I could understand spelling “Rich Rodriguez” wrong on say, a fashion site, or maybe a movie site, something that doesn’t have to do with sports, but Scout.com had Michigan head football coach Rich Rodriguez’s name spelled wrong for hours today on their home page. Because I know how crappy it feels to do that and wait anxiously for the page to finally refresh, I’ll at least link the article.
While my country music allegiances will always go with Carrie Underwood for overall fandom, Taylor Swift’s second album actually outsold Carrie Underwood’s and her straightforward songwriting and fun personality make her someone that’s hard not to love.
After giving a little preview on Twitter, Taylor Swift (T-Swizzle) teamed up with hip hop’s biggest singer of hooks, T-Pain, to deliver a “Thug Story” at the CMT Awards. It was nothing short of awesome.
I will not lie and say that I know everything that is going on with the counting of votes in regards to the election in Iran, but it’s clearly a big issue that has spawned some really interesting ways that people are trying to not only show their support, but show what’s going on way, way over the pond.
So while reporters and professional journalists are being forced to stay inside to avoid being arrested, people are broadcasting the protests on YouTube, showing that the conflict is real and no where near finished. On Twitter, people are changing their avatars to green (which I haven’t done because I personally feel like I need to be more informed before making a statement like that), to support democracy in Iran.
It’s all very powerful stuff. It shows how much the Internet is changing how we become aware of not only silly, worldly things, like fashion, celebrity gossip, and Heidi Montag being in Playboy in September (sorry, just had to drop that in there) and also how we go about getting this information. ????? ???????? ?a??a
Check out this chart that shows the number of Twitter tweets in the past 30 days that say the word “Iran” in them. News spreads so quickly and snowballs at an unbelievable rate with microblogging and bookmarking and it’s very powerful to see how so many people who might have otherwise not been aware of stories like this are being exposed to it through these mediums.
For the first time in at least two years, I jump roped this weekend for IBeatYou.com’s “How Many Rope Jumps in 10 Seconds” competition. As of Sunday night, I was winning, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll eventually be beaten. Even if I lose, I don’t think anyone else will jump rope between a car and a dumpster covered in bird doodoo’s.
I did some other stuff, but this is the only thing on the Internet that people can see outside of my Twitter updates
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On a side note, I’m a huge fan of IBeatYou.com and the great people that work there. It’s a competitive social network where users can create competitions for pretty much anything using content from around the web, writing, drawing, or taking videos of themselves. You can pretty much make a competition out of anything and if you spend a little bit of time on the site, you’ll see pretty much everything. If you haven’t already, join!
In the clips that will inevitably get taken down from YouTube over and over, you can clearly hear Eminem saying, “Are you serious right now? Are you f*cking serious right now? Get this motherf*cker off me.”
Personally, I found this to be incredibly disrespectful, whether that be on the part of the show’s producers or Sacha Baron Cohen, towards Eminem, who has made very few public appearances since the death of his best friend Proof and his stint in rehab. I understand the argument that Eminem is a prankster and that he deserves to be pranked every now and again by entertainment’s latest prankster, but I feel like this wasn’t the right time to do something like this with Eminem. I know that Eminem doesn’t pull any punches in his lyrics, but if he wasn’t in on this very public, very viral prank, it feels like it might have gone a little too far to put a bare ass in his face on national television.
True, it’s not much different than Eminem mocking a singer or celebrity on an album, but something about this just didn’t feel right. I can’t really explain why, but Eminem isn’t Asher Roth these days and I’d hope that as one of the few remaining artists that can truly move the needle on album sales, he’d get a little bit more respect. That being said, perhaps this was a case of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and a proverbial passing of the torch to the next generation of prankster if Slim Shady is bowing out from that title.
This video will inevitably be taken down, but check it out while it lasts:
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