[Blogalites:  Micah Jesse, Emily Brill, trio Meghan Asha, Julia Allison, Mary Rambin]

Well not exactly.  While you will see them out and about town, generally speaking they won’t be wearing the large over-the-top gowns (but perhaps costumes), and they spend more time behind computer screens than lunching or behind flash bulbs.  Enter the next generation of “socialites” or “blogalites” as we’ve decided to coin them.  Whether a paradigm shift as a result of the falling economy, or a new tech-savy bread, these stripped down Gawker-described fameball microcelebs are taking a post-human approach and have been furiously creating blog appendages to their current selves over the past year.

Some seek fame, some seek fortune or more specifically “fuck you money”, and for some it’s simply unclear what their motivations are.  More»