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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...market-driven quality of the data set is a positive attribute, as it automatically gives us a proxy for measuring the kinds of events that are buzz-worthy on a larger scale ... images of social events are a useful data source to understand the fundamentals of how cultural industries drum up interest in their goods and services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geography of Buzz | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

Silly politicians. Don't they know the surest way to drum up interest in a pornographic movie on campus is to ban it? When a state senator threatened to strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates XXX: One University's Battle over Porn | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

HUTV has been making some changes this year. As if switching their name from Harvard Radcliffe Television to Harvard Undergraduate Television wasn’t revolutionary enough, HUTV has just launched its new Web site. To drum up excitement over the launch, members of HUTV tabled outside of the Science Center today and accosted passer-bys with the usual Science Center publicity mélange of flyers, candy, and blaring Britney tunes.  Details of their exploits, pre-horrific rainstorm, after the jump...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons | Title: HUTV Launches New (Sexy) Web Site | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...first single from PB&J’s fifth studio album, “Living Thing,” on his blog. The bumptious auteur gloated, “THEY SENT THE SONG TO ME FIRST!” and went on to wax lyrically, “DRUMS ARE CRAZY AND I LIKE THE KIDS ON THE HOOK.” Kanye is totally right. “Nothing to Worry About” is contagious and compelling—all in all, a better song than “Young Folks.” If only the rest...

Author: By Spencer Burke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Peter Bjorn & John | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...move hearts and minds as well as bodies.Boldly, the band places the two best songs on the album right at the start. Opener “Zero” is the perfect introduction to their new direction. The song begins with synths bubbling under the surface of a drum machine and O’s vocals, but they gradually emerge out to the forefront, eventually bursting into joyous techno. “Zero” is ideal both as a lead single and as an album opener, offering immediate thrills while continuously building to higher levels of excitement.Track...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yeah Yeah Yeahs | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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