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 100 Defining 
 Moments 
 of the '00s 

The iPod, Guitar Hero, Twitter—and some serious moments, too

Oct 30, 09 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - From the tragic (World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina) to the seemingly trivial (Stephen Fry's first Tweet), the Telegraph lists the top 100 defining cultural moments of the decade so far:
  • April 2000: Metallica sues music-sharing service Napster.
  • October 2001: The iPod is released.
  • February
... More »

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Barack Obama • Hurricane Katrina • James Cameron • YouTube • Academy Awards • Al Gore • World Trade Center • iPod • September 11 • An Inconvenient Truth • Michael Moore • Michael Jackson • Napster • Metallica • Guitar Hero • Sacha Baron Cohen • Dreams From My Father • George W. Bush • Twitter • 9/11 attacks • Slumdog Millionaire • Oscars • PlayStation 2 • Stephen Fry • tweet • Jay-ZTV • Avatar (film)

Teens Busted for Rapping Fast-Food Order

Utah McDonald's doesn't appreciate YouTube-inspired stunt

Oct 30, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four Utah teens are in trouble with the law for attempting to place their McDonald's order in the form of a rap song. The four teens, rolled into the drive-through this week and, finding themselves the only customers, attempted to re-create a 2006 YouTube video by rapping their order. The... More »

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Internet • YouTube • McDonald's • police • Utah • prank • disorderly conduct

MORE VIDEO VIOLENCE

 Vigilante Video Divides Mexico 

Some say alleged teen thieves got what they deserved

Oct 27, 09 2:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A video of five teenage boys being beaten by vigilantes and forced to French-kiss each other has sparked a debate on crime and justice in Mexico. Officials and human rights organizations have reacted with outrage to the abuse of the alleged thieves, but many ordinary Mexicans fed up with soaring... More »

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YouTube • Mexico • thief • vigilante justice

TANGLED WEB DEPT.

Miss Jackass? New Site Is YouTube for Crazy Dares

MakeaDare.com aims to hook users up with professional opportunity

Oct 24, 09 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fearing that Jackass-style daredevil stunts are getting lost on YouTube, one entrepreneur has launched a site where the brave/stupid take on dares from others. Make A Dare users then vote, with “street cred” the winner’s reward. At least for now—Tory Osinoff tells True/Slant he hopes he can... More »

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entertainment • entrepreneurs • YouTube • Jackass • daredevil • Tory Osinoff

 U2 to Stream 
 Concert on YouTube 

Sunday's show will stream live, for free

Oct 20, 09 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - U2 will offer a video stream of a live concert for free on YouTube this Sunday. The stream of the sold-out show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California will be available in 16 countries, including the US, Brazil, Israel, and Australia. U2 has "wanted to do something like... More »

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music • YouTube • Bono • concert • streaming media • streaming content

 Taliban Starts 
 YouTube Channel 

But its most disturbing clip was taken down

Oct 19, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The jihad has come to YouTube: The Taliban has set up shop on the viral video site, posting two propaganda videos to its “Istqalmedia” channel, Fareed Zakaria noticed over the weekend. One, which you can see here, shows a variety of pastoral scenes set to Pashtun-language music. The other,... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • YouTube • viral video

GOP Pol
Ripped Over
'Redneck Rap' 

Anti-Obama video touts opossum, 'the other dark meat'

Oct 16, 09 6:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kansas lawmaker Bill Otto brushed off accusations of racism after his "Redneck Rap" video was pulled from YouTube yesterday. The Republican sported a hat describing opossum as "the other dark meat" in the video, in which he slams President Obama's policies and then repeats the hat's slogan, adding,... More »

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YouTube • Republican • Kansas • racism • rap video • President Obama

WATCH IT

 Obama's Sexy 
 Salsa Irks Michelle 

After salsa dancing at the Fiesta Latina, Barack seems to spark wife's ire

Oct 14, 09 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama may have gotten on his wife’s bad side last night after salsa dancing with Mexican pop singer Thalia at the White House’s Fiesta Latina. TMZ points to a YouTube video (watch it at left) showing Michelle appearing to give Barack the cold shoulder after he returns... More »

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Barack Obama • YouTube • Michelle Obama • White House • Obama dancing

YouTube Reaches 'Well Over' 1B Views Per Day

Google subsidiary takes the opportunity to gloat

Oct 9, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move ripped right from the McDonald’s playbook, YouTube’s logo today comes with the tag “1 billion views per day!” That’s right, YouTube now gets “well over a billion views a day,” according to the site's official blog. Sure, execs are... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • online videos • web traffic

VIRAL VIDEO

'Screw' Those Soviet Hockey Players: Kid

Pint-sized coach
recites Kurt Russell's speech from Miracle

Oct 6, 09 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - What’s more inspiring than watching Kurt Russell speak the words of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks to the 1980 men’s Olympic team before they played—and beat—the Russians in the film Miracle? Try the same words coming from a 5-year-old. Well, maybe it’s just cuter,... More »

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social networking • Internet • YouTube • film • Soviet Union • hockey • viral video • movies • Kurt Russell • Miracle on Ice • Herb Brooks • Miracle • 1980 Winter Olympics • Lake Placid

WATCH IT

 Only Footage 
 of Anne Frank 
 Hits YouTube 

Film of neighbor's wedding in 1941 was given to Holocaust victim's family in the 50s

Oct 2, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Anne Frank House has posted the only surviving video of the young diarist and Holocaust victim on YouTube. “The footage is very moving and very unique because these are the only moving images of Anne Frank,” a museum representative tells the Guardian. The film, of an... More »

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YouTube • Holocaust • museum • Netherlands • Amsterdam • World War II • Holland • Anne Frank • diary • footage • Otto Frank

Newark Mayor Bars Conan From NJ in Playful Feud

Booker fires back after O'Brien's Newark joke

Oct 1, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker have been lobbing insults back and forth—O’Brien on the Tonight Show, Booker via YouTube—for the past week. It started when Conan made a joke about Booker’s drive to improve Newark's health care—it "consists of a bus... More »

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YouTube • Conan O'Brien • Cory Booker • Tonight Show

VIral viDEO

 Watch 100 
 YouTube 
 Classics in 
 4 Minutes 

Thanks to a new mash-up, you can catch up on four years of pop culture in a jiffy

Oct 1, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Want to catch up on YouTube’s greatest hits but don’t have the time? No problem: Just watch a new 4-minute mash-up that brings 100 of the best (or worst, depending on your viewpoint) together. Clips include such classics as “Keyboard Cat” and “David After Dentist,”... More »

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YouTube • online videos • Obama Girl • viral video • videos • trend

 Jiggy Beyoncé  
 Baby Goes Viral 


Cory busts a move

Sep 25, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Oh baby, it's so hard not to move watching Beyoncé tear up the screen in her Single Ladies video—even if you are wearing a diaper. Baby Cory knows. With a couple of squats, a few leg jiggles and a wag of the head he's gone viral with his dance... More »

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YouTube • dance • music videos • Beyonce • viral video • Single Ladies

OPINION

'Paris Hilton' Palin Perfect
Politician for Internet Age

Resignation was genius move, writes Greg Beato

Sep 18, 09 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Politics is due for a shake-up of the kind the Internet gave to music and newspapers—and Sarah Palin looks like the only politician ready to deliver, Greg Beato writes in Reason. Palin's resignation makes her a true maverick, Beato writes. Just like Paris Hilton realized you don't need to... More »

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Internet • YouTube • Alaska • politics • resignation • governor • Sarah Palin

OPINION

 MLB Honchos 
 Drop Ball on 
 Vid Sensation 

Refusing to share video of little girl's ball toss makes league look petty

Sep 17, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was a great baseball moment when a stunned Phillies fan watched his 3-year-old daughter toss back a foul ball he had just caught. But Major League Baseball isn't playing ball with the video, Jennifer Van Grove writes at Mashable. MLB has made a copyright claim on the video, making... More »

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YouTube • MLB • Philadelphia Phillies • copyright • viral video • baseball • Citizens Bank Park

3-Year-Old Creates Viral
Buzz With Foul Ball Toss

Toss-back earns young girl offers to close for Phillies

Sep 16, 09 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - A happy Phillies fan made a sensational catch to snag a foul ball at last night’s game against the Nationals. Then he gave the ball to his 3-year-old daughter, and the result is turning into a YouTube sensation: She chucked it back over the railing. “When she first... More »

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YouTube • MLB • Philadelphia Phillies • children • Washington Nationals • viral video • baseball • Citizens Bank Park • foul ball

Cuban Activists Rally Around Drunken YouTube Ranter

Man thrown in prison for video plea for food

Sep 8, 09 9:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cuban activists have found an unlikely cause celebré in the case of Juan Carlos González Marcos, who was sent to prison last month for drunkenly interrupting a shoot for a video about reggaeton with a rant about hunger. González was drinking, as he often did, at his neighborhood... More »

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YouTube • human rights • hunger • free speech • Cuba

Tongue-Tied Groom, Tickled Bride Storm YouTube

Hysterical wedding video attracts tens of thousands of views in just 2 days

Sep 4, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - An exchange of marital vows that took a break for hysterical laughter has become a viral-video hit, the Daily Mail reports. First a nervous Andrew Engstrom fumbles with the ring. When the celebrant asks him to repeat “to be my lawfully wedded wife,” he says “waffle-y”—... More »

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YouTube • video • wedding • wife • laughing • weddings • Andrew Engstrom • Melissa Warren

OPINION

 2 Much Kittehs 
 on teh Interwebs;
 1-Day Ban Planned 

Can "9.9.09—A Day Without Cats on the Internet" possibly fly?

Sep 3, 09 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Let’s face it: Cats own the Internet. But it’s getting a little much, and that’s why the Urlesque blog is organizing “9.9.09—A Day Without Cats on the Internet.” The master plan calls for cats not to be mentioned, emailed, viewed, nor... More »

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pets • technology • social networking • Internet • YouTube • web surfing • LOLcats • moratorium • computers • cats

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