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Chinese love their having Internets censored: Pew

Monday, March 31st, 2008

According to findings from the fourth and most recent of a series of surveys about internet use in China from 2000 to 2007, over 80% of respondents say they think the internet should be managed or controlled, and in 2007, almost 85% say they think the government should be responsible for doing it. –Pew, Most [...]

This week in Rickroll: Firefoxin, live rickrolling, mainstream press

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Update: Perez Hilton picks up that Rick Astley will be touring in the UK this year (!!) We smelled a rickroll revival 3 weeks ago… and a revival we’ve had. A roundup of the latest in rickrolling: Search trends for “rickroll” and “rick roll” circa March 3rd, 2008: vs. today, March 25th, 2008… Out of [...]

tinaecmusic returns, aims for #1 on internet

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Perez Hilton’s karaoke lovechild tinaecmusic is back… and she wants to take the throne. No less than #1 on YouTube and MySpace. You may remember Tina from renditions of smash hits like Zac Efron’s “Bet On It“, or from when she took down all her videos, or for when she returned and exposed herself (?!), [...]

New vid scams itself to #1 YouTube Most Viewed of All-Time?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Fan-made music video Alcohol-vs-Hot-Hot-Sex overtakes Evolution of Dance as YouTube’s #1 Most Viewed Video of All-Time…. but is it legit? Waxy investigates… If you look at the ratio of views-to-ratings, you’ll see the CSS video has a very unusual 21,487-to-1 ratio… the average ratio for every other video in the top 10 is a more [...]

Rickroll: Back With a Vengeance

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

What was oldmeme is new again… rickroll is back (don’t click that). We’ve noticed your Rickroll Shuts Up Baby video (76k views); we’ve noticed your dance remix MP3s. The RickrollDB blacklist has seen a surge in traffic & submissions over the last month, and they are largely being spotted on sites other than YouTube, which [...]

FAN MAIL

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

“I am filing official notice of copyright infringement by Internetfamo.us of content owned by Connected Ventures, LLC, parent of CollegeHumor.com and division of IAC/InterActiveCorp. (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; Stephanie Belsky, Marketing Coordinator, Connected Ventures, LLC. (ii) a description [...]

Internet Famous + Obama Girl on NBC

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

“Go forth America… and get your fame on.” Aired on WNBC on Feb. 19th, 2008 Check some behind the scenes photos Props to interviewed students ShannonEmigh.com and DanProvost.com p.s. we

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