Kanye West Ghost Blogger Controversy Timeline
I kept up with Kanye West's blog until I realized that whoever was doing the blogging was jacking design photos and not linking out or giving anybody any credit.
Now that the Ghost Blogger "controversy" has reared its head, I took another look and they're at least giving out more names and information than before, so I'm really glad to see that though linking out would be a nice gesture.
That said, nobody who actually blogs on a daily basis ever believed that Kanye West was doing all the blogging. But suddenly it's a topic of conversation because Kanye posted on the topic.
Kanye West Ghost Blogging Controversy Timeline:
Marcus Troy says Kanye has a ghost blogger and offers such services to other celebrities.
Sandra Rose claims Marcus is Kanye's ghost blogger and creates a graphic featuring Kanye facing Marcus.
[via Fake Shore Drive whose services are also available]
Kanye defends his honor with photos revealing that he can lean over a computer, focus his eyes in the direction of the screen and gently touch the keyboard.
In typical Team Kanye blogging fashion, he also jacks the graphic from Sandra Rose without attribution, doesn't link out to anybody and doesn't provide real evidence of anything relevant other than the fact that he or somebody on his team reads Sandra Rose.
Note: Marcus did not claim to be Kanye's ghost blogger. Sandra said he was and then Kanye may have misread things, though it's hard to tell when he just rants and leaves, but he seems to be implying to some in his post that Marcus was claiming to be Kanye's ghost blogger to get attention.
But Kanye don't have time to pay attention to the details! He's too busy blogging!! LOL!!!
Which brings up the only question I have.
Who takes all those pictures of Kanye on his blog?
[And how do they sleep at night?]
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Its obvious that Kanye can't update his blog that much, (Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know this),but the question is still whether Marcus Troy actually does, or whether he's just using this for self-promotion. I'm sure his site got a lot of extra hits just because of the controversy.
Posted by: Aura | July 17, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Marcus Troy wrote a decent blog post about an interesting topic.
He did NOT claim to be Kanye's ghost blogger.
That's on Sandra Rose and on Kanye West not really paying attention and making the claim that Marcus is doing it for publicity.
Of course he wants people to read his blog but he didn't make that claim, Sandra did and Kanye misread.
Posted by: Clyde Smith | July 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM
You make very good points. When I first heard about his (kanye's) blog.. I was hyped to see things thru his eyes. Then I realized he wasn't doing it... Its shame he takes stuff from other websites and blogs and doesn't credit them. Point he did credit Perez hilton one time...LOL!!! I guess all kanye knows is sampling.. great blog...
Posted by: Natasha Robinson | July 17, 2008 at 12:51 PM
I know the writer's real identity:
http://music.pluggedin.com/blog/?p=517
Posted by: Seth Shellhouse | July 17, 2008 at 06:42 PM