TMZ.com adds Zennie62.com to its blogroll

TMZ.com, other than The Huffington Post, is arguably the most successful online news organization in the World today. This blogger and the growing staff of bloggers at Zennie62.com, have been big fans of TMZ.com, and now we're a part of them.

OK, Zennie62.com is a part of TMZ.com's blogroll, but it's an honor to be there and in a place where you can always find it: at the alphabetical end of the list, the only "Z" in the place.

We share a space with legendary blogs and bloggers like Perez Hilton, Pop Sugar, The Huffington Post, Celeb Show and Tell, and others. But most important, we're a small part of a new revolution in media. TMZ's blogroll consists of blogs that understand media is market and cover the hot stories and provide interesting commentary.

But what makes Zennie62.com unique in the group is its video-blog component, featuring Blip.tv and YouTube.com, and what will be an increased use of CNN's iReport and Tubemogul.com. And that our content is part of The Heart Corporations' online publications and featuring SFGate.com and Seattle P.I.com.

Harvey Levin: TMZ's Driving Force

Harvey Levin is a person who's face you probably recognize from The People's Court as he's the on-the-steet announcer for the show. But Levin's TMZ.com's managing editor and driving force. Harvey may have his critics - we all do - but he understands that news media is a kind of market, and where others may complain about its celebrity content or the controversial way it gathers news, Levin's just giving the public what it wants. TMZ's earned over $10 million annually over the past three years and over $20 million in 2008.

Here's Levin explaining how TMZ works to get news out and hit on stories it thinks will click in a "boom, boom, boom" fashion:



And here Levin attacked the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department for illegally obtaining his cell phone to investigate who leaked the Mel Gibson "Drunken Anti-Semetic Rant" story. Levin claimed the the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department act was a violation of his civil rights.



On CNN this year, Harvey Levin talks more about the Mel Gibson story and how that unfolded as well as the team of journalists, lawyers, and researchers that vet the stories which are posted on TMZ's website.



Zennie62 is proud to be part of TMZ's family and marks a new era in the evolution of the video-blog network I'm building.

Stay tuned.