Comments on: Arianna Unplugged http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102957 Tue, 10 May 2005 00:15:13 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102957 funktrunk…. thank you for saying that … well i am not sure what is going to happen with the audience, i think the blogs are still in early stages of adoption, and is still mostly purists. i am not sure about her cult of personality

]]> By: funktruck http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102956 Mon, 09 May 2005 23:52:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102956 I’m curious to see how it all pans out. Personally, I’m a geek at heart so I remain a daily reader of Gigaom and will not switch to Arianna’s brand of fizzy soda.

But the vast majority of web surfers are not geeks. Arianna had and has a huge following that clings to her every word. Why would they not read her blog?

I’m not so sure about John Cusack. Hey, I liked High Fidelity just as much as anybody, but I don’t particularly care what he thinks about politics and social issues…

I’m willing to bet an MP3 from iTunes that Arianna’s blog is successful.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102955 Mon, 09 May 2005 20:52:29 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102955 Jesse

that is a great point. leverage the community damn it – i wish people would pay attention to that!

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102954 Mon, 09 May 2005 19:24:56 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102954 The key to having a successful celebrity blog is the same as having a sucessful celebrity website — let the fans take over. People would be more interested in a blog where the celebrity responded to their postings, rather than the other way around.

]]> By: Jordan Ambra http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102953 Mon, 09 May 2005 17:03:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102953 That’s one of the most boring websites I think I’ve ever visited. It’s probably worse than the TV shows these people have been on.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102952 Mon, 09 May 2005 16:36:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102952 Amen to that. it is one big ego massage and ironically, and most importantly no one in the blog world is treating them skeptically. blogging is about average people, not beautiful people who are more narccistic than even bloggers :-)

]]> By: Jon Gales http://gigaom.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102951 Mon, 09 May 2005 15:53:56 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/05/09/arianna-unplugged/#comment-102951 Great point Om. For some reason it is assumed that these celebrities all have some great [hidden] skill in news analysis. Stick to what you know. Drudge or Paul Harvey don’t star in movies for a reason.

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