Public event listings on Facebook have been used to influence politics and organize protests. But now events organized through Facebook–and their chaotic aftermath–may just lead to…a modeling contract?
Voters who use only a wireless phone are being undercounted by political pollsters. Given that these voters skew young, that young voters (according to USA Today) favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a margin of 61 to 32 percent, and that many polls don’t include wireless phones in their samples, it seems there would be a discrepancy in poll results–leaning toward the Republican hemisphere. Don’t forget to vote, my friends.
A decade and a half after releasing its previous album, Guns N’ Roses plans to put out a new song in September–on the video game Rock Band 2.
Viacom’s MTV kicks off 2008 by announcing that it streamed 1.2 billion videos from its music-oriented Web sites last year, and that those Web sites attracted an average of 30 million uniques per month. Viacom has worked mightily in the last year to explain how committed it is to the Web, and frequently trumpets stats like these to make its case (other favorites: 300 Web sites, 90 million uniques across all of its sites, $500 million earmarked for video-game investment, etc.).
What do I do now?
In 1991, I released my first record on MCA (or MCI, as my mom always mistakenly told her friends, hoping to impress them). I was bummed, as I had just missed the opportunity to have my face big on an album cover. But vinyl was over, and the CD format (with [...]
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