Google Trends

Google trends is great.

This tool can be used to see what people are searching, where it is being searched and momentous articles that cause spikes in searching.

Imagine what this will do for various advertising or public relations firms.

This is a search of the "Cyrus Virus" herself. check out the results!

Google's Real-Time Search

This is pretty awesome.

Because Google is amazing at consuming everything on the planet, they are able to search for things on a live update.

For example, when I type in a hot topic like "Tiger Woods," I see tweets, articles, facebook updates and Yahoo! Answers streaming in. This is going to change how we receive information.

News is moving from daily to moment-ly.

Perez Hilton is no better than his Paris Counterpart

Perez Hilton is really annoying.

He has received many attacks, both verbal and physical, and is still trucking.

He deserves every second of it.

He is inconsiderate, uncaring and rude. Unfortunately, I feel that many may look at him as representing our generation. The rest of us human beings are going to have to be extra nice and curteous to make up for his transgressions.


Check out this video of a KTLA morning news anchor getting angry at him:

Saving Face-book

Facebook is a great way to connect with people. Now, more than ever, people are able to meet up with people that they haven't seen in years.

However, it is not a good place to update us on the status of your bed (See image to the right.)

Sometimes, people have an extra amount of self-disclosure on Facebook. This makes interpersonal communication very...odd.

Pre-Packaged Music

I hate pop music.

The biggest reason is that, honestly, it all sounds the same. For example, this mash-up of two Nickelback songs shows how unoriginal this band really is.



It must be very difficult for "artists" to come up with original material these days.

On the other hand, perhaps this just shows the level of taste in our culture. Here is another video showing songs that are very commonly liked. They are sung to the tune of the same four chords.

New name, Same quality

The former "Sci-Fi" channel is trying to shed its nerdy image by creating a new name. The "Syfy"channel may be TRYING to get rid of this, a name change is not going to do it. This image will remain with their poorly produced movies and shows that depict people fighting really bad CG dragons and world only a dungeon master could come up with in a game with his friends.

They just need to try a little harder.

Question of Love

I'm pretty sure the television industry has no idea what the word "Love" means. Their definition would be "winning a reality competition in order to be with someone until the next season starts."

Why people even turn to that smut for entertainment is beyond me. And television networks have the audacity to refer to their programs as "reality."

Furthermore, if we have these ridiculous shows, such as "For the Love of Ray-J" or "Rock of Love," it could warp our concept of what "love" really is. Of course no one is going to think of love as a contest that you can win on television. However, people may think of love as extremely superficial and trite.

Thanks again, television.