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AMERICAN DIGEST —
... The reaction to his death? Yet another milestone on the Road of Our Decline. ...
Clearing the Cache: Keeping .Gov Weird
techPresident —
... Iranian government is trying to crowdsource the identification of protesters.
Speaking of crowdsourced IDing, NPR's Dollar Short is asking for helping figuring out who's who amongst the lobbyists assembled at a recent Senate health care hearing. (Thanks Bryan Campen)
Hey, it worked for Iran, didn't it? The New York Times tries live-blogging Michael Jackson's death.
A passing which seems to have broken the Internet.
And the Iran-meets-Michael mash-ups were, in ...
A Moment of Perspective
A Blog For All —
... , and the world's focus is not on the brutality of the regime, but instead on the death of Michael Jackson. In fact, Jackson's death may have accomplished something that even Iran's Ahmadinejad could have only dreamed of - it reduced Twitter to a trickle . Twitter crashed as users saw multiple "fail whales" -- the illustrations the site uses as error messages -- user FoieGrasie posting, "Irony: The protesters in Iran using twitter as com are unable to get online because of all the posts of 'Michael Jackson RIP.' Well done." The site's status blog said that Twitter had had to ...
Tabloid Journalism or a Tabloid Population?
Newshoggers.com —
... , until the death of Michael Jackson. My initial reaction would be to criticize the media but that would be wrong I think. The profit and viewer driven media is giving the the tabloid population what they want - news that looks like a reality show. When our civilization finally collapses it won't be the result of the tabloid journalism but because tabloid journalism is what the people wanted. ...
The Mullahs Smile (con't)
Mudville Gazette —
Yesterday: "Twitter appears to be crashing under the strain, which indicates it's not that useful for really big news.".
It wasn't just Twitter - and I wasn't the only one who noticed: "Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson," a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google ...
Saturday morning links
Maggie's Farm —
... We had nothing to say about Michael Jackson's death. I see it stressed the intertubes. And I also saw that noted music critic Sipp offered an appreciation: ...
GOP Offers ‘Michael Jackson’ Cap & Trade Alternative
ScrappleFace —
(2009-06-27) — Senate Republicans today introduced an “innovative alternative” to the 1,300-page cap-and-trade climate change bill which passed the House 219-212 virtually-unread Friday night as the nation sat transfixed by wall-to-wall coverage of the death of an iconic pop singer.
Supporters said the GOP-sponsored ‘Michael Jackson Energy Act’ will clear away a raft of environmental regulations that currently discourage construction of nuclear power plants, and will spark energy independence while reducing emissions of so-called greenhouse gases.
The 1,897-page Michael Jackson Energy bill ...
Michael Jackson Link Collection, Part 1
The Moderate Voice —
Michael Jackson died on Thursday, June 25. The online entertainment tabloid, TMZ.com, was the first to report the news, although the reports of his death had not been officially confirmed at the time. You will notice in the brief story TMZ filed, the word “confirm” or “confirmed” did not appear:
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.
Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse ...
What If Reports Of Michael Jackson's Death Had Been Greatly Exaggerated?
JustOneMinute —
... , presumably to the tune of "Bleat It": Wow. Let me take a stab - I suppose a lot of people would have tried to re-upload "Thriller" . Can that be done at I-Tunes? The LA Times soldiers on: Hmm, we are talking about celebrity-watching here. I don't know what the rules are, if any, but my guess is that speed is prized over accuracy (Let me check that with my high school and college girls...). The descent into fantasy continues:OK, I'll accept the point that gossip and rumor were not invented after Facebook and Twitter. But let's stay with that theme: A curious thing is ...
