Social networking, at its best, harvests our combined intelligence to create things better than most of us would create on our own. Digg is a pretty good example -- technology news and other nerd news, compiled and gatekept far more effectively than centralized sites like CNN can do. It's the whole war between socialism and capitalism, waged in Media.
And like capitalism, social networking can sometimes be applied to wide ranges of things. Like celebrity. Capitalism promotes Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton to self-destructive heights of stupor and celebrity. Social networking now has an answer: CelebrityGossip.com.
Since CG is the sponsor of this post, and celebrity pictures is the phrase they want me to hyperlink, I've taken the liberty of hyperlinking it. I'm friendly that way. The site is like Digg, in that it features lots of stories with votes and comments. So if you're really in to celeb gossip, I can only assume that it's WAY better than reading People or watching that horrible TV show that used to have that guy who writes all the new age music now. And he has that radio show. John Tesh.
The great advantage a site like Digg has is that 100% of its target audience is online and rating things and posting comments and being geeky. I think for a site like CG to succeed, it needs to make rating and posting easier. Let people rate and post by texting. No need to log in or register -- every post comes with a unique phone number.
And pink?
Not for me.