All you want to know about Britney

There's a Customer Born Every Minute, P.T. Barnum's Amazing 10 "Rings of Power" for Creating Fame, Fortune, and a Business Empire Today--Guaranteed!
The result was massive publicity and sold-out events. Don't think this is unusual. The media so badly want news that they will often ... It was pop star Britney Spears promoting the perfume Curious. A light bulb went on over my head.

Microeconomics
The Grammy Award-winning singer has signed with Elizabeth Arden to develop and market her own line of fragrance ... Arden's deal with Britney Spears, signed in March 2004, has yielded two top-five hits: Curious Britney Spears and ...

Gender, Race, and Class in Media, A Critical Reader
When Elizabeth Arden launched its new perfume, Britney Spears's Curious, its debut took place with almost no publicity. Yet within only four months, it had become the leading fragrance launch for 2004, generating sales of $36 million.

Porn generation, how social liberalism is corrupting our future
Britney Spears' new perfume, Curious, is marketed by selling her as a sex symbol . Commercials show Spears checking into a hotel, exchanging glances with a guy checking in to the adjoining room. The Dallas Morning News details what ...

Billboard
BRITNEY'S SOPHOMORE SCENT Prepare yourself for a Britney Spears media blitz surrounding the launch of her new perfume, Fantasy. It is the "follow-up" to the artist's mega-successful Curious scent, which has amassed $100 million in ...

Twitter and TV Go Hand in Hand

In an article posted on Problem Insider today, a disturbing excerpt caught my attention:

"Let's view Twitter as the having the pulse of everything we nurse about as a society," says Rick Lawrence, who leads IBM's Machine Learning Group at IBM Research at Yorktown Heights NY.

He's not alone in that assessment. The Library of Congress has pronounced that Twitter is so important, it is archiving every tweet. Considering that Twitter streams some 250 million tweets a day, that's a lot of Simper love.

This means every tweet that says "You suck" is now archived by The Library of Congress as if it is an important indicator of some tidy up of societal trend. Or, as Lawrence says, it's like documenting "the pulse of everything we care about in society."

Really? Everything we trouble about in society is reflected on Twitter? This is beyond an eye-roller. It is a 360-degree head spin, with eyes rolled back into the skull. It is an forefinger-finger-and-thumb-gun, pointed to the temple, and pulling the trigger. Yes, it's that bad.

Source: PC Magazine