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.

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. The 8 Easy Steps to Julia Allison Fame
4. Rex on MySpace
5. The Internet Underclass of Microcelebrities Gather at ROFLCon
6. If Cory Kennedy Is a Cewebrity, Let Me Never Be a Cewebrity
7. Fimoculous.com: Rex’s Blog

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CULTURE BUZZ – 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.

The Best Links:

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

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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.

The Best Links:

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

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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?

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

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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.

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

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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.

The Best Links:

1. ROFLCon: The Official Site
2. Anil Dash Is Going (And Thinks You Should, Too)
3. Jason Scott Will Be Delivering a Speech Titled “Before The LOL”
4. CNN Discovers Internet Famous At ROFLcon
5. At ROFLcon, “The Internet Will Come Alive”
6. LIVE At ROFLcon: Leslie Hall!
7. LIVE At ROFLcon: Tron Guy!
8. ROFLCon, A Gathing of Popluar Internet Memes | Laughing Squid
9. LIVE At ROFLcon: XKCD!
10. LIVE At ROFLcon: LOLcats!
11. LIVE At ROFLcon: Dinosaur Comics!
12. Gearing Up for a Weekend of Nerddom
13. David Weinberger’s Keynote Address At ROFLcon
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

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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.

The Best Links:

1. The Top 10 Best 1980s Cable Access Moments Ever
2. The Low-Rent Appeal of “Stairway to Stardom”
3. Producer Michelle Sharpe Has Amassed the Ultimate “Stairway” Collection
4. American Idol’s Ugly Siblings
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. Precious Taft: Melodramatic Actress Or New Benjamin Moore Primer?
9. Former ‘Stairway to Stardom’ Starlet Dancer Photographed at Found Footage Festival
10. What Better Way to Start a Blog Than With “Hairdresser”?

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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.

The Best Links:

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?

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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!

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

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