CNET News.com feature: Gossip blogs get casting call

Before leaving for the office Tuesday morning, I left a note for my housemates on top of our television. "Won't be home till late. I'm DVRing TMZ TV and the new Perez Hilton show. Please do not delete the recordings. This is for work, not a joke."

I'm not one for celebrity gossip. I try to stay on top of what's being talked about, but I don't keep up with Britney's latest epidermal exposures or whether Jessica Alba is single, and the only time I watch the E network is when it's playing on the TV in front of the only unoccupied treadmill at the gym.

But the syndicated TMZ TV, which premiered on Monday, and the VH1 series What Perez Sez, which introduced its first event tie-in on Tuesday night with footage surrounding the weekend's MTV Video Music Awards, piqued my interest as a digital-media junkie.

Read the rest of the CNET News.com story here.

[momule]

sigh

Even writing here in response to your text gives lie to what I feel, even being here makes me feel like a hippocrite but...

Well, never mind, I guess we all have our own degrees of how much we buy into the celebrity world as well as this whole blog nonsense. I DO wish I was fishing and not sitting here in front of the monitor wanting to call you lots of names.

Call me conflicted.....