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Measuring the MJ Aftershock; Franken Rising; Sanford Falling
Top Stories for the Week of June 29- July 3, 2009
There are plenty of ways to measure the impact of Michael Jackson. The extreme strain that news of his death put on the Internet is just the latest. "Web Collapses Under the Weight of Michael Jackson's Death," TechCrunch reported. WhatGoogle mistook for a Denial of Service attack amid an epic spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was "a different kind of DoS: the Death of Superstar," says Changing Way. Google's chart of MJ-related queries on the day of his hospitalization and death looks like a tidal wave; the search service even snubbed some MJ news seekers, saying their frenzy resembled the persistence of malicious bot-a-matons. Yahoo News set an all-time record with 16.4 million visitors, beating the old record of 15.1 million set last election day, says SearchEngineLand. The Yahoo report, "Michael Jackson rushed to hospital,
" was the highest clicking story in Yahoo's history with "a whopping 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes" says Business Insider. Twitter was besieged. Nine of the 10 trending topics on Twitter were MJ-related. SEOMozBlog has a tick-tock-timeline of the online deluge, which blew up last Thursday when TMZ.com went live with the breaking news. An email and Twitter link to TMZ hit a high of almost 42 clicks a second. MeanwhileCover Awards has been gathering as many MJ magazine covers as it can find.
Jezebel assembled breaking news links of immediate reactions from celebrities and early speculation about drugs, money and more. HuffPorounds up photos of fans in mourning and tribute. Facebook reported a tripling of status updates. Wikipedia froze (uh, "temporarily protected") its Michael Jackson page amid an "edit-and-delete-the-edits scrum" by citizen-editors, says Digital Media. SearchEngineLand says "the final word about this extraordinary day belongs to AOL, whose AIM messaging service was knocked offline for 40 minutes Thursday." Now the grim aftermath unwinds. "The DEA and LAPD are looking into MJ's doctors and their drug prescription habits," reports Popsquire: "This is starting to look more and more like a criminal investigation." Initial reports that Jackson may have bequeathed the Beatles catalog to Paul McCartney are in doubt. Young, Black & Fabulous says Michael's will from 2002 has been officially filed, and he expressly said his cash should go to provide for his three children, for whom he designated his mother Katherine as guardian—with Diana Ross as a backup.
In other news—yes, there's other news—the recount in Minnesota is official, and Al Franken has become the first former Saturday Night Live writer to join the U.S. Senate. Alternate headline: 'Blogger trapped in a nightmare from which he can't wake up,' quips the skeptical Hot Air. Rush Limbaugh compared Franken's win to Ahmadinejad's recount victory in Iran—"right on cue," says Crooks and Liars. TPM culls videos of the reactions on Fox News (another past target of Franken comedy) including the suggestion that Franken is "barely sane if you read his books." And TNR pulls together videos of memorable moments from Franken's life. Now what? "Is the Al Franken Decade on the horizon?" asks Rabble.ca. (Don't remember that classic SNL bit? TV Eye has the text here.) Twitter users in Minnesota have varying views on Franken, Breaking Tweets shows. Tapped notes that the so-called Democratic supermajority of 60 votes Senate votes "has cracks... Though no one wants to say it, it is not clear that Sen. Ted Kennedy will ever vote again in the Senate, given his medical condition," and 91-year-old Robert Byrd "remains in delicate health." At least Franken's ascendency to the Senate "will provide the GOPers with their central talking point for the 2010 and 2012 Congressional races," says Daily Kos.
And finally, the Mark Sanford Saga continues too, as the infidel South Carolina Governor dissembles and disintegrates following his admission of an extramarital affair. Says Politics Daily: "It's hard to believe that anybody could have so quickly toppled John Edwards as the modern politician with the highest "ick" factor. But Sanford did it with a single quote: ‘This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,' Sanford told the AP. ‘A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.'" Balloon Juice observes:"In the last 48 hours Sanford has shot himself in the foot with the ‘I'm trying to fall back in love with my wife' remark, and then reloaded and shot his other foot with the ‘I met my soul mate' nonsense, and he appears to be out of feet and aiming at his head next." "Tick, tick, tick," says Michelle Malkin, "Someone needs to stage an intervention, stat." Despite everything, and the nation's reigning Luv Guv might have a book deal – "outlining his policy beliefs...a manifesto about fiscal conservatism"—says HuffPo.
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Measuring the MJ Aftershock; Franken Rising; Sanford Falling
Top Stories for the Week of June 29- July 3, 2009
There are plenty of ways to measure the impact of Michael Jackson. The extreme strain that news of his death put on the Internet is just the latest. "Web Collapses Under the Weight of Michael Jackson's Death," TechCrunch reported. WhatGoogle mistook for a Denial of Service attack amid an epic spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was "a different kind of DoS: the Death of Superstar," says Changing Way. Google's chart of MJ-related queries on the day of his hospitalization and death looks like a tidal wave; the search service even snubbed some MJ news seekers, saying their frenzy resembled the persistence of malicious bot-a-matons. Yahoo News set an all-time record with 16.4 million visitors, beating the old record of 15.1 million set last election day, says SearchEngineLand. The Yahoo report, "Michael Jackson rushed to hospital," was the highest clicking story in Yahoo's history with "a whopping 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes" says Business Insider. Twitter was besieged. Nine of the 10 trending topics on Twitter were MJ-related. SEOMozBlog has a tick-tock-timeline of the online deluge, which blew up last Thursday when TMZ.com went live with the breaking news. An email and Twitter link to TMZ hit a high of almost 42 clicks a second. MeanwhileCover Awards has been gathering as many MJ magazine covers as it can find.
Jezebel assembled breaking news links of immediate reactions from celebrities and early speculation about drugs, money and more. HuffPorounds up photos of fans in mourning and tribute. Facebook reported a tripling of status updates. Wikipedia froze (uh, "temporarily protected") its Michael Jackson page amid an "edit-and-delete-the-edits scrum" by citizen-editors, says Digital Media. SearchEngineLand says "the final word about this extraordinary day belongs to AOL, whose AIM messaging service was knocked offline for 40 minutes Thursday." Now the grim aftermath unwinds. "The DEA and LAPD are looking into MJ's doctors and their drug prescription habits," reports Popsquire: "This is starting to look more and more like a criminal investigation." Initial reports that Jackson may have bequeathed the Beatles catalog to Paul McCartney are in doubt. Young, Black & Fabulous says Michael's will from 2002 has been officially filed, and he expressly said his cash should go to provide for his three children, for whom he designated his mother Katherine as guardian—with Diana Ross as a backup.
In other news—yes, there's other news—the recount in Minnesota is official, and Al Franken has become the first former Saturday Night Live writer to join the U.S. Senate. Alternate headline: 'Blogger trapped in a nightmare from which he can't wake up,' quips the skeptical Hot Air. Rush Limbaugh compared Franken's win to Ahmadinejad's recount victory in Iran—"right on cue," says Crooks and Liars. TPM culls videos of the reactions on Fox News (another past target of Franken comedy) including the suggestion that Franken is "barely sane if you read his books." And TNR pulls together videos of memorable moments from Franken's life. Now what? "Is the Al Franken Decade on the horizon?" asks Rabble.ca. (Don't remember that classic SNL bit? TV Eye has the text here.) Twitter users in Minnesota have varying views on Franken, Breaking Tweets shows. Tapped notes that the so-called Democratic supermajority of 60 votes Senate votes "has cracks... Though no one wants to say it, it is not clear that Sen. Ted Kennedy will ever vote again in the Senate, given his medical condition," and 91-year-old Robert Byrd "remains in delicate health." At least Franken's ascendency to the Senate "will provide the GOPers with their central talking point for the 2010 and 2012 Congressional races," says Daily Kos.
And finally, the Mark Sanford Saga continues too, as the infidel South Carolina Governor dissembles and disintegrates following his admission of an extramarital affair. Says Politics Daily: "It's hard to believe that anybody could have so quickly toppled John Edwards as the modern politician with the highest "ick" factor. But Sanford did it with a single quote: ‘This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,' Sanford told the AP. ‘A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.'" Balloon Juice observes:"In the last 48 hours Sanford has shot himself in the foot with the ‘I'm trying to fall back in love with my wife' remark, and then reloaded and shot his other foot with the ‘I met my soul mate' nonsense, and he appears to be out of feet and aiming at his head next." "Tick, tick, tick," says Michelle Malkin, "Someone needs to stage an intervention, stat." Despite everything, and the nation's reigning Luv Guv might have a book deal – "outlining his policy beliefs...a manifesto about fiscal conservatism"—says HuffPo.
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