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There's an outlier in our Foursquare data. Over those seven days in January, the venue with the most check-ins, by far, wasn't a physical location so much as a meme: Snowpocalypse 2011. Planking, the "Internet craze" that's not _really_ an Internet craze, is now spawning copycat moves like "pillaring" and "teapotting." How long until the media gets sick of puffing up the fake meme they created? More » There?s a meme that?s been going around the tech press for months about how Netflix is e Bear Grylls doesn't mind two things: drinking his own pee and having a laugh. The British adventurer is known for his television series _M_… By BRIAN MOSSOP In 2007/08, the work of Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler revealed that human behaviors, and even states of mind, tracked through social networks much like infectious disease. Or put another way, both obesity and happiness worm their way into connected communities just like the latest internet meme, the best Charlie Sheen rumors, [...] Everyone's freaking out about "planking," after an Australian kid died while attempting to lie face down on a balcony railing seven-stories up. How did a years-old meme become the hottest new deadly internet thing? It wasn't the internet's fault. More » From Tickle Me Brooks to Spidey Brooks to LOL Brooks, a new Internet trend is born (Steven Hayward) Notably missing--_so far_--from the media coverage of the Mississippi River flooding is the usual hand-wringing about how this is surely another sign of global warming. Oh, it's out there, you just have to look for it in some of the obscure green news sites and blogs. I've been predicting for a while now that the mainstream media would grow tired of the climate issue, and it looks as though that time may have arrived. (I noted here last month that _Time_ magazine, which has run more harum-scarum covers on global warming than any other major news magazine, seems finally to have grown weary of the meme.) One of the many fronts of the climate argument is the cost of weather-related damage, which is assumed to grow worse with a warmer world. I'll leave aside for today the ferocious argument about whether the U.S. is experiencing an uptrend in extreme weather events like the recent tornadoes (though if you are curious, see Roger Pielke's blog post on the issue, which concludes: "There is at present no indication that the environmental factors conducive to tornado development for this location and time have changed over the ... Folks wonder how Newt plans to build a base for his run for the White House. After all, he has a thirty-plus year record as a complete fuck-up to deal with --but to be fair that record has been sold with word strings clever enough to fool the pundit class into thinking they are rooted in [...] Warner Bros. Television and CBS confirmed Friday that Ashton Kutcher will replace Charlie Sheen on the top-rated comedy series _Two and a Half Me_… It's that one time every year when Keyboard Cat and the Double Rainbow Guy can talk shop over cocktails. _Mashable Comics are illustrated_… The inaugural top ten: AFP: > "Not only does the YouTube 100 give props when fans make original videos for popular songs, it also captures YouTube's one-of-a-kind musical diversity," LaRosa said. > > "YouTube users get into music as fans and original musicians, and our new chart gives the community a better way to find the most engaging music on YouTube." Fast Company: > Take a new chart released by Google today called the YouTube 100. The chart tracks songs across "official music videos, user-uploaded videos and viral debuts, and uses this data to provide a holistic view of song popularity." Indeed, in the current top 10, users will find not only superstars like Katy Perry but meme-worthy acts such as Rebecca Black of "Friday" fame. > > The YouTube 100 joins the ranks of many other services trying to improve the way we chart popularity in the music industry using non-traditional metrics. Media measurement firm Big Champagne, for example, recently released the Ultimate Chart, which culls data from a slew of digital sources: Amazon downloads, Vevo views, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, and more. In December, MTV launched its own Music Meter, a ranking that tracks social media buzz and streaming data ... She's literally everywhere you look these days, and Lady Gaga has landed on the front cover of V Magazine's June 2011 issue. The "Born This Way" singer paid homage to Japan - as it is the magazine's Asian issue and ten percent of the mag's profits will be donated to the recovering country. "I have such beautiful memories of Japan and its people," she says in the issue. "And when the earthquake happened, I knew saying something just wasn't enough. The little monsters have raised over $2 million purchasing these prayers bracelets I made myself. Let's connect cultures from around the world and rebuild this beautiful country." According to MTV, Not only does the issue feature an interview and photo spread with Gaga, it also features her first-ever column for the fashion magazine. Writing in business-memo form, Gaga opens up about her creative process and her ability to tune into the evolution of a pop-culture meme. A female peacock that escaped from the Bronx Zoo last night has been recovered from a local parking garage. The fugitive peahen's freedom was so brief, she never even got a Twitter account. [NYDN] More » Why perpetuate the meme by photoshopping Princes Beatrice's whimsical curlicue Royal Wedding hat onto an existing photo of yourself when you can instead buy the actual thing! More » Obama as Captain America, Defense Secretary Robert Gates as the Martian Manhunter, Hillary Clinton as Wonder Woman -- and more
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