Can blogging land you a celebrity status?

by | posted: January 15, 2008 6 comments


You might have heard the adage,
“The pen is mightier than the sword…”

 

 

In this era, blog has replaced the former one. Many famous personalities take it as a leisure activity, but it has brought fame to India-born Om Malik, who has been listed as one of the global web celebrities by Forbes. He has been ranked 12th for technology blogging on the list of ‘Web celeb 25’ where he enters the league with many fellow bloggers, video hosts and gadget gurus. He blogs at www.gigaom.com and has worked as a technology journalist for various publications in the past.

 

 

29 years old Perez Hilton, a controversial gossip blogger from www.perezhilton.com fame tops the list whose so-called poison pen pierces the lives of Hollywood stars.

 

 

Now talking about Bollywood celebrities, Rahul Bose started blogging in mid 2005 but stopped in late 2006. Aamir Khan uses his blog as a tool to interact with his fans. He promoted the trailer of “Tare Zameen Par” to his blog readers before distributing it to other media & listened to audience reactions after movie release. Now, many other B-town folks are following his footsteps.

 

 

Blogging can boost your career. Also, blogging is now the buzzword among fresh graduates who are keen to make it a career. Even, WAT team started with WATBlog, but eventually has grown to WATConsult, WATShow, WATJob and many more to come soon.

 

WATcomic

Hopefully, someday while traveling by bus or train, a stranger will tell me too – “Hey, I know you…!”


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Rupesh Mandal

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6 Responses to “Can blogging land you a celebrity status?”

  1. Reply
    Harshil Karia
    January 15, 2008 at 5:12 pm #

    kickass picture – dont u guys agree?

  2. Reply
    Saad
    January 15, 2008 at 7:27 pm #

    This is good

  3. Reply
    Nishad
    January 15, 2008 at 10:06 pm #

    There are a lot of guys who have had their lives changed because they blog

    Hugh Mcleod at Gaping Void
    Robert Scoble at Scobleizer
    Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit

    And many, many more

  4. Reply
    Alien
    January 16, 2008 at 7:41 pm #

    I found a very sweet fellow blogger and we have been together since past two years. So, even though it didn’t make a celebrity, it at least helped me in a way in finding the love of my life.

    –
    Alien

  5. Reply
    Rupesh
    January 17, 2008 at 9:44 am #

    @Harshil,
    Some credits to you too for the picture…

    @Saad,
    thanks that you liked it..

    @Nishad,
    ya, I agree with you… I am a fan of gapingvoid, his sketches are amazing…

    @Alien,
    pretty interesting to know that…

  6. Reply
    प्रशान्त प्रियदर्शी
    February 7, 2008 at 6:39 pm #

    Hey buddy do you know, this already happen with me in last year when i went to my home in divali.. One person came to me and told me, “I think i know you..” and after sometime he got to remember that he saw me many times on my blog as well as also on ORKUT… :)

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