The Superbowl is mere day’s away and with it will come the inevitable barrage of so-so thirty second spots (the Puppy Bowl IV.) I’m from Boston so, sorry, but I’ll be rooting for the Red Sox of football. However, you Giants fans aren’t alone in your hopes for victory. You’ve even got a New Jersey Celebrity on your side:

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Tonight’s rerun of last season’s LOST finale aired with captions to bring viewers up to speed. While the tone was a bit snarky, they actually called out their fan community by name at one point. It was a nice way to acknowledge their hardcore fans and energize them for the new season, which begins tomorrow night.

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The 2008 Presidential candidates have turned to the increasingly popular online video social networking community, GodTube, to inform and secure votes from the Christian base.

Endorsed by Republican Presidential candidate and former Southern Baptist minister, Mike Huckabee, GodTube claims to draw over 250,000 registered Christian users and millions of unique visitors every month.

GodTube is not only drawing attention for its role in the upcoming Presidential election but from avid users of the site such as the latest Internet star Dan Smith, for his creation of the popular “Baby Got Book” video.

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According to E! Online, The New Kids on the Block are discussing a reunion. I know one fan here at 62 White Street who’s been pining for the return of Jordan, Danny, Jonathan, Donnie, and Johnny for over a decade!

Friend, renew your Teen Beat subscription, your prayers have been answered!

Technorati Tags: conversation, new kids on the block, office, social media, Viral Marketing

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Top 10 artists played by Campfire employees for the week of January 21-27, 2008.

A note on the play counts — Last.FM doesn’t count the number of times an artist is played, but the number of people who play that artist. This insures Charles doesn’t skew the list when he goes on a New Kids on the Block binge!

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Yesterday’s story about Mass Effect has hit the New York Times today, with pop Psychologist Cooper Lawrence apologizing for her ridiculous characterization of the game on Fox TV after gamers bombarded her book’s Amazon listing with 1-star reviews.

In an interview on Friday, Ms. Lawrence said that since the controversy over her remarks erupted she had watched someone play the game for about two and a half hours. “I recognize that I misspoke,” she said. “I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.
“Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,” she added. “But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.”

Fox, on the other hand, has yet to issue a correction.

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When Psychologist Cooper Lawrence admitted to never having played the X-Box game Mass Effect immediately after ranting against it’s “full digital nudity and sex” on Fox News, she probably didn’t expect gamers to bite back with a taste of her own medicine. Fans of the game immediately flocked to Amazon and slammed her book with 1-star ratings and negative tags. [via YesButNoButYes.com]

UPDATE: Amazon has removed over 400 customer reviews as well as all the customer tags, but enough negative reviews remain to keep the book’s score at 2 stars.

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Let’s follow the journey of how one blogger’s MySpace rant spread across the net, led to an official comment from Fox Interactive Media, and has now become the subject of meta-discussions about what it all means to the blogosphere in just four short days.

January 20th, 2008, 4:15 PM - Blogger Simon Owens posts a rant against MySpace spam and declares January 30, 2008 “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day .

January 21, 2008, 10:54 PM - Popular social networking news site Mashable.com picks up the story .

January 22. 2008 - The Mashable story is submitted to Digg.com and goes to the front page a day later. As of this post, it has 5258 diggs.

January 22, 2008, 12:13 PM - Without a hint of irony, a Facebook group devoted to International Delete Your MySpace Account Day Group is started.

January 22, 2008 - The International Delete Your MySpace Account Day meme lights up the blogosphere, with Technorati recording 75 blog reactions and Google tracking 5,290 hits .

January 23. 2008 - In a story about MySpace’s deal to host clips of BBC content on MySpace Video, Rebekah Horne, vice president of Fox Interactive Media and MySpace in Australia and New Zealand is asked to comment on the meme:

One blogger has declared January 30th “International Delete Your MySpace Account Day”.

But MySpace doubts that this will have a great impact on their network.

“This Delete-Your-MySpace day is just about being controversial,” Ms Horne said.

“MySpace is still the biggest social networking site in the world.”

January 23, 2008, 11:39 PM - Simon blogs about the reaction and notes the story has also been picked up by MSNBC, which fuels more bloggers to post the story.

January 24, 2008, 10:06 PM - Mashable.com uses the uproar to define what is becoming a formula for getting attention online :

1) Pick a popular target

2) Find reasons to nitpick something, even if they all have easy fixes

3) Say something outlandish about how it should go away

4) Reap the backlinks and media attention of “outraged” members of the blogosphere

5) Hit mainstream media as they always get amused when we dance like trained monkeys for them

We still have five more days to go, and Owens claims a wire service recently interviewed him so this story is still unfolding, and how far it goes remains to be seen.

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I know it’s been out there for about a year now but how many of you have actually spent some time with VICE’s VBS.tv? As VBS themselves so eloquently put it, the mission of the online network is to save viewers “eyes from the blinding pain of television.” Sure, the statement is exactly what you would expect from a brand that was founded on elitism and smarmy criticism but the more I’ve watched their programming over the past year, the more I agree with them.

I’ll admit that there hasn’t been a ton on television over the past few years to grab my attention. Six Feet Under, Dexter, Scrubs reruns, The Daily Show/Colbert Report and the occasional NYC TV, PBS or Discovery Channel offering are all I can really say I’ve watched with any regularity. Last week, I sat down in front of the TV without any direction and started flipping around. There wasn’t a damn thing that I could bring myself to keep on for even long enough to eat dinner. It was sad. Very sad. (more…)

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Top 10 artists played by Campfire employees for the week of January 13-20, 2008:

A respectable list, but since this is the first week we’re tracking as a group I think it’s heavily weighted towards the hardcore music lovers in the company. Next week will likely show Jenn’s 80’s heavy playlist exerting influence, or worse, Rich will manage to push The Doors up to number 1, in which case we’ll all be stuck in a shame spiral.

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