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Yeah, What They Said, links to interesting stories that I don't have time to write about. Some people call it "link sharing." Why “Vote For The Worst” Just Might Work. Medialoper has a Theory of Popularity in a niche-dominated, long tail world and relates it to American Idol: "In a culture defined by niches, the more popular something is purported to be, the less popular it actually is." Director Nicholas Meyer ...

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So the news recently hit that Weird Al finally has a Top 10 record after all these years. According to Billboard, that's 73,000 copies of Straight Outta Lynwood sold. Congrats to Al; he deserves it. It's worth noting, though, that album sales are down overall and that nearly equal sales of 72,310 only ranked a 16 on the Billboard 200 for 1999's Running with Scissors. But really, that news has got ...

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