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Xzibit: ‘Planking’s origins are in the slave trade – it’s not funny’

Xzibit has launched an attack on 'planking' and implied that it has racist connotations. The ...

There Are Now 200 Million Tweets Being Sent Per Day

It's hard to imagine that when Twitter first launched in 2006 it'd become the monstrous cloud of ...

Fan Review: Linkin Park Project Revolution in Leipzig + M&G

Concert Review Linkin Park Project Revolution 

Festwiese, Leipzig + M&G on June 18, 2011

By LPfan1989

Arriving at the Venue At 11 am I made my way to Leipzig and the drive was so uneventful and relaxed that we arrived at the venue at 2.30pm already. My buddy and me, who was also my official assistant, because I'm sitting in a wheelchair, had a little break first, but then went to the entrance. First we went to the wrong one, which was closed (we weren't the only ones doing this), so we had to walk back again to the other entrance. After it started to rain so hard that we had to find shelter first, we asked the staff at the box office for information on the M&G and wheelchair space. They told me some totally wrong information, saying that the meeting place for the M&G was the box office, when we found out later that it was the bell tower. When we went through the entrance our stuff was examined by the staff there and they took two water bottles (from four) and my snap light sticks, and I had to open the mailing tube that contained my poster cause I could've hidden anything in there. The rest of the review, pictures, videos and live tweets after the click >>> ...

Feel Your Heart Beat: Eurovision Song Contest 2011 In Germany

This year's Eurosvision Song Contest will be hosted by Germany, because our Lena has won last year's contest in Oslo with her song "Satellite". In a bout of either idiocy or ingenuity she has decided to defend her title this year by participating again with the song "Taken by a stranger" wich was chosen via televoting by the German audience. I've decided to do some live tweeting during the Final, so if you wanna know what I think about the different performances, follow @adiek84 on Twitter or add Adie Klarpol to your Facebook friends, because my Tweets will be posted to my FB wall, too. Who should win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011? How do you like this year's Song Contest in germany? Share your opinion by commenting here! EDIT: You can vote for your favourite participant here: http://poll.fm/303uj
Here is some more information about the ESC: ...

2 Artists, 2 Coasts, Both in Jail for Graffiti

Left, LA II, right, Revok. (images via dnainfo.com & ballerstatus.com)

As LA’s MOCA tries to give graffiti and street art their moment in the Southern California sun, in New York LA II, aka Angel Ortiz, and in Los Angeles, Revok, aka Jason Williams, are in jail for doing the art they love. While LA II, who is best known as a collaborator of Keith Haring, has quietly languished at Riker’s Island prison, Revok’s arrest and subsequent sentencing has been accompanied by a vocal outcry from his comrades and fans, including Shepard Fairey, who issued a poster last week to raise money for his legal defense fund. The debate about graffiti and street art and its role in a democratic and free society is sure to rage on as the artists associated with the art form continue to make waves by openly challenging vandalism laws. The whole phenomenon is strangely reminiscent of the emergence of hip hop in the 1980s and 90s, when artists (and their handlers) often parlayed criminal charges into more publicity and fame for the artist. The largest question is do artists have — or should they have — a right to create art on public property or the property of others. The Twitterverse has been very vocal about its anger regarding Revok’s arrest. ...

MTV’s Musical March Madness Round 3: Linkin Park vs. Paramore

...or Clash of the Titans! Linkin Park, who won with over 87% against R.E.M now have to fight ...

Joe Hahn Dedicates Painting To Japan

Joe Hahn, who is not only Linkin Park's one and only DJ, but also a great visual artist, has ...

Linkin Park At Staples Centre, Los Angeles – A Review in Tweets

mike Two days ago, Linkin Park rocked their hometown Los Angeles - one of many dates of their North American Tour 2011. There have been a lot of good reviews, but what about all those people that went there and didn't write lengthy reviews on their blogs? One medium that captures single moments in the life of us "regular" people (and the "un-regular", too, sometimes) is Twitter. So here is the first (at least the first I know of) concert review in Tweets! Follow all those people, because they must be cool - they were at a Linkin Park show! http://twitter.com/#!/bigblueoctopus/status/41023137378344960 ...

TwitArt #3 Or What Artists Tweet

I know I've been neglecting the art here, so I thought I'd make another TwitArt post! Like always, if there's a link to more than one picture, I just post one here as a little taste. So make sure to click the links, if you want to see all the good stuff. Also, follow the artists! Here we go: http://twitter.com/#!/garybaseman/status/40113707388243968 ...

Beijing’s Control Of The Internet

Internetcafé in Beijing Shortly after christmas, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof opened an account on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblog service that, like Twitter, allows users to share short messages of up to 140 characters. Kristof began testing what topics would be censored. He found out quickly. One of his first messages was "Can we talk about Falun Gong?" — a reference to the spiritual movement banned by Beijing. Within an hour of his first post, Kristof's account was canceled. At first glance it would seem that China's new Internet is a lot like its old Internet. Overseas sites that are deemed sensitive — including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, among thousands of others — are blocked, part of a network of control sometimes called the Great Firewall of China. Inside the wall, Chinese search engines won't, for example, link to content to do with the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo or Tibetan independence; also, domestic Internet companies are required to delete any material that the authorities find objectionable. Even as China's Netizens have rushed to embrace Web 2.0, an Internet in which users are more closely and quickly linked by social-networking services, microblogs and free video hosting, those rules have still applied. ...