BBC launched a social media music chart: Sound Index.
‘Every six hours, Sound Index crawls Bebo, MySpace, Last.fm, iTunes, Google and YouTube to track which artists people are talking about, listening to, watching, and downloading. The results are compiled into a top 1,000 list presented on the site with a nifty CoverFlow-style animation. The index is currently analyzing over 23 million comments, posts, plays and views’ (@ReadWriteWeb)
Britney Spears is currently at the top of the ‘Artists’ section, while Leona Lewis’ ‘Bleeding Love’ is number one in the ‘Tracks’. Can’t say I’m very surprised. But it’s weird, no matter how many people slander Britney on her personal life, her music’s still popular. I failed to see the fascination of her when I was younger, and I still do now. Maybe her music is still good enough for some people regardless of what else she gets up to.
And I think it’s safe to say, I’m more or less out of touch out of all the ‘most popular music’ that’s being released. I’ve hardly heard of any of those artists let alone songs. Nice to see Sara Bareilles there though. She’s the one who sang ‘Gravity’ for the movie ‘Loving Annabelle’.
StumbleUpon’s got 5 million users and I’m one of ‘em. I’ve been using StumbleUpon for quite a while now. It’s a nice little way to find random sites when you’re not looking for anything in particular. With that, and Diigo, I’m all good to go to surf the web. Not literally though. I’ve never tried surfing. Maybe I should say skate the web. Either way, I’d still probably end up on the floor.
If you’re like me and have more then two e-mail accounts then you should seriously consider getting Windows Live Mail if you haven’t already. It supports Hotmail and Gmail (and Yahoo if you have a schmancy premium accounts). If you’re a bit iffy about it, don’t be. Give it a go. It saves a hell of a lot of time then having to constantly sign in and out of different accounts. There’s also always the alternative in Mozilla Thunderbird. But for some reason I never warmed to it – user’s preference as always.
WarGames is coming out with a remake. You can watch the trailer here. Wired led me to believe that it was a sequel. Which I think I could of been happy about. But no. It’s a remake. And by the looks of the trailer, a bad remake. Why oh why do they have to do this to movies like that. It’s fine just the way it is. Next thing you know they’ll be wanting to remake Hackers as well. Naa, they wouldn’t. Would they? Uh oh.
So I’m debating whether or not to go out.
Go. Don’t go.
Which is the equivalent to: Work. Don’t work.
I can’t decide whether or not I have revison/homework to do or not. Whether I can leave it till last minute or not. Knowing me, I probably can. But also knowing me, I’ll get back home and realise that I have some essays and a billion practice papers to do. Because that’s what teachers like doing you see. Instead of teaching, they like to give their students practice papers. They’re tired to by the end of the year. So that’s what they do. And then to make it even easier on them, they give you the mark scheme afterwards so you can mark it yourself, or they ‘go through it in class’ so they don’t have to mark the billion practice papers.
Meh. I’ll probably end up going. Could do with some Krispy Kremes, what with all the ‘hard work’ I’m doing.
You’re might be wondering what a hydralectacappala nynexghidralamapalc tusitricalafalfa is. It’s an animal found along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which only appears during the week of 30th February. It eats crocodiles and sometimes flies. It doesn’t like chips with ketchup. Sometimes it has wings, depending on the temperature. If you look at it from a certain angle, the patterns on its side look like Elvis Presley’s face. From time to time it jumps out of the water in search of a Range Rover, but nobody knows why. And it has very sharp teeth.
