Wil Wheaton
The Site: WilWheaton.Typepad.com
Design: The ex-Star Trek kid actor turned supernerd has become geek famous for his in-depth blog, and the layout is dense but clean enough to be easily readable. 3/5
Content: Wheaton is a prolific blogger, and the main feed is updated several times a week with observations, interesting links, and blow-by-blow accounts of conventions and work. The site also features Wheaton’s podcast, and readings from his latest book. 5/5
Star Input: The blog is absolutely all Wheaton’s work, and he’s the star attraction. 5/5
Authentic geekiness: Wheaton isn’t acting: he’s the genuine comic-reading, convention-loving, Dungeons & Dragons playing article. 5/5
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright: EdgarWrightHere.com
Design: The Scott Pilgrim director has given his site a snazzy Spectrum loading-screen style background and a very clear layout, focusing on the central feed of posts. Smart. 4/5
Content: Not overflowing, but bang up to date. Posts come a couple of times a week, and there’s also a daily photo section (which isn’t daily, but does have awesome shots of Edgar’s time in Japan with Michael Cera), and the occasional video link. 4/5
Star Input: It’s all Mr Wright’s own work, from the excitement over the recently released Tintin trailers ("I believe the term is 'Blistering barnacles!'") to his support of fan mash-up videos. 5/5
Retro feel: Powerful. Aside from the 28k background, there’s also a retro blog category featuring Wright’s older adventures. 4/5
Steve Martin
The Site: SteveMartin.com
Design: Sports a distinctly Gilliam-esque collage style which keeps the page bright and easily navigable. Dominated by a regularly updated blog thread. 3/5
Content: Very good – there’s a twitter feed, an active stream of news and nicely presented back-catalogue stuff, including some original web-only material. 4/5
Star Input: The whole site’s stamped with Martin’s personality (“The internet’s only website” the header reads), but the occasional drop of material (remember the fake Steve Martin rider list ?) seems to be the only direct contact. 3/5
Banjo-osity: Very high. Steve has released two banjo albums and talks about them frequently. 4/5
Ricky Gervais
The Site: RickyGervais.com
Design: A glorified blog, so no frills, but the content’s easily marked and it gets right to the point. 3/5
Content: Good. There are links to all of Ricky’s work – feature films, Extras, The Office, HBO – but the real star is the regularly updated blog. 4/5
Star Input: Gervais himself updates the blog several times a week, and the content is as honest and occasionally confrontation as you’d expect. On Karl Pilkington, having seeing a rough cut of season two of An Idiot Abroad, for example: “What a whinging Manc twat.” 5/5
Outspokenness: Strong, constantly surprising. 4/5
Jeff Bridges
The Site: JeffBridges.com
Design: Outstanding. And sort of crazy. The Tron and True Grit star paints and draws individual pieces of art to use as links to the content on his totally unique official site. 5/5
Content: Equally brilliant. There’s a constant stream of news on Bridges’ film and music work, but the highlight is his huge archive of on-set photography, with hand-written captions for every pic. 5/5
Star Input: The entire thing is uniquely, brilliantly Bridges.
Dudeness: Stratospheric. Aside from the general layout, he posts advice like “Please use good netiquette, guys.” 5/5
