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...Passage - it has to exist in order to prove that citizens can learn about public life without the mediation of professionals." If the measure of a successful citizen journalist is popularity, then Trent Vanegas comes out on top. Without any media background whatsoever, Vanegas has created a celebrity gossip blog - Pink Is the New Blog - that has become a favorite among celebrities, their publicists and the average American, bringing the blog over 200,000 visitors a month. Writing with tact, Vanegas fills his posts with entertaining captions and star-studded images superimposed with tongue-in-cheek thought bubbles. Vanegas recently...
...When did you start Pink Is The New Blog and why? I started Pink Is the New Blog in June 2004, but it was actually an offshoot of my original blog that I started in August of 2002. The whole reason I started blogging in the first place was because I wanted to get into the habit of writing every single day, and I thought that if I did it online, and if there was an audience - even if the audience as small as my parents and my friends who I made read my blog - that I would have this...
...Trent Vanegas TIME clicks in with the creator of celebrity gossip blog Pink Is The New Blog...
...think your blog is better than other celebrity blogs? I try to give it a little personality, to inject as much of me into it as I can. I don?t necessarily cater the text toward audiences, but I kind of feel like I?m talking with them. I try to make it very conversational and put in everyday speech. I don?t say "holla" and I don?t say "y?all," but I think it gives it a more familial feel. People feel like they?re reading a friend?s website, and that?s what I try to have...
...race that the bloggers were already gaining respect. A bunch of presidential candidates showed up to the Daily Kos convention in June. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and other top party officials have met with MoveOn.org staffers to discuss strategy. And in recent weeks, Hillary Clinton has hired a blog outreach adviser and called for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, two moves that could help her win the favor of the liberal activists if she decides to run for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. Now that the Netroots' power has been cemented, any Democratic presidential candidate will...