En Attendant Bloggo (Act Two)

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There's a famous line about how in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. There's a less well known rejoinder that everyone will be a tiny bit famous all the time.

Sometimes it feels like everyone can be a microcelebrity, by appearing on "reality" television, putting mp3s of them singing on MySpace...and keeping a blog.

Some use their blog to collect things. Music, videos of people diving into swimming pools, or news reports about what happens when police officers get a new toy.

Some intend to educate, about the fine lines between pornography, legitimate art, and extreme silliness, vital info on great cultural icons, or how strange people are most amusing.

Against the odds, some actually do educate, about the history of Indian mathematics, how to play the bass guitar, teaching English as a foreign language, customising your computer, and what environmentalism really means.

With the internet's democratisation of political discussion, there's no shortage of blogs offering indispensable insight, exposing the anti-American bias inherent in the liberal media elite, proving that atheists worship Satan, and that the lib'rals are the true bigots. One of these is satire, but which?

While you're working that one out, you can download a selection of really bad Hollywood films, but it's good because they're free.

And finally, no gay man is complete without his Madonna fixation, his pierced right ear (or is it the left? I can never remember), and his blog. But there is variety - some collect pictures of handsome men, others write about sex all the time...and some watch an awful lot of porn. Alphabetically.

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