In all honesty, before commencing semester B of this year, I thought blogging was completely self-indulgent and self-important. My only experience of blogging was perusing through peoples myspace blogs and their accounts of the week they had had (boyfriends, bitching and nights out appeared to be on the minds of the people in my particular network) I thought "Why does anyone care what my favourite food is and what music I'm listening to at the minute?" (of course this has not changed) but my perception of a blogger has in the broader sense changed dramatically.
I have looked at Lily Allen's blog. Lily Allen is known for being new media friendly (she started her career through myspace.com) and regularly updates her blog. She has famously used it to talk about other celebrities, but more importantly than that, she uses it to set the record straight as far as the paparazzi, papers and trashy magazines are concerned. For the first time we can have a regular updated view of celebrity and the stories that are true and their take on the ones that aren't. I understand that it would be easy for her or any other celebrity to put across a certain image of themselves which is not true either, however you get the feeling whilst reading her blog that she is simply speaking her mind, there are certain candid and tongue in cheek moments, but they add to her accessibility, and you seem to feel although you're getting the tales straight from the horses mouth. I'm not sure that many other celebrities could pull this off as well, and even if we are getting the view of her that she wants us to see, it must be better than having her persona shaped by a magazine reporter that would love some controversy?
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