March 7, 2004

  • I was going to write a post about the meaning of fame and how it relates to blogging, and Xanga in particular.  Search for a profound spin, depict it as either ephemeral or a sensation of more significance, and posit a place for it properly within our evolving cultural milieu. 


    I was going to expand upon this comment (edited) that I left for another:

    I'm not sure 'celebrity' status on xanga (for those who have approached it) is really ‘pseudo’.  I think it might, in some cases, actually be an instance of 'micro-celebrity' status, i.e., someone with a publicly celebrated status making a real impact but only upon a small coterie of people.  As such, it almost resembles a nascent soft cultishness, the seed, if properly watered, of something that could turn out like James' west-coast 'ministry'.  Of course, it need not turn out so.  I, too, once had a taste of this xanga micro-celebrity status and just let it slip away toward oblivion.    Oh well, amazingly, I still have a life! (hrm...I might turn this last paragraph into a blog, what do you think?)

    But how does one even limit or define ‘micro-celebrityhood’?

    How many readers must you have?  Or how many readers that visit and leave comments on a regular basis?  Or how highly rated must you be regularly in the Featured Content?

    Or is it the impact you make on your readers?  And then how do you measure that—by the intensity of their comments?  By whether or not they imitate you?  Or whether they band together, either informally or formally, to urge you on for sake of their next ‘must-fix’ of you?

    Or perhaps the recipe for celebrated success is a dash of each of the measures above?  Then, how large the dashes?


    Well, when it comes to ‘micro’, there’s no lower limit.


    So if you have even just one reader who really loves you, you’re a blogging microstar.


    I’m hoping you all find that special reader soon, if not already. 


    Unless, of course, you abhor adulation.  In which case, you’ll find that the blocking option works just as well upon idolaters as flames.

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