Information Madness

Looks like Celebrities are now becoming more and more tech savvy. Celebrities are realising the power of internet and social networking. Stephen Colbert, an actor who runs his daily show The Colbert Report on Comedy Central is famous after he got his "Greatest Living American" award. But now according to CNN, Stephen Colbert won "Webby Person of the Year" award.

According to the CNN's story, Colbert attracted almost 78 users/minute to his facebook page and fans racked up donations at DonorsChoose.org. So internet became media for celebrities are their fans. Very few celebrities know the power of internet. 

What about Indians? Do we have Greatest Living Indian? Well there is site called GreatIndiansAwards.com which hosts awards for great living indians. Does India have celebrities like Stephen Colbert who knows the power of internet? Yes, we have couple of them who have started to use Blog as the medium to communicate with their fans.

Aamir Khan, who launched his blog at Aamir Khan to start Chating has launched customized chatting application so that he can talk to his fans directly. The Experience With Live Chat on AamirKhan.com was not that great as there were hundreds and thousands of users. Single post at Aamir Khan's blog brings thousands of comments.

Similarly, Amitabh Bachchan started his own blog at BigAdda. Amitabh Bachchan mentioned in one of his recent blog entry about having his own website developed by Zapak.com. So the trend is catching up, Indian celebrities are also using social networking, blogging as their medium to reach to their millions of fans.

So who would be next? Shahrukh Khan?