Word: buzzings
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...stock prices. Prediction markets now let people bet on everything from sports scores to election results to the expected capture of al-Qaeda bigwig Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Some of the best of those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught in 2005). "There's a tremendous demand for prediction," says Justin Wolfers, a markets expert at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...
...Who’s got the illegal copy of the album?” called out Ninja, the diminutive rapper-singer-cheerleader of seven-person UK buzz band The Go! Team, during their set last Tuesday. As throngs of teens in the audience cheered and laughed, Ninja grinned right back, shouting “You’re all criminals, but we love you anyway!” The Go! Team’s sunny indie-pop-cum-hip-hop sound and on-stage dynamism got Boston’s Paradise Rock Club jumping like a joyous street party...
When asked on Tuesday night if, in light of the tepid student interest for Wyclef, research could have prevented such misappraisals of student buzz, McCambridge casually cited “some Crimson article” from 2004 as research that reported student’s top musical choice to be Wyclef. In actuality, the March 8, 2004 article, “Wyclef Voted Top Choice for Concert,” covered a UC-representative-only vote on an HCC-written list of potential performers for the spring 2004 concert. That McCambridge attempted to pass this off as a student referendum...
...Creek was snapped up by the wily Weinstein brothers for international release. Opening in the U.K. in September, it grossed $3 million, roughly three times its budget; late last month it was nominated for seven Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and Original Screenplay for Mclean. Fueling the buzz were reports of hardcore violence, including finger slashings and execution-style murders, which managed to earn the film a respectable four and a half skulls on the gore connoisseur website bloody-disgusting.com...
...that long ago, blogs were one of those annoying buzz words that you could safely get away with ignoring. The word blog--it works as both noun and verb--is short for Web log. It was coined in 1997 to describe a website where you could post daily scribblings, journal-style, about whatever you like--mostly critiquing and linking to other articles online that may have sparked your thinking. Unlike a big media outlet, bloggers focus their efforts on narrow topics, often rising to become de facto watchdogs and self-proclaimed experts. Blogs can be about anything: politics, sex, baseball...