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)
9.
10.

EDIT: Rules are in this post.

Comments

[auraseer.livejournal.com]

Since you mention signs of the apocalypse, I hear New Kids on the Block is getting back together.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Pregnant Man?

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

NFL draft
Whitney Houston/Bobby Brown

[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.

[next-bold-move.livejournal.com]

Naomi Campbell got arrested for spitting on someone, didn't she?

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Britney Spears. I have no idea what she might have done this time, but it'll be a cold day in hell when she's not in the Top Ten.

(either way, I win... either I get one in the Top Ten, or my faith in humanity is renewed just that little bit by the fact that she's not there)

[lulumai.livejournal.com]

k... i'm going to go slightly more historic/political... and say there is probably something about mlk (anniversary of his assasination) and maybe something about obama/clinton/mccain and the disaray that is our political system.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

NCAA Final Four?

[capriciouslass.livejournal.com]

There's got to be something with Britney Spears and Kevin Federline on there. There always is.

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone knows everything about MLK, right? And Yahoobuzz could probably care less about the political hoopla surrounding the Bejing Olympics... what about that girl... Hannah Montana? Or however it is spelt. Has she done anything lately?

[dramaticaddict.livejournal.com]

um, didnt brad pitt get married or something, thats probably there....

[leiandra.livejournal.com]

Dancing with the Stars

[dramaticaddict.livejournal.com]

did the whole political unrest in china/olympics protesting story make it, it was there a few days ago(i have to check my yahoo at least once every six months...)

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Well I heard while surfing through the radio stations this morning that Beyonce' and Jay-Z finally got hitched. Also, I'm pretty sure there *should* be buzz talk about the IRS's impending "tax rebate" thingie. Also heard in passing that Mariah Carey got another top ten hit; and if people have stopped talking about the W.W.F. I think we just hit a major culture shift. Also, movie sites are all abuzz about newly released photos of the new Bond movie (and zomg is the new Bond hotter than ever), so I would imagine it got on that list, too. And if people are buzzing about the pregnant man, I'm assuming they're also buzzing about him appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show, which the talker DJs were buzzing about this morning, as well.

Aaaand that's the buzz that's been infecting *my* brain today. Thanks for the chance to download it here.