Wil Wheaton

The Site:

Design: The ex-Star Trek kid actor turned sup𓄧ernerd has become geek famous for his in-depth blog, and the layout is dense bu🌳t 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 observatio🍸ns, interesting links, and blow-by-blo🎶w 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:

Design: The Scott Pilꦬgrim direcಌtor 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, b🤪ut 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 t💖he 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:

Design: Sports a distinctly Gilliam-esque colla🐎ge style which keeps the page bright and easi🃏ly navigable. Dominated by a regularly updated blog thread. 3/5

Content: Very good – there&r꧋squo;s a twitter feed, an active stream of news and nice⛎ly 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 ?) seeꦏms to be the only direc🐷t contact. 3/5

Banjo-osity: Very high. Steve has released two banjo albums and talks about them frequently. 4/5

Ricky Gervais

The Site:

Design: A glorified blog, so no frills, but the content’s easily marked and it gets right to🍰 the point. 3/5

Content: Good. The🍒re 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 tw🐲o of An I♋diot Abroad, for example: “What a whinging Manc twat.” 5/5

Outspokenness: Strong, constantly surprising. 4/5

Jeff Bridges

The Site:

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 conte༒nt 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 photogrඣaphy, with hand𒐪-written captions for every pic. 5/5

Star Input: The 💖entire thing is un🐲iquely, brilliantly Bridges.

Dudeness: Stratospheric. Aside from the general layout, he posts advice like “Please use good netiquette, guys.” 5/5