The In-Crowd

Blogging has taken off worldwide. Almost everyone with a computer is getting in on the act. According to Technorati there is a new blog started every second.

With blogging, just as in every other community, there are cliques. There are the cool kids and then there's everyone else. The cool kids hang-out at sites such as Gawker a site that says it "sets the agenda for the entertainment weeklies, gossip columns such as Page Six, and the soft sections of newspapers such as the New York Times."

So you want to be on the A-List? The key is to get linked to. That means you have to write about what people want to read about and the hot-topics on Gawker at the moment include such entralling subjects as the most recent exploits Paris Hilton and Tara Reid. To be fair, the list also includes Matt Drudge and the New York Times, but there is a lot of gossip and celebrity crap on the site.

So become one of the 70,000 new bloggers getting on the web today, pick any useless topic, tell your blogger friends to link to you, and you could be on the list of "compulsory reading for New York editors and reporters."