This one has scorched its way to the top of the YouTube charts, the latest greatest Swedish Game Show - Make me puke!
Reminiscent of scenes from "The Exorcist" this Swedish lass gets some good distance on the Technicolor yawn. (more...)
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Well here's some sloppy reporting from the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), with the SMH website reporting that Meg White, "drummer" of the White Stripes, was the 'star' of the latest celebrity sex video doing the rounds.
As of writing this, the SMH "Meg White sex video claim" story is the second most viewed story on the SMH website. The story was first published on the SMH site at 12.30pm on the 26 September. The article signs off with:
"Representatives for the band are yet to confirm or deny the video is genuine."
I have to say, it's an attention grabbing story, I guess the only problem is that it's not all that accurate.
What's wrong with the story you ask? Well, anyone with access to Google, which I'm assuming is readily accessible by the people at SMH headquarters, can tell you within about 30 seconds that the "sex video" is a hoax. In fact, it took me all of 30 seconds to find a statement from The White Stripes publicist Chloe Walsh:
"Some people have a very twisted sense of humor and this prank is in particularly bad taste. The tape circulating on the internet as featuring Meg White is fake. It’s definitely not Meg."
source: http://www.transworldnews.com/
9/24/2007 6:47 PM GMT (FINDITT)
You can also find similar sentiments on the PitchFork Media website, and countless others if you can be bothered surfing around for more than 30 seconds!
Now did you pick up on the date that The White Stripes publicist released the statement? Yahuh, the 24 September 2007. Now even when you take into account the timezone difference, SMH went ahead and published their story stating that "Representatives for the band are yet to confirm or deny the video is genuine" almost two days after the publicist came out and said that the video didn't feature Meg White. So yes, very sloppy effort SMH!
Actually, if anyone from SMH reads this, here is the story behind the now infamous not actually Meg White sex tape. It all started with a guy (‘Itsmecraig’) who was a frequent visitor to the Hipinion internet forum. This guy posted a video at that forum, with the post title "MEG WHITE SEX TAPE" (warning: not everything on that page is 'work safe'). So this happens on the 17 September. For the next day or two a few of the frequent forum visitors posted the obvious jokes that you might come to make (eg. "that can't be Meg White, that girl can keep rhythm").
It wasn't long before the thread was "wiki'd" and not long after the sex tape story was picked up as 'fact' by a number of outlets. Things obviously snowballed from there.
Then on the 24 September, "Itsmecraig" checked back in on his one week old thread:
oh sh!t dudes,
i found this video through random wank mining efforts and put it up here cause i figured you guys would have a laugh. it had nothing to do with meg white when i found it.
So there you go, a random guy, posts a random porn video, labels it as a celebrity, and it gets picked up and run worldwide as news. It's both funny and sad that news outlets didn't bother to check if the story was based on fact at all! So the Sydney Morning Herald fail on two counts. They published old 'news' that had already been proven false. Sometimes the quality of Australian print media is laughable, I guess you could file the Meg White "sex tape" as exhibit A.
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Is it just me, or is AuctionAds on the downward spiral at the moment? Earlier this month AuctionAds went out on the front foot, hailing the changes to their system as good news for publishers. There were the higher affiliate rates (which are always welcome) as well as the new Web 2.0 spring clean, which saw the introduction of a new ad format, designed to increase click through. That was roughly a month ago.
September has seen my worst month with AuctionAds since I signed onto the program. Nearly 25,000 impressions and only 11 clicks! Those are statistics of BlogRush proportions!
What has gone wrong? At one stage AuctionAds looked like a viable alternative to Adsense, particularly on my music blog.
I've also seen problems whereby no AuctionAds were being served at all, now that would explain the craptacular click through rate!
Has anyone else out there experienced a similar slump? Hopefully things pick up again soon... hopefully...
"Botox for headaches"? Now I've heard freakin everything. Until I saw this I didn't even know there was a place called the New York Headache Center, let alone that plugging yourself full of Botox could help relieve headaches. I guess one of the things I find a little concerning about the whole thing is this quote from their website:
"It is not clear how Botox relieves migraine headaches."
Now if you're not sure about why something works, I'm not sure that it is something you necessarily want to be playing around with, particularly when it comes to your body.
Let's not forget, Botox can go wrong? Take this exhibit as an example.
Next time your thinking about plugging your face full of Botox, maybe you should recall the image to your right here, and ask yourself, is it really a good idea?
Am I alone in thinking that BlogRush is a giant stuffed turkey? As of writing this I have past the 10,000 impressions mark, and received a grand total of 2 clicks. From what I've picked up from various forums, my experience with BlogRush is not unique.
I've also noticed a high proportion of hastily slapped together, spam riddled, made for adsense, style blogspot blogs turning up in the widget displayed on this site. How could those sorts of sites get displayed so frequently?
Well, as it turns out, there is a simple way to exploit BlogRush to boost your impression count, and as a result, have your headlines displayed more frequently. It's all done with a bit of php scripting (apparently this one resolves any IP + UserAgent issues?), but I think it's better explained if you it from the source here, BlogRush exploit.
No doubt the people behind BlogRush will be trying to close that loophole pretty quickly, although I'd imagine that even if they do, other loopholes will more than likely be discovered.
Bottom line, would I recommend BlogRush?
Nope. Unless things improve with the way the system runs I wouldn't recommend BlogRush to my friends. It's delivering no where near enough traffic to be worth the side bar space. That being said, if you really must join BlogRush, to feel the disappointment for yourself, feel free to use my affiliate link, you never know, it might bring me in that one extra visitor for the month!
I'm a massive Pearl Jam fan, so I picked up on this one when I checked in on there site just recently. The band have been performing on the Lollapalooza festival, with one of their recent shows being webcast, portions of their performance never made it to air.
After concluding our Sunday night show at Lollapalooza, fans informed us that portions of that performance were missing and may have been censored by AT&T during the "Blue Room" Live Lollapalooza Webcast.
When asked about the missing performance, AT&T informed Lollapalooza that portions of the show were in fact missing from the webcast, and that their content monitor had made a mistake in cutting them.
During the performance of "Daughter" the following lyrics were sung to the tune of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" but were cut from the webcast:
- "George Bush, leave this world alone." (the second time it was sung); and
- "George Bush find yourself another home."
[source: http://www.pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#195]
You can check out the 'edited' version and the 'unedited' version below to get an idea of what was missing.
The content monitor had made a mistake? Wow! I wonder what else is being cut, edited and repackaged for us to swallow? AT&T have opened a real can of worms here, and this censorship story will be an interesting one to following going ahead.