November 18, 2003
The Paris Hilton Sex Tape Phenomenon
I've got to come up with a name for the phenomenon of things completely unrelated to the web blogging world at large being spontaneously picked up by the world of A-List bloggers.
The latest example of this is the Paris Hilton Sex Tape craze. I present Exhbits A-C:
As is discussed in Exhibit C, the motivation to post about such a hot topic can easily be explained by the desire to rise push up their GoogleRank (an interesting double entendre, if you ask me).
But this does not explain such highrollers as Kottke and Hammersley getting in the fray. Their blogs are usually very focused, finely tuned web musings. Moreover, they have little need to resort to such measures to increase their page views. Their web hosting bandwidth bills are already high enough each month, I'm sure.
This particluar topic aside (since it's so obvious), what makes a given topic blow up on such popular blogs? And on this particular topic (since it's so trashy), what makes a topic that would usually be hidden in the back of the sock drawer of most web sites suitable for posting on normally PG-13 blogs?
Posted by jtnt at November 18, 2003 09:54 PM in Blather & Web Development | TrackBack