Drew Curtis is micro famous for his large presence online and involvement in off beat news aggregation. Fark started because Curtis liked to share news stories with his friends when in college and channeled his hobby into a website. Once Fark took off, he leveraged his fame into a multi-million dollar business and a best seller book on Amazon.

EconCeleb is a conference at the Rosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California, about modern day celebrity. I interviewed Rafat Ali and Staci D. Kramer from PaidContent, a website that covers the media landscape as it transitions to the digital age, and Harvey Levin, the founding editor of TMZ, a website about celebrity news. These bloggers are on the cutting edge of media and where it’s going.

Veronica Belmont has leveraged her internet fame off a variety of different platforms. She has networked her way to the top and is one to look out for. Currently she is co-hosting Tekzilla.

I asked Veronica how she did it. She says, “I think the most important thing is to cross-promote between networks. I obviously use different networks for different reasons, and so attracting people from one place (like Twitter) to another (like Flickr or Facebook) is relatively easy if you have good content to show them.”

Jessica Rose, the star of lonelygirl15 returns to the web with a new horror series called Dead Cell Dead Friend (watch official trailer here)

Stuff provides a nice background on the new production led by 60 Frames entertainment.

YouTube fame Caitlin Hill writes an interesting post about being inspired by Rose to videoblog.

Rachel Sterne and I went out to report on people’s stories with the economy. Rachel is the founder and CEO of Ground Report, a place to share stories and participate in citizen journalism, and she frequently submits reports.

Rachel says, “GroundReport.com is a citizen journalism platform that lets people share their stories and earn money based on traffic. Our goal is to democratize the media. We ventured out onto the streets… to ask people for on-the-ground perspectives of the effects of the economy in New York City– and get a personal look at an international issue.”

I stopped by Beet.TV to check out Andy Plesser‘s Manhattan studio and find out more about what Beet.TV is up to.

I have received several emails asking what equipment I use to make my daily show so I thought I would show you how it’s done in today’s episode.

My set has low budget basics including lighting, microphone and a HDV camera.

If you have any questions leave a comment or email me: Sarah at Pop17 dot com.