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Some Gleeks post their own live or lip-synched video renditions of the show's repertory on MySpace and YouTube: "Saw it on glee, and i had to rock out to it," posts MrJBVanilla, whose YouTube performance of Heart's "Alone" includes a lot of TV-worthy diva hand-flicks and head-flips. Fox - surprise - has encouraged the online tributes by touting Glee sheet music and sponsoring contests that reward the best amateur MySpace karaoke singers with prizes like a lesson from the Glee vocal coach...
Even veterans of the post-college singing subculture - which includes Microsoft's Baudboys, named after a modem speed, and NASA's Chromatics - say they notice a Glee factor. The show, they claim, is helping quash a cappella's rap as the province of dorks. For instance, when Vinyl Street, an a cappella group in Somerville, Mass., went out for karaoke on a recent weekend, members told a woman at the next table that they were there as a group - and found themselves a fangirl. "She was all excited," says co-founder Phil Dardeno, 29, a Boston University financial-aid planner...
...always changing. On Monday Google announced that it would show live updates from social-media feeds on its news-search results. And on Tuesday, in response to complaints from newspapers and other news-gathering sources, it announced the creation of Living Story Page, a collaboration with the Washington Post and the New York Times, which puts ongoing stories, like health care reform, under one URL, and does not subject them to the vicissitudes of the search engine - though you have to visit the Living Story Page to find them. "In general, our goal is to make it easy for people...
...favorite post? This one from the Mather Dining Hall Tuesday at 2:43 p.m.: "I saw you...wearing a cookie monster hat with your big glasses. you are the cutest guy [I] have ever seen...
Even more disconcerting to the Ivygate-obsessed, a Nov. 18 post was neither a snarky analysis of a professorial affair nor a dig at preppy Yale students, but rather a plea for more blog writers...