Amanda Congdon made her big ABC debut.
I’ve been a bit lazy about posting this and it’s about a week old, but here it is, and guess what, you can steal it and repost it on your blog, go ahead:
TechTV fans rejoice! Your one time favorite network (you know, before Comcast screwed it up and and got rid of all the good shows and people) is coming back, sort of. That’s right, Undo.tv, which is a new project by Leo Laporte and Chris Pirillo that aims to bring tech programming to fans of the old TechTV and just about anyone interested in tech via the net. Fans of TechTV will recognize many of their favorite hosts from the network in Undo’s content. Viewers will also be able to create and upload their own content that will be eligible to become part of Undo.tv’s official lineup of shows. Currently the online network is invite only, and you can sign up to maybe get and invite, or at least that is what Leo Laporte said when I spoke with him the other day. He feels that “At the very least it’s going to be a central place where listeners can find quality tech content from the extend TechTV family.”. And although he cannot be certain, he says that it could turn out to be the online rebirth of TechTV. Leo is more than capable of running such a network, as he is no stranger to the online media business. The TWiT podcast (or netcast, as he insists it be called) network is one of the largest with hundreds of thousands listeners each month. They record new episodes for their many podcasts every week. Almost everyday! He speculates that, ” It won’t be very long before people start getting their TV programming from the Internet” and that ” IPTV is just around the corner”. He says that the internet is probably the best way for he and the other TechTV hosts to distribute the type of tech oriented programming they specialize in, and he may be right. Although no official announcements have been made he said that Undo.tv is expected to launch in January. So sign up now!
If a Wikipedian that goes by the screenname of ‘Timecop’ has his way, blogging will never exist, according to the history books of Wikipedia.
Tony Pierce is the latest target of the user leading the charge to banish the Blogebrities from Wikiville, a lovely chap who also claims his founding of ‘The Gay N****r Association of America’ amongst his many exploits.
Blogebrity readers worldwide — we trust you won’t let this stand. Today it’s Tony, tomorrow it could be Heather Armstrong or Doc Searls. Head over to Wikipedia today, dive into the geek fight, and Save Tony!
If a Wikipedian that goes by the screenname of ‘Timecop’ has 
