TECH BUZZ: Current.tv features a mini-doc on Jamie Wilkinson 's Internet Famous class at the Parson's School of Design — which encourages students to battle for the “A” by becoming “famous” on the web by any means possible.

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The Best Links:

1. Googling for Your Grade - TIME
2. Internet Famous Class
3. Jamie Wilkinson: Internet Scientist, NYC

TV BUZZ: It's official: MTV is giving the fratty geeks at College Humor their own TV show, to debut on February 8, 2009. The show will focus on the College Humor office, meaning it will basically be a string of their “Hardly Working” shorts with lush, Hills -like cinematography. Maybe Whitney Port will make a cross-promotional cameo!

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The Best Links:

1. MTV’s 2009 line-up: introducing the CollegeHumor show!
2. College Humor show in the NYT (they are legit now)
3. Extended trailer
4. Whoa, We Got a TV Show
5. CollegeHumor Staff Brings their Kegerator to MTV Primetime
6. the Lip Dub heard round the world
7. Jake and Amir - Featured on BuzzFeed

TECH BUZZ: Because we’re fascinated with the uniquely amateurish nature of viral videos, we keep treating them like movies. The web show “Internet Superstar” is the latest to the game, joining Current TV’s underrated Viral Video Film School and the comedy series Viralcom, about a viral video production house.

The Best Links:

1. Viral Video Film School
2. Viral Video Film School: After Effects
3. Viral Video Film School: White Guys Dunking
4. ViralCom
5. Viral Video School

CULTURE BUZZ: Baby’s First Internet is a nursery rhyme that explains all the ridiculousness of the web. With simple wisdom like, “Do not stop to think or edit: You must be the first who said it,” writer Kevin Fanning and illustrator Kean Soo manage to satirize all the best elements of the innerwebs. They even called out the bacon obsession we’ve documented so meticulously. “In order to increase renown, add ‘bacon’ to most any noun.”

The Best Links:

1. Baby’s First Internet
2. Baby’s First Internet a Cautionary Tale
3. ‘Baby’s First Internet’: Just Add Bacon

If Mariah Carey’s sexy jam was meant to be sung into a webcam by anyone, it was definitely this extremely young, completely unsupervised little kid. Well, now we know what they’re singing around the campfire at Camp Mariah .

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The Best Links:

1. I Believe The Children Are Our Future
2. Please Don’t Touch This Kid’s Body
3. “Touch My Body” [The Grown Up Version]
4. Mariah Carey’s Green Screen Remix - Featured Video on BuzzFeed
5. First A Child, Now A Dead Guy? Why Do All the Wrong People Sing This Song??

TECH BUZZ: Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous gives us the 8 easy steps to becoming a small-scale Internet celebrity in the new issue of New York . It’s funny. Unless you only hang out with other bloggers, you come to realize that most people really have no idea who any of these people are.

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The Best Links:

1. The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity
2. Rex Blogs about the Internet Media Pieces He’s Writing for “New York”
3. Fimoculous.com: Rex’s Blog
4. The 8 Easy Steps to Julia Allison Fame
5. Rex on MySpace
6. The Internet Underclass of Microcelebrities Gather at ROFLCon
7. If Cory Kennedy Is a Cewebrity, Let Me Never Be a Cewebrity

A video of a guy getting a Tay Zonday tattoo. Pointless tattoos like this make me wonder if there have been any breakthroughs in tattoo removal technology lately.

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The Best Links:

1. Amazon.com: No Regrets: The Best, Worst, & Most #$%*ing Ridiculous Tattoos Ever
2. Tay Zonday - Featured on BuzzFeed
3. Tay Zonday Covers Weezer, With Weezer - Featured Video on BuzzFeed

CULTURE BUZZ: A girl on YouTube who makes fetish videos that consist of her wearing high heels and trying to escape giant gobs of sticky gum. For those who feel that saving the helpless teenage goth from a bathtub filled with pre-chewed gum is a valid fantasy.

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The Best Links:

1. Sticky Sweetie in Bathtub with Gum
2. Porn? Cast Your Vote
3. YouTube - stickysweetie’s Channel
4. The Latest Internet Fetish Sensation
5. MySpace.com - Sticky Sweetie

TECH BUZZ: A guy films his girlfriend playing WiiFit in her underwear with his cameraphone and makes her into an inadvertent YouTube celeb. She’s like the Allison Stokke of Wii Hula Hooping.

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The Best Links:

1. Bernat on MTV’s TRL
2. YouTube - Watch the Video
3. Wii Fit girl appearing on TRL
4. Lauren Bernat the Librarian, Not the Wii Fit Girl
5. Different Lauren Bernat Feels Her Life Has Been Ruined
6. Lauren Bernat Copied By Playboy Model (VIDEO)
7. “Congrats! You Just Made Your Girlfriend Single!!!”
8. Gaming Site Salutes Lauren’s Boyfriend
9. Girl in ‘Wii Fit’ YouTube Clip Attracts TWO MILLION Admirers
10. This Is Why Every Guy Needs to Buy His Girlfriend a Wii
11. Attention Stalkers: She’s From Miami
12. Lauren Bernat on Facebook
13. A Couple of Photos
14. Lauren Bernat Spoof (Why Every Girl Should Buy Their Boyfriend a Wii Fit)
15. Wii Fit Causes At Least £20 Million Of Damage to Living Rooms

TECH BUZZ: After a series of recent career stumbles, Amanda Congdon, the former Rocketboom hostess is back with an interactive variety show. See what happens when you get too big for your britches ? You come crawling back to the stinkin’ Internet. It’s not so bad around here after all, is it, Congdon?

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The Best Links:

1. Sometimesdaily [Beta]
2. Introducing Sometimesdaily, “An Off-beat, Interactive Variety Show Exploring Life’s Themes Through The Inquisitive Eyes Of Amanda Congdon” [We Don’t Really Get It, Either]
3. Amanda Congdon Makes Movies for Her Friends, But Do You Care?
4. Amanda’s Original Stomping Grounds
5. Sometimesdaily: “Bad Humor and Uncomfortable Banter?”
6. Amanda’s Dead Video Blog

TECH BUZZ: As “lifecaster” iJustine, this designer from Pittsburgh is a certified ce-web-rity. You may also know her from last year’s 300 page iPhone video . So…how long until she gets a book/movie/record deal? Start counting.

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The Best Links:

1. Stream Justine’s Life!
2. iJustine: Legally Blonde Blogger or Superstar Pin-Up Girl?
3. “Wired” Hearts iJustine
4. iJustine Makes Funnies On YouTube
5. iJustine and the 300 Page iPhone Bill
6. Girl’s Got a Fan Site!
7. Naturally, She’s Got a Lengthy Wikipedia Page
8. She’s Officially a Web Celebrity (She Made a List!)
9. iJustine: The Phenomeon Explained (Or “Now What Is This ‘Webcam’ Business?”)
10. iJustine: Totes Softcore College Hottie Material (Mildly NSFW)
11. iJustine on MySpace

TECH BUZZ: The first official convention celebrating Internet memes will take place at Harvard University, where hundreds of web nerds will actually hear each other LOL. Buzzfeed won’t be in attendance, but we can only hope there’s a party DJ on hand to awkwardly beckon Tron Guy to the dance floor.

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The Best Links:

1. ROFLCon: The Official Site
2. CNN Discovers Internet Famous At ROFLcon
3. Anil Dash Is Going (And Thinks You Should, Too)
4. Jason Scott Will Be Delivering a Speech Titled “Before The LOL”
5. David Weinberger’s Keynote Address At ROFLcon
6. At ROFLcon, “The Internet Will Come Alive”
7. LIVE At ROFLcon: Leslie Hall!
8. LIVE At ROFLcon: Tron Guy!
9. ROFLCon, A Gathing of Popluar Internet Memes | Laughing Squid
10. LIVE At ROFLcon: XKCD!
11. LIVE At ROFLcon: LOLcats!
12. LIVE At ROFLcon: Dinosaur Comics!
13. Gearing Up for a Weekend of Nerddom
14. “ROFLCon is Like the Apocalypse, the Last Episode of M*A*S*H and the Stupidest Thing You Can Think of All Rolled Into One Amazing Package of Internet Memes”
15. The Official ROFLcon Shirt, Available - Where Else? - At ROFLcon

CULTURE BUZZ: We love the ’80s, if only for this timeless New York City cable access series that speaks volumes about that magical era when American culture was, apparently, devoid of all irony. If only we could find a time machine, we’d finally have a place to perform that jazz-tap interpretation of the theme from Beverly Hills Cop .

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The Best Links:

1. The Low-Rent Appeal of “Stairway to Stardom”
2. The Top 10 Best 1980s Cable Access Moments Ever
3. Producer Michelle Sharpe Has Amassed the Ultimate “Stairway” Collection
4. Precious Taft: Melodramatic Actress Or New Benjamin Moore Primer?
5. Don Costello: Mentally Ill Or Secret Genius?
6. Gloria Huddle: Singer/Actress/Near-Corpse
7. Cheryl Klein: This Comedienne’s Secret Weapon? Cocaine.
8. American Idol’s Ugly Siblings
9. Former ‘Stairway to Stardom’ Starlet Dancer Photographed at Found Footage Festival
10. What Better Way to Start a Blog Than With “Hairdresser”?

TECH BUZZ: The media giants announced their collaboration on a news aggregator website. Will the dynamic duo knock friend/foible Arianna Huffington off her throne as the Internet’s Master Commander? Only time will tell.

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1. Tina Brown And Barry Diller To Make News Aggregation Baby
2. The “Aging Blonde Trying To Get In On the Internet Opportunity Window” Widens
3. “Brown Promises the Site Will Have ‘No Ideological Stance.’ Read: ‘We’re Not Another Huffpo.’”
4. Tina Brown “Still Having Trouble Getting Her Email”
5. “There Will Always Be The Huffington Post, Brijit, Newser, and a Slew of Others Already Doing Whatever It is Diller Thinks Will Rescue His Company”
6. What About Diller’s Rumored Site for Black People?

MOVIE BUZZ: Lonelygirl15 is back with a new online horror series with a most ridiculous plotline: if your cell phone dies, your kidnapped friend dies along with it. It’s kind of like Speed meets the Ring meets an annoying MySpace ad. You can’t do that on television!

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The Best Links:

1. Another Online Serial: “If the cell phone dies, the friend dies”
2. Bloodcell - The Official Website
3. YouTube - Blood Cell Trailer
4. There’s Just Not Enough Content to Fill the Tech/Horror Genre

TV BUZZ: Remember those viral videos everyone was sending you six months ago? Now they’re being given awards. The talk about this being the new Oscars is a wee bit premature, but it’s nice to know that YouTube viewers aren’t just all about 2 Girls, 1 Cup reaction videos . Here are the winners in all 12 categories.

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The Best Links:

1. And the Award Goes To…
2. Broadcast Yourself, Win Fame and Glory
3. Eyewitness: Battle at Kruger, That Video of Water Buffalos vs. Lions vs. Crocodiles
4. Creative: The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond
5. Music: “Chocolate Rain” Original Song by Tay Zonday
6. Sports: balloon bowl
7. Adorable: Laughing Baby
8. Commentary: What the Buck, LonelyGirl15 is Dead!
9. Politics: Stop the Clash of Civilizations
10. Short Film: my name is lisa
11. Series: The Guild, Episode 1 “Wake-Up Call”
12. Instructional: How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube
13. Inspirational: Blind Painter
14. Comedy: Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise”

SPORTS BUZZ: The internet’s favorite pole vaulter is now at the University of California at Berkeley, and her first college photo has surfaced online. In a recent championship at Cal, she set a school and freshman record for indoor pole vaulting with a mark of 3.99m (which a teammate tied). Meanwhile, internet sites are comparing the new pic with the old one .

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The Best Links:

1. Just Because She’s in College Doesn’t Make the Internet Obsession With Her Any Less Creepy
2. Only Known Allison Stokke Cal Photo Found (Slightly NSFW)
3. She Also Set a New School Indoor Pole Vaulting Record
4. Allison Stokke’s Athlete Bio on Cal’s Site

TECH BUZZ: Hey, if cats can has their cheezburgers , why shouldn’t their canine brethren? Hanging with these unlucky pups might not necessarily prevent a heart attack , but they sure are cute.

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The Best Links:

1. The Official Site [Where Dogs Go To Lose]
2. Not This Dog.
3. Almost There, Rover!
4. Dog Sabotaged Tour de France?
5. Dogs Have No Dignity
6. Fail Dogs Is the Best Thing Ever (Today)

CULTURE BUZZ: One of the most popular profiles on YouTube features videos of a young girl named “magibon” or “MRirian” staring bashfully into a webcam. Her profile says she is 21-years old but various sources say she is actually only 14. Wonder if her parents know she is getting hundreds of thousands of views each week? She looks like she is either gonna break out into tears or peals of laughter.

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The Best Links:

1. Magibon’s Channel
2. Girls in Japan
3. Magibarf
4. Will the real magibon please stand up?
5. This Girl Creeps Me Out
6. Is She Faking Us out?
7. Unclear if latest YouTube craze has deep sociological meaning
8. Magibon is Playing the Lolita Game
9. Magibon’s Blog - With Pics! (It’s in Japanese)
10. Little Girl’s Bed in Background Probably Makes Magibon Extra Creepy/Popular
11. Young Girl plus Big Eyes plus No Words equals Web Traffic for Magibon
12. Japanese Girl With Pigtails = Classic Magibon
13. A Rare Video Where Magibon Actually Talks (Japanese)
14. Magibon’s MySpace (Why Is It Set to Private???)
15. MRirian on Encyclopedia Dramatica - She’s a “Pedobait Wapanese Camwhore”
16. Magi Videos
17. Magibon Fan Blog is in Japanese But It Does Not Really Matter Because She Rarely Talks
18. Magibon’s Evil Cuteness

TECH BUZZ: A class being taught at Parsons gives you a grade based on how “internet famous” you are. Posting some porn videos can now earn you an easy A! Oh, how we miss our days of art school.

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The Best Links:

1. How Does One Quantify Internet Fame? (With a Matrix of Some Sort, Apparently)
2. Internet Famous Class Gets An A+
3. Internet Popularity Contests Are Boring, But the Syllabus Actually Looks Pretty Interesting
4. What’s Your Internet Famous Rating? Take The Quiz
5. How to Become Famous on the Internet on wikiHow
6. Internet Famous Class, The Official Website (Get the Syllabus, Grade Matrix, etc)