Fame and Blogging

I've been wondering. What exactly is it that makes blogs so popular? I mean, sitting here in my computer room in Kuching, one can already hear and know of many famous blogs that get daily hits by the k. But what is it about the blogging styles and content of these blogs that make people want to read them so much?

Let's try and analyze a few.

Kenny Sia of kennysia.com.
Probably the most famous Kuching blogger. He blogs about things ranging from all the sweet stuff he gets from companies to his own personal life and travel. With his sense of self injected coconut humour, his posts range from small one photo 3 sentences posts to a post that takes 3 minutes for me to load. Rather obviously it's his way or writing that can make people rotfl and smile no matter what they're doing (try reading a few of his comments. There usually are stuff like that) or be very blunt on his own perspective OR inadvertently cause arguments when blogging about windows screens.

Wendy of Xiaxue.blogspot.com
Famous Singaporean blogger. Description are subjective to the person who is reading. Has a VERY pink blog and is described as a bimbo blog. She's selling Pixel spaces on her blog!!!!!! And people BUY okay! She blogs constantly about herself and got a Nose Job! She's so famous people even bother to HACK into her account and delete her blog. I don't know exactly WHAT you get from reading her blog, but it's famous alright.

Jason Goh of Smashpop.net
A rather well known Malaysian blogger for food entries, event coverages and his jumps? The guys photographs are good, the food makes you salivate if you read on a hungry stomach and he looks like UGS-er Tay. I'm not kidding. Even Bugger Wen Qi says so. I don't see him blogging any controversial stuff or anything else that's got to do with politics or datuks or what ever, so I can safely say this is more of a light read? Atm his total page views stand at 203698, so that's gotta count for something.
Fireangel of Fireangel.com What's her real name I don't know. Whether you've heard of her anot I also have no clue. Her blog isn't really updated frequently, there's a truck load of curse words in her posts and cam-whoring is a ritual for her. It's not really Xiaxue, not really Mayzhee...sort of an in between? Her own personal style I guess. There are 30-40 comments on each or her rare posts so she probably has a loyal band of blog-followers?



MrBrown of mrbrown.com
I suppose that's his name? Mr Brown? Famous Singaporean blogger for his podcasts particularly because of Zhng my Car. A spin off Pimp my ride with what seems to me a cooler name. According to wikipedia "His podcast attracts some 20,000 downloads per day". I don't know much because I don't read his blog nor listen to his podcasts, but I know enough to say he's a semi serious blogger? Not bland and stiff, yet not bimbo and "Lee Kuan Yew? Isn't that a school?". Yeap, people read/listen to his stuff. Last but not least.
Cheesie of Cheeserland.com Don't ask me her name! This would be classified under the "super kiut kawaii until can *squeal* peng!" kinda blog. I guess she's somewhat a model? Beauty Queen? Shopping enthusiast (shopaholic isn't too nice a word). She even has her own Wardrobe where she sells her clothes! Marketing through the blogosphere. Ingenious much? Has a lot of puns, usually concerning cheese...or bunnies...or pink? Her blog is...(for lack of better word)...Cheesy ^.^

Okay...So what is it that these blogs have that attracts people who go online everyday to check out their sites and read their words be it purple, black, blue, green, purple...?

Is it the humour? Is it the different perspectives? The fact that they don't wanna buy books? They're madly infatuated with the blogger?

Then what about bimbo blogs? Why are people so attracted to other peoples blatant narcissism? AND THEIR obsessions with PINK. Bimbo blogs always seem to be pink...Or not. The cute-ish-ness of it? Mild Porn?

When I find out, I'll come back and post it. But till then, people who are reading this, try and answer the question.

What makes blogs (any blog, yours mine, hers, his, its) so popular?

(The fact that it's mine is not an answer.)

P.S: Any of the aforementioned bloggers above have any problem with my template stealing habits, leave a line and I'll remove it.

I was here wondering, pondering, thinking, obsessing...