Reluctant congratulations are due to the English language, which celebrated its 1,000,000th word yesterday. That word is “Web 2.0”. Here are a few reasons why I am upset about this.

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1. One Millionth Word
2. The Global Language Monitor
3. ‘Web 2.0’ Declared Millionth Word In The English Language
4. “Web 2.0” Becomes 1,000,000th English Word

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The former Reading Rainbow host (and star of Star Trek and Roots ) has taken back his Twitter after an impostor set up a fake account in his name, consequently turning Burton into somewhat of a new media junkie. See what happens when one proudly waves his nerd flag? Celebrity reborn, y'all.

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1. LeVar Is Passionate About Social Media
2. Take a Look, It’s in a Blog
3. Real Levar Burton Twitter Vs. Fake Levar Burton Twitter
4. LeVar Burton Talks Technology on Revision3
5. LeVar Burton Sings Reading Rainbow Theme Song [VIDEO]
6. LeVar’s Blog
7. Follow LeVar On Twitter
8. Mad Men (and LeVar Burton) on The Soup [VIDEO]
9. When Fake LeVar Closed Up Shop

Link: http://nymag.com/news/features/all-ne...

A profile of the NY Times' digital team. Is this the “only happy story in journalism?”

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1. Predicting the New York Times’ End - Featured on BuzzFeed

TechCrunch has uncovered a listing looking for Britney Spears' 2.0 Media Manager. The Pop Princess already has a Twitter , but it seems as though this is only the beginning of her (actually, this new manager's) online presence. Chris Crocker , this is the job for you.

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1. Britney Spears Is Hiring An Online Media Manager
2. “In the Future, Everyone Will Want to Be Britney Spears’ Social Media Manager.”

BUSINESS BUZZ: The CSM is closing its doors as a daily paper to become primarily a web publication (a weekly print edition will still be available for subscribers). Headline 2012: Christian Science Monitor shuts down website to become a Twitter feed only (subscribers can still get a weekly HTML digest).

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1. “Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy”
2. The Big Change Will Happen In April
3. From the Ashes of the Monitor, a Website

CBS launched a mobile photo upload app for the iPhone yesterday, and it quickly become a repository of NSFW images. The app lets users send photos like the one below directly to CBSeyemobile.com — they’ve since been trying to clean up the site, but a recent visit turned up photos of a dead horse and a cover shot of Rough Riders magazine.

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1. CBS Gets a Rude Lesson in Citizen Journalism

TECH BUZZ: A new site lets you turn readers of your site into copy editors. This happens pretty much all the time already (turst me!) because readers love nothing more than to point out your errors. But it’s nice to see they’re trying to get the word about GooseGrade out in synch with National Punctuation Day .

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1. GooseGrade, Launching Soon
2. GooseGrade on Twitter
3. Yes, Yes: To Err Is Human

TECH BUZZ: A new site that aggregates blog comments. This looks cool, but do we really need another tool that lets the blogosphere increase its self-analysis?

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1. BackType: Find, Follow and Share Comments
2. “At times, reader comments can be just as thought provoking, if not more so, than the original author’s blog post.”
3. “Now there’s a rich data set!”
4. TechCrunch Calls It “A Twitter For Comments”

TECH BUZZ: A command line for the internet. It’s only available for Firefox and only tech geeks will love it, but Ubiquity looks like a handy tool for doing things on the web.

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1. Introducing Ubiquity
2. The Big Omission is Pipes, a Way to Chain Commands Together
3. Non-Passionates
4. A Natural Language Web Command Line

TECH BUZZ: Finally, a social networking feature that mirrors the half-attention of real life. FriendFeed now lets you tell people you’re following them when, in fact, you’re ignoring their feed. Sort of like a cocktail party or family gathering, minus the face-to-face.

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1. Arrington Coins the Term “Fake Follow”
2. FriendFeed Beta
3. “Follow” People Without Actually Getting Their Updates
4. “The most important feature in the history of social networks”
5. “This is a little bit genius.”

TECH BUZZ: This Palo Alto start-up thinks you’d have an easier time sorting through your inbox if all correspondence was “paid for” in a system of currency — called “Serios” — that attaches different levels of priority to each e-mail. But, much like the eternal “if a tree falls in the forest” question, will your mom consider her political blooper forward as urgent as a direct memo from your boss? (Answer: Uh, yeah.)

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1. Software Lets Senders Assign Value to E-Mails : NPR
2. Seriosity To Fix Email Overload (Or Not)
3. E[mail]DD?

TECH BUZZ: A YouTube for paranormal activity. There’s a YouTube out there for God , porn , and now ghosts.

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1. The Official Website
2. Ghost Sightings - Featured on BuzzFeed
3. Elevator Ghost - Featured Video on BuzzFeed
4. Homemade Ouija Boards - Featured on BuzzFeed

TECH BUZZ: A fake Twitter competitor dreamed up as a hoax to rile the Twitter-esque Plurk . Posts purporting the company had actually purchased Plurk eventually caused the real founders to speak up.

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1. How the News Spread
2. Lots of Twitter “Thought Leaders” Were in On It Or Fooled by It
3. Mocking What Shouldn’t Exist With What Doesn’t
4. “It’s probably an elaborate inside joke.”
5. Follow Pheltup on Twitter
6. An Easy Joke to Play on Those With “Social Network Exclusion Anxiety”
7. The Flume: an Older Web 2.0 Hoax

TECH BUZZ: A new micro-blogging service, like Twitter with a timeline. The buzz seems to point to Plurk being a service aimed directly at teens. It’s got more visual appeal than Twitter, but are we getting tired of signing up for new services?

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1. Plurk — Twitter For Emos?
2. I Like Plurk Better Than Twitter, But So What
3. Me No Likey Plurk
4. Targeting the HSTGs (High School Teen Girls)
5. Tweets for Tweens

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the notorious couple from The Hills , have announced the launch of their own social networking website Speidiweb . Watch out, Mark Zuckerberg! Heidi and Spencer claim their site does everything Facebook and Myspace does, and more. The site’s been down for the past few hours (hax0rs??) so we can’t verify if this claim is actually true or not.

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1. Here’s the Official Site
2. Connect To Your Assholes, And Your Assholes’ Assholes
3. A Website Where They Post All of Their Uber-posed “Candid Shots”
4. Heidi and Spencer Reveal All
5. The Site Is Down - Does That Mean Their Relationship Is, Too?
6. 15 “Candid” Pics of Heidi and Spencer Vacationing in Mexico

TECH BUZZ: CollegeHumor was all set to take on Facebook staffers in a beer pong tournament until the social networking site pulled out at the last minute, blaming the forfeit on “legal and PR reasons.” Some might be surprised to learn that web developers would so enthusiastically partake in actual real life competition, but then again, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen Steve Jobs in a cage match.

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1. Gawker Says “Challenge!” To CollegeHumor
2. Beer Pong Tournament Isn’t Making Facebook Any Older (And It Probably Should)
3. Facebook Beer Pong Tourney Gets Cancelled, All Bets Are Off
4. Facebook has a prom, too?!
5. Facebook Backed Out of a Beer Pong Tournament Via Tumblr [Remove Friend, Please]
6. “But What Are We Going to Do With These Awesome Balls?”

Imagine if your life worked just like it does on the mammoth social network. Scary, right? Because, really, if someone ever actually claimed aloud to be looking for “random play,” you’d probably suggest they immediately get tested for “random STD’s.”

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TECH BUZZ: Initially having found success as a video blogger - his wine show attracts 80,000 viewers daily - the “social media sommelier” is out to conquer the world with TV appearances, a Hollywood agent, and a book already in sixth place on Amazon’s Cooking, Food & Wine section. In keeping his fans constantly abreast via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and countless other social networks, Vaynerchuk has developed as ubiquitous a presence online as Jamie Lee Curtis has in those commercials for the yogurt that makes you poop.

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1. Gary Vaynerchuk’s Daily Wine Video Blog
2. Jeff Jarvis, Essentially the King of the Internet, Claims Vaynerchuk Will Become “The Online Oprah”
3. The Definitive Guide to Gary Vaynerchuk
4. Buy “101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World”
5. Gary’s Blog!
6. Conan Today, Tomorrow the World!
7. The Pop17 Interview
8. Dude’s On Hulu, Too!
9. Kristen Wiig’s Dead-On Jamie Lee Curtis Impersonation
10. Hang Out With iJustine and Gary Vaynerchuk! Together! For Real!

TECH BUZZ: The mother and businesswoman from Missouri was indicted today by a federal grand jury in California for creating a fake profile on MySpace specifically to bully 13-year-old Megan Meier, who killed herself as a result. She could face up to 20 years in prison, where we assume that - at best - she’ll only have access to dial-up. Now that’s what we call karma.

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1. Lori Drew Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case
2. “Friend Game:” The Full Story As Excellently Reported In The New Yorker
3. Lori Drew: The Most Hated Person On The Internet
4. See You in Hell, Lori Drew (…Or On This Site for the Time Being)
5. Read the Indictment Against Lori Drew
6. Only in Missouri Could Lori Drew’s 19-year-old Co-Conspirator Look Older Than Her
7. The MySpace Memorial To Megan Meier, Lori Drew’s Victim
8. Although Lori Drew Admitted Her Hoax “Contributed” to Megan Meier’s Suicide, She Felt “Less Guilty” After Learning That Meier Had Once Attempted Suicide Before [Brain Power!]
9. Hitler…Stalin…Lori Drew.

BUSINESS BUZZ: An attempt to gauge what people really think about brands via the power of tagging. Users are presented with a wide variety of brand logos — from ABC and Absolut to YouTube and Zune — and asked to tag them with the first word that pops into their heads. You can then see the user-generated tag cloud and see what other people think about the same brands.

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1. Brand Tags, Main Page
2. Guess The Brand!
3. Bud Light’s Brand Tags - Cheap
4. Linux’s Brand Tags - Penguin
5. TechCrunch’s Brand Tags - ?
6. Playboy’s Brand Tags - Boobs
7. Godin: “The magical way each and every one of these brands compels you to think is fascinating.”