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{{quote|''"In his [[Wham! Episode|shocking]] [[Milestone Celebration|200th episode]], Strong Bad [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore|turns the entire series on its ear]]. Will we ever see a 201? Is the reign of '''[[Hostile Show Takeover|HR]]'''Emails at hand? For the answers to these questions, be sure and NOT check out [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sadjournal/ my blog]. [[Orphaned Series|I haven't updated that thing in years!]]"''|'''Strong Sad''', ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', "email thunder"}}
With the rise of the internet, a new method of [[No Fourth Wall|breaking the fourth wall]] has been developed; a blog kept under the alias of one of the fictional heroes (or, occasionally, villains) in a comic, show or book. The writing will be done "in character," and readers may be allowed to correspond with the character as if they were a real person.
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* Basically, it makes the character seem more real.
Usually, the [[Character Blog]] is seen as positive, a [[Side
[[Webcomic Time]] can be a headache to such blogs, since the comic may take several weeks to tell a day's worth of story, while the blog is kept in real time.
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* During the first four seasons of Degrassi the next generation, ALL the student characters had their own blogs. But once the show kept getting more extreme and melodramatic, they dropped it. You can find captions and screen shots of some of the entries on fan sites.
** Most current student characters on ''[[Degrassi]]'' have Twitter accounts; none of the faculty do, including the longtime and current media-studies teachers although their actors' accounts are listed on the [http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/degrassi/twitter/ official page].
* Martha Jones from ''[[
* Senator Daniel Perrin from ''[[Dollhouse]]'' has a [http://twitter.com/SENDanielPerrin Twitter account].
* Lloyd from ''[[Entourage]]'' has a blog on HBO's site.
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* Several characters from [[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]] have blogs, chief among them being [http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/ John Watson's].
* One of the earliest character blogs was ''[[Stargate SG 1|Stargate SG-1]]'', which had a website in the early seasons which posted "mission reports" after each new episode, although it didn't mention whether any of the on-screen characters wrote them.
* [[Earth: Final Conflict]] also had these, primarily Augur's site.
* On ''[[True Blood]]'', Jessica Hamby has her own video blog as of season 3, giving partial glimpses into her new life or just providing an extra laugh.
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* The characters in ''[[Dorm Life]]'' get webcams for making their own vlogs. Some of their videos are used to complement the [[Mockumentary]] footage and some are exclusively on the show website.
* Zack, the Cloudcuckoolander cameraman from ''[[Echo Chamber (Web Video)|Echo Chamber]]'', has an in-character [https://twitter.com/#!/DeadCatInABox Twitter account].
** And now Tom's [[Psycho Ex
* [[Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog]], of course... though it's only seen in the actual work.
* Every episode of ''[[The Guild]]'' starts with a short vlog from Codex. It is unclear whether she actually posts these vlogs, or if they're for her own edification.
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