I've been wildly into gossip blogs since 2004 and for the life of me, I'd never have imagined that they would turn out to be incredible driving forces on the Web. Perez Hilton, back when his site was known as PageSixSixSix.com, was one of my first favorites, along with Pink is the New Blog and The Bastardly (which I eventually stopped visiting due to some users' hateful, ignorant comments about Asians).

You can't blame anyone for loving them--people just adore reading about the latest dirt on celebrities. An interesting post on DoshDosh also talks about why entertainment sites make a lot of money.

I'd love to start a blog that also dishes out gossip on Philippine celebrities, but unfortunately, people here are just too sensitive sometimes and celebrities will no doubt start suing me for defamation, plus here's no doubt that it will deteriorate into a flame war between fans of GMA 7 and ABS-CBN. Too bad, I already have a name for such a blog: "Gossip Hound--A nose for dirt," or something like that.