This week, I intended to write about the final of ITV's Dancing on Ice competition, which was won by ex Hearsay member, Suzanne Shaw. However, as I was sifting through the blogs to see if anyone was surprised/happy that she's won, I came across a number of blogs devoted to celebrities'.....babies!
Blogs such as "Celebs and Bubs" , and the "Celebrity Baby Blog" really do prove that people can blog about anything, and that a phenomenon which started out as a way to engage users into commenting on news, has now become more of a way for people to just generally gossip about things that most people (such as myself), consider unimportant, and equally uninteresting!
Kaye Sweetser's Blog regularly talks about the different advantages of online journalism, blogging in particular, and how the digital newsroom is vastly affecting the way that people perceieve and use journalism.
So I wonder why it is then, when people are given the opportuinity to use their skills and voice their opinions to achieve positive outcomes, that people think it's OK to use up Internet space to talk about celebrities' babies, who may be cute, but haven't really done anything worthwhile discussing, have they?
Sweetster mentions Joshua Micah Marshall, who recently won an award for his investigative journalism as a result of using Blogging as a way to encourage his readers to report on the US Attorney firing scandal. Now that is using blogging to it's full potential!
(Although, included in his profile is a photograph of him holding a baby, so I guess if he thinks it's OK to focus on babies just as much as the celebrity themselves, then maybe it is. He is, after all, an award winning Blogger!)
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