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...Thanks to a ferocious Facebook campaign launched by Jon Morter, a 35-year-old part-time deejay and logistics expert from Essex, and his wife Tracy, the Californian punk group Rage Against the Machine's 1992 hit "Killing In The Name" was propelled to the top spot on download sales of roughly 500,000, beating out X Factor winner Joe McElderry's cover of Miley Cyrus's "The Climb" by 50,000 copies. It was the first time a group has topped the British charts based on download sales alone. (See the top 10 songs...
...This year, the Morters received some serious help: in addition to the half a million or so fans of their "Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1" page on Facebook, British comedian Peter Serafinowicz urged his 268,000-plus Twitter followers to join in. Even Sir Paul McCartney signaled his approval in an interview with Sky News, saying "it would be kind of funny if Rage Against the Machine got it [Number 1] because it would prove a point," although this didn't stop the former Beatle from appearing with McElderry on The X Factor finale earlier this month...
...People's Republic. Online censorship followed each in near lockstep. China blocked YouTube in March, Twitter in June and various proxy and virtual-private-network services - used to bypass domestic blocks and access to overseas websites - ahead of the National Day celebration. China's Web censors blocked Facebook in July after unrest broke out in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. Average users in that northwestern region have been without Internet access for the past five months, a rare blackout amid China's tendency for more targeted censorship methods. (See pictures of China's 60th birthday bash...
...guys who made sense again. But picking bin Laden would lead to a lot of hate mail and lose me a bunch of readers. Same with George W. Bush. China had a good decade, but there was no way I was going to search 1.3 billion people on Facebook to find out who was responsible. And picking generic "Chinese guy" seemed like one of those experiences that would feel good at the time but leave me unsatisfied an hour later...
...effort, the so-called Advent Conspiracy movement has exploded. Hundreds of churches on four continents and in at least 17 countries have signed up to participate. The Advent Conspiracy video has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, and the movement boasts nearly 45,000 fans on Facebook. Baseball superstar Albert Pujols is a supporter - he spoke at a church event in St. Louis, Mo., to endorse the effort. (See TIME's video "Bethlehem's Complicated Christmas...