Meet the bloggers.Blogger: Bradford Shellhammer, 29, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Blog: www.queerty.com Launch date: August 2005 Unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month: 250,000 Goal: "To give the gays something fun and entertaining to read on their companies' clock." Awards: Best GLBT GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered Weblog See blog and Web log. (World-Wide Web) weblog - (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. at the 2006 Bloggies Ideal reader: "Someone who laughs at themselves as much as they laugh at others." Why you started: "To serve my ego." Time spent posting per day:. "A full three hours a day at least. But it's a collaborative site--I'm now just the editor at large. Our editor, The Real World's Dan Renzi, took over this past month. I just watch him from afar." How you pay your bills: "I work for Design Within Reach, write for Queerty, and freelance for several magazines. And I'm in grad school at Parsons." Biggest scoop: "We did a critique of Project Runway before Bravo aired it." Sexiest post: "Every morning we have a diverse, hot, nearly naked guy in our Morning Goods section." Strangest post: "I've interviewed Santino Rice, Holly Woodlawn, Joan Rivers, Lady Bunny, and Bruce Vilanch. They're all pretty strange, right?" Biggest competition: "Do blogs have competition? We're always compared to my friend Andy Towle's site, TowleRoad.com." Pros of blogging: "Expression, notoriety, and free stuff." Cons of blogging: "Overexposure overexposure too long an exposure time or too high a milliamperage causing too black a picture, loss of detail and some anomalies of translucency. , always being found on Google, and exhaustion." Marital status marital status, n the legal standing of a person in regard to his or her marriage state. : "I have a loving partner, Ben, who tolerates blogs." |
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