Talking tech is fun, but even more so when celebs get in on the act. First up is Paris Hilton, who in a recent interview admitted her complete and utter ignorance of blogosphere:
Reporter: Do you read blogs?
Paris: What’s that?
Reporter: Um, they’re these things on the Internet where people write about news and stuff.
Paris: No, I don’t really read anything on the Internet except my AOL mail. I don’t like people who sit on computers all day long and write about people they don’t know anything about.
You tell ‘em, Paris. While you’re at it, try to take better care of your electronic equipment. First the Sidekick gets hacked, now we get word that your laptop has been lost. Guess she’s in the midst of a move-in with her boyfriend of the same name and, according to her publicist, “A lot of stuff is in flux.”
Next up is Al Gore, the self-proclaimed inventor of the Internet, who will be receiving a Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement next month to honor his work toward promoting The Information Superhighway. True, he caught a big backlash for a remark some say was twisted out of context, but as this Yahoo! article points out, he did do a lot for the telecommunications industry. Watch poor Al get alternately ripped apart and defended by the crowd on the WizBang blog.
