So now, let's get on with things, shall we? The Semi-Triumphant Return of Top Ten!

[featherynscale]

That's right. It's content-free Friday, and today I'm celebrating the TOTAL FUCKING DEATH OF JOURNALISM AND RATIONAL NEWS REPORTING, the COMPLETE AND UTTER SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE OF THE INFORMATION AGE that is Yahoo!Buzz. If you haven't heard of this, and in my heart of hearts, I hope you haven't, Yahoo!Buzz "features the most popular stories right now, determined by people around the Web. A story's Buzz Score is based on your votes, searches, emails, and more. Stories with the highest Buzz Score may be displayed on the Yahoo! homepage." So basically, they aggregate the most "buzzworthy" stories from the news, and those are what you see when you hit the portal homepage. Brilliant. Why didn't we think of this before? What are you going to see there? Well, I can tell you one thing, it's probably not going to be in-depth analysis of the complicated morass of American foreign policy or the latest developments in high-energy physics. Oh no. There's celebrities out there to report on!

Anyway. Rant over. So, here's the list. Hourly, Yahoo!Buzz publishes a list of top news-related searches, and that data feeds into their process. The list I'm looking for is the top ten news-related searches for today, 2 p.m. CDT. Could you go to the site and just get the list? Sure. But what fun would that be? Here we go:

TOP TEN YAHOO!BUZZ SEARCHES, 4/4/08, 2PM CDT.
1. Jamie Lynn Spears (turned 17)(triadruid, 1 point)
2. Pregnant Man (is pregnant) (lexpendragon, 1 point)
3. New Kids on the Block (touring again) (auraseer, 1 point)
4. Naomi Campbell (spit on somebody) (next_bold_move, 2 points)
5. American Idol (I don't know why it's in the news, it just is.) (lulumai, 2 points)
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8. Barack Obama (must be some guy on some tv show, doesn't his name sound familiar somehow?) (lulumai, 2 points)
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EDIT: Rules are in this post.

Comments

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Jamie Lynn Spears turned 17 (Johnny Dare had an awful remake of Winger for this..)
Snowstorm pounds region of US (I can't remember which w/o looking at a news site)
World's Tallest Dog.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Snowstorms are passé. Tall dogs (http://gibsondog.com/index.php), only interesting to a certain subsection of the population. But Jamie Lynn Spears, whose only claim to fame as far as I can tell is being pregnant and related to somebody famous is 17, stop the fucking presses, that is our top story. One point to you, and one more reason not to get out of bed in the morning for me.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Ethanol?
Steroid use in baseball?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Silly. Ethanol is relevant to the future of our energy industry, and may affect foreign policy positions. BOOOOO-RING. And steroid is... hard to spell. Neither of those make the list.