This is sort of a continuation of the rant in my last post "Does the iPod age really know anything?". Again it was thought up at school and after some hardcore eavesdropping I've realised that people are not only "hardwarely"/"softwarely" inept, but that they also don't know anything about the new age of celebrities - cewebrities.
As you have probably noticed from the name, cewebrities is a hybrid word that comes from "celebrity" and "web", i.e. People who have or are doing something interesting, solely on the interwebs. I like to refer to cewebrities as: People who are famous but aren't. If I were (again) to go into the street and ask people who Sarah Austin, Leo Laporte, Smosh or Alex Albrecht were, I would guess they wouldn't know. (But maybe they're too busy idolising the newest "Big Bro" star or struggling to hold back the insatiable need to read Heat magazine).
It seems that once someone hears the words Internet or computer in a sentence, they switch off, or they just have an automatic reflex which causes them to talk about shopping as soon as these words appear. For example, I was talking to a friend about how I was IMing Wil Harris (from ChannelFlip, a web based Internet TV channel) however my friend didn't want to listen to a word of it:
Me: "Guess what?"
Him: "What?... This better not be about Mahalo Daily"
Me: "Noo - something even better!"
Him: "Go on..."
Me: "I was talking to Wil Harris - you knowm the guy who does that interne--"
Him: "-- Wow, look at that seagull out there!"
I think that people should be educated about these new stars, as you will be probably watching or using something that they have made, in the near future. To be honest - I would much prefer to learn about this than how tectonic plates move...
I think that sites like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Plurk and edopter are helping to discover new cewebrities through the power of following updates - or if you prefer, stalking. Cewebrities aren't as arrogant as celebrities and, personally, I find them more interesting. (Why do I need to know that Wayne Rooney paid several million pounds, that he earned by kicking balls, for his wedding?)
Hopefully there will be an increase of the number of cewebrities helping to expedite people's understanding of the general interwebs and new technologies. (But I certainly hope celebrities don't try and be Internet stars. If Jade Goody joined the Internet revolution I would have to eat my iPod as well as my hat).
1 comment:
ceweblebreties is pretty good. I always said Weblebreties, but I think I like them both.
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