WIRED wants you to be famous on the internet

reminds me of Kathy Griffin's numerous stunts to get in front of the camera. Except Kathy has a talent to make funnies and sadly Julia Allison probably is just a nobody.

I can't imagine that a person could get famous via Twitter. That monster is in a perpetual state of brokenness. Fail Whale is the story of my life.

Do I want internet fame? Sure! - although I'm not going to go out of my way to promote myself. The more people that read my blog, the better... but here's the thing:

I actually try to create original content, to give a new perspective on a subject, to do something no one else has done (I suck at it, but hey...) From what I can tell after 5 minutes at her site, Julia Allison dosen't actually create anything. She just self-promotes, links, and babbles. The really cool Internet people are the ones who do something unique. The Ze Frank's(humor/political vlogger), the Jessica Valenti's(feministing.com), perhaps even the Perez Hilton's(he does certainly have something to say...). And, of course, our own afterellen bloggers and vloggers.

Self promotion is idiocy when you have nothing but yourself to promote.

I passed on that issue cuz I thought it was Britney Spears on the cover. lol

-Nathiest
the devil is in the details

I think brianna32 rocks it with her comments. Couldn't have put it better myself.

I'm trying to do the exact opposite of Julia Allison, I think. I want my blog to be a resource for all kinds of athletes, and to that effect, I've tried to take myself out of it a little bit. For example, I'll only write about a workout I did if I think it'll be helpful for people to read. "I ran 7 miles today in 100 degree weather and I frickin' ROCK!" doesn't help people; it's all about me. But if I were to expand on the difficulty of running/racing in the heat and humidity, if I provide some insight about pushing through a difficult workout, if I can remind my readers that we all have rough days, then the blog becomes about more than just me me me!

Which isn't to say there's anything wrong with a blog that's essentially a diary. But the main thing with that is that you're entering into a relationship with your audience; you're creating a community, which--again--is serving other people. It's not about profit; it's about people.

And brianna32 still said it better (and in fewer words) ;-) 

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"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

- Sigmund Freud 

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Are you saying we're not famous?

I wouldn't say that coming to parties uninvited is admiring.

 

Although maybe I'm the crazy one here?

I'm not surprised they would run a story on her.

But still, that issue was one of the sillier ones.

The cover story was probably the least interesting thing in the issue, really. Allison is, as I'm sure she aspires to be, annoying. I've never read anything else about her and I probably never will.

But hey, props to her for going after her dream.

Or something.

EDIT: Also, in that last photo, she looks at a glance like Sandra Bullock.

That's unnerving! I like Bullock!

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["Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me: I quit.' "]

but I really really don't understand why nowadays everybody wants to be famous....All I want is feel as good as possible, live at my rythm (which means: not the crazy society rythm) and keep my friends as long as possible. Yeah, I know, it's so much harder than being famous...

Wait! I'm famous too! I've got an average of 50 people reading my blog every day!

OK, OK, maybe I'm not that famous but fame is in the eye of the beholder ;-)

Sure, I'd like to get 51, or even 52, people following my blog but as others have stated, I care about the content more than anything else. I blog to offer value, in the form of interesting books and films reviews, not to get internet famous, whatever that means (never heard of that Allison person and I spend a lot of time on the internet lol).

 

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Taking off - the novel, coming soon. Starring Katie, a lesbian in London...

In the meanwhile, you can read reviews of films and books with lesbian/bi characters and/or taking place in London at www.takingoff.org

 

As far as MySpace fame goes... I have over 14,000 people on my friend list.

But if they all deleted me I wouldn't really care so... Do I want internet fame? Hardly.

 

Go here for my view on all things lesbian: http://allthingslesbeau.blogspot.com

How come I don't know who any of these people are except crazy chris crocker?  I knew I was out of touch, but this is mad!  As for internet stuff, I have a Myspace and a Facebook that I use to share photographs with a few close friends, other than that I don't bother.  I did have a Bebo account, but I deleted it (mwahaha!)

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indeed.

I loathe Perez Hilton, but at least he DOES something, however stupid and mean-spirited it is. Julia Allison does nothing.

I was at South by Southwest in Austin earlier this year, and I went to a panel discussion of "Internet Gossip Sites," thinking it might help me with the Important Work I do here for AfterEllen/AfterElton. It started out pretty well -- the one out dyke panel leader, lots of queer folks in the audience and on the panel, a guy from TMZ and a writer from the NY Times.

I was just settling in to enjoy myself when some woman in the audience starts heckling the guy from Valley Wag, and making herself generally annoying as hell. It was Julia Allison.

Now here's the thing. I live on the Internet, and Julia is NOT "internet famous," because I'd never heard of her, or her supposedly fame-inducing boyfriend, nor most of the people she babbled about after she comandeered the stage and disrupted the entire panel discussion. She's just famous in an incestuous little group of Silicon Valley insiders who think they're not just the Internet, but the world. Well, they're not. And I still resent the fact that what could have been a very interesting and useful panel was blown into the most boring of smithereens by one of the most boring people I've ever listened to whine.

It wasn't just that it was aggravating, it's that it was BORING and POINTLESS, and why they all let it happen, I have no idea. It was like a Saturday Night Live skit or something. You know, the kind of that go horribly wrong?

Not that I have an opinion or anything. And this issue of Wired went right into the recycling, too, so, too bad so sad, advertisers.