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Listen up all you blog babes, there's a new breed of internet famous personage in cyber town: they're mostly women and they're attracting a whole lot of attention and a big bunch of money!

No longer hiding behind male pen-names women are blogging about love, sex and piss-poor relationships. Often gilded as vacuous and ditsy, regardless of the content they're communicating, these women actually have an acute awareness of where new media can take them.

Technology has unleashed their cyber kundalini and these femmes fatales are not taking it lying down.

Strap yourself into your ergonomic chair and get ready for some online karma sutra as we take a tour through the sites of some new media fameballs.


Tracie Egan blogged about male apendages on One D at a Time until she landed a respectable job as editor on Jezebel
"I obviously have gone from one D at a time to one D all the time, so consuming men like they're tapas isn't a part of my life anymore." Our post pick Horny Girl Interrupted

Zoe Margolis a Girl with a One-Track Mind details the ins-and-outs of her sex life. "A sexist double-standard about male vs female sexuality still exists, which chastises women if they express sexual wants and needs; I hoped my blog would provide a counter-balance to this old-fashioned attitude." With six million readers, Observer ranked it at number 24 in their Top 50 Most Powerful Blogs in the World. Ho hum!

Tila Tequila is a Singapore-born Vietnamese internet celebrity best known, among other things, for her position as the most popular artist on MySpace (according to page views) and landed herself the MTV reality show A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Love her or hate her, this is a girl who sure knows how to brand herself

From waitress to celeb, Justine Ezarik was the first performer on YouTube to land a mainstream media contract after filming her life for six months with a camera strapped to a baseball cap. This viral video queen is best known as iJustine, a lifecaster communicating with hundreds of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, she gets 600,000 views a week for a video about her wanting to order a cheeseburger. Go figure?

Like I said, no longer a self-indulgent hobby but serious business. Now grab your keyboard and start blogging, er twittering, I mean Myspacing ... whatever. Just get online!






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Shit I'm Hot!
New York magazine once referenced link whore Julia Allison as "the most famous young journalist in the city."
Love her or hate her ... she don't care. Why? Because she's where every self respecting blogger wants to be - on top!



I might go like this with my finger alot, but I'm no bimbo honey!
Samantha Brett, a salaried blogger with Sydney Morning Herald, used her blog to leverage a book, TV show and is in talks with E! News about a reality TV show.



While blog fruitybeauty.com.au never made Zoe Foster any money, it was the launch pad for book contract Air Kisses and landed her a role as editor for beauty website Primped.com.au which has attracted 552,000 in under four months.