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)
6.
7.
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

[lulumai.livejournal.com]

ok... now for my pop culture sort of guesses... and shoot me that i even know such things... but you have to balance 16 years of college with something...

- beyonce and what's his head (jay-z... just came to me) are possibily making it legal
- kathy lee has returned to the today show... i'm sure i know soemthign else useless that folks seem to care about... OH... i don't know anything about it... but did...(drum roll)
- american idol ((fillin the blank)) make the list?

[lulumai.livejournal.com]

WOOT... with 4 points I'm calling it quits.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

It's a horrible little game, isn't it? :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Beyonce doesn't make the cut, nor does Kathy Lee, but American Idol rings in at #5. Why? God only knows.

[lulumai.livejournal.com]

This is what a long commute does for me... useless radio gossip-mumbo-gumbo fills my brain. I can't listen to NPR, because i start yelling at the radio and at my fellow drivers. I'm pretty sure that makes me a danger to myself and others.

Now my brain keeps coming up with useless information... Heath Ledger's possible love child (and birthday). Something about some show called the Hills. ((just threw up in my mouth))... oprah was doing a show on the evils of puppy mills as a tribute to her dog that just died. Did you know one of her dogs died of choking on a plastic/rubber ball last year? What a horrible way to go.... will never be able to watch the "gimp" scenes in pulp fiction again...

ok... really walking away now.