JUSTIN BIEBER AND SELENA GOMEZ ARE FRIENDS
Two of the world’s most popular teens this year Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez were snapped sharing a laugh in Miami. Along with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Lautner these teens ranked in Google’s top ten names in the world of people most searched for on a search engine in 2010. Bieber and Gomez in the top three.
Both Gomez and Cyrus were spun into stars from Disney perhaps indicating the strength of the Mouse House to generate global stars. Singing teens is a key of the world’s brightest stars today.
[Pic via Splash]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.18.10~
MAORI ON GOOGLE BOOKS! – ALREADY I HAVE ISSUES WITH GOOGLE LABS – BOOKS NGRAM VIEWER
[AI suggestion - perhaps NGRAM needs to go back to the chalk board phase]
If I was naive enough to believe Google’s “Books Ngram Viewer” that claims to count words based on 5 million published books and track their trends in terms of amount of times words appear in books (quantitative research), the Maori people of New Zealand would not fare well. The results would have me rehashing that archaic dead-end term, “racism” asap. Maori don’t like doing that in this enlightened age. It does not get people very far, because it immediately casts Maori in the light of having to drive a car fueled by ‘white man’s guilt.’ When you drive on whenua (land) that has tar seal put on it and called a “road,” that would be too much “irony” for a Maori to handle in any given day. Besides, why should we? That’s something that would appeal as a college student. The past is healing.
The tracking tool claims (my search conducted between years 1920 and 2008) that the word “Maori” peaked as a topic of interest in books in the year of 1978 (aprox). Since then it’s plummeted and currently, the usage of the word Maori is as low as its status listed in 1950 findings that’s given in the little graph that pops up. Already, this NGRAM Viewing tool of Google is capable of starting civil wars. I don’t like it much at all so far.
Being scientific, with heart and soul – this means: a) Maori are extinct again – a typical ‘pseudo-scientific’ finding (yawn!) Maori have learned to ignore since being able to read maps – but this time in a literary sense.
Already this supposedly revolutionary tool of technology is spitting out results generating ‘information’ that is rather boring quite frankly in my humble opinion. I say this because such ‘information’ has been so done TO DEATH already! (more…)
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – THU 12.16.10
We live in an age where power people are obsessed with owning, quantifying/ qualifying WORDS, their USAGE, their CONTEXT, their HISTORY, their ORIGIN, their FREQUENCY and most of all THEIR MEANING. Why do words scare/ fascinate obsessive people so much?–Horiwood 2010′s.
Have you ever heard of the term culturomics? It posits that technology (a tracking tool developed by Google) can track words of scanned books and work out totals and frequencies of the words used and in what context. That’s amazing – because we have to believe the findings are true. I mean–it’s not like we’re going to manually go through 17,000 books for examples and check are we.
This either makes us extremely ‘trusting in Google’s brand integrity’ or extremely vulnerable and naive to being manipulated by Google as a ‘cultural engineer’ shaping our perceptions of culture past, in books.
Wikileaks taught us perhaps, that we can’t really trust people who manipulate data or information. We just can’t any longer–with no offense to the good people at Google, of course. In general we just live in an age–where data is being manipulated for other means than what we initially think. The global economic crises also taught us this outside of words, regarding numbers, as well.
So which one are we? Gullible or trusting in whatever Google’s new tool claims are ‘definitive’ findings? As always –perhaps ride the middle line, and believe half of what ‘culturomics’ findings tell us. Otherwise it’s a new invented ‘literary religion based on key findings’ with no checks and balances, that cannot be debated either, because it has the appearance of being ‘scientific.’ Culturomics is either going to be really good or really darn scary–there’s no middle ground to it, as it’s completely unaccountable to other technology counter-scanning and collating its findings at this point. Or in other words, it’s not scientific, yet its outcomes posited are claiming to be pure quantitative science. A full press release by Google follows below our top ten results today about it–positioned as a news story.
Hollywood entertainment and celebritiy news posts voted hot today worldwide. Here’s our top ten. Thanks beautiful people. Enjoy!
1. Angelina Jolie humor via E-Bay limited edition is cute
2. Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie lead Golden Globe nominations
3. A Kardashian family Christmas card 2010
4. 270 Films of 2010 montaged into one concise trailer–that saved time!
5. 50 Top Voted Stars of 2010… a labor of love in progress
6. Scarlett Johansson‘s strawberry breakup with beauty
7. Taylor Lautner - Men’s Fitness
8. Bollywood‘s top ten stars of 2009
9. Christmas Cheer via New Zealand is funny
10. Natalie Portman dreams of taking time off from work
Bonus Post: Jamiroquai for Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2010
Bonus Post: US Media ask naively about ‘lost trust’ over Wikileaks
Bonus Post: Flash Mob Opera at Reading Terminal
Bonus Post: 10 Things on Mark Zuckerberg being named Time‘s no.1 -2010
Bonus Post: Trends on Bing.Com 2010
Bonus Post: Blue Gangsta – New Michael Jackson Music
Bonus Post: Poetry: Republic of Fiji by David Eggleton
Bonus Post: Alexander Rybak for Barack Obama - 1 year ago
Gosh doing the bonus posts is far more rewarding than putting one’s hopes in the Lotto power ball. Lol!
Jane Seo on Culturomics for The Harvard Crimson writes this Press Release:
“A team of Harvard researchers has created a new tool that analyzes language patterns in published books to quantify cultural and historical trends from 1800 to 2000.
The innovative research tool made its debut yesterday in an article titled “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books,” which was published online in the journal Science and launched as a feature on Google.
[The Guardian UK posits Google's word-counting tool fancies Sigmund Freud of many other fine philosophers]
Dubbed “culturomics,” the tool enables the public to use the Google Books database as a “genome of culture,” according to Adrian Veres ’12, one of the article’s authors.
[Movie still image via Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince courtesy of This Website]
OUR WORLD ACCORDING TO GOOGLE ZIETGEIST MONTAGE HIGHLIGHTS 2010
What a year! Watch the headlines, topics, themes, tragedies, humorous entertainers, unexpected and expected events that wowed us all in 2010 according to Googles top trending topics. Video montages are always tumeke! Watch this one. What a blur. Complete Results Here:
Fastest Rising Top Ten Were:
1. chatroulette. 2. iPad. 3. Justin Bieber. 4. Nicki Minaj. 5. Friv. 6. myxer. 7. Katy Perry. 8. twitter. 9. gamezer. 10. Facebook.
Already I can spot an inconsistency or two with Google Zietgeist results. For example: Justin Bieber is listed in the Fastest Rising Entertainment topics of 2010, whereas Katy isn’t.
Does Google think that Mrs Perry-Brand is not an entertainer? What went on there. *jokes*. Also Facebook should trend higher than twitter on these results but Google can’t quite bring themselves to do that. Never mind! Maybe next year.
Also the words ‘recession’ and ‘economic crises’ are magically not present here. It’s like, come on guys and girls at Google! Who are you fooling with your magic eraser? Hey!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.16.10~
MIRRORED INITIALED OPPOSITE NAMES – 12.6.10
A wise lady once told me–”everything has it’s own opposite.”
Isn’t it strange that at this moment in history when it comes to the initials of peoples names that:
Julian Assange‘s name is the reverse flip out of Angelina Jolie‘s name. And…
Chelsea Handler‘s name is the reverse flip out of Hillary Clinton‘s initials.
It’s about time Angelina and Hillary went for lunch and discussed what’s up–the Yarra river is a nice spot, I believe.
[Jennifer Aniston must be p*ssed Julian Assange has taken her 'flip out' name spot. Google search engine is now churning those consonants, with search engine spiders registering, Jennifer who? Incidentally Daniel Assange's name (son of Julian) also replaces David Arquettes.]
Family stories always win. A wise use of energy and focus invested. After all, nations and the wider world are a family.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.6.10~
26 CONSONANTS AS SYMBOLS THAT DEFINE MEANING, AND GOOGLE’S POWER OBSESSION TO OWN THE WAY THEY ARE USED
A consonant’s single power to define, reorder meaning in a collective of consonants–and who owns their arrangement in “words” that form “meaning” to create “laws” that protect and privilege certain people over others, in “books” or corporate or government “notes” and leaked “documents”– is the top trend in the world today–this week. It’s all about information sharing of consonants and written symbols today as collected via computer technology–and who has a right to “distribute” these consonants arrangement on a data file or printed page (being digitalized) to fellow human beings, supposedly deeply affected by these “words” and “consonants” arrangement and ordering of expression.
Are letters (written consonants/ symbols of a few people) more important than the lives of the majority of people?
Do we worship the iconography of our own words and their protection more so than lives being lost every second?
Do consonants really determine Freedom? Or, is freedom shared in the spirit of brotherhood worldwide — bigger and more spiritual than written consonants alone devoid of human bodies, flesh, blood, melanin and bone and breath–transcending the limitations of just the letter of the law? I think the true essence and meaning of Liberty is. Living words are always so much more what we all serve. Or should. Not death words or death systems words for the majority of people on the planet.
Which is why I think a war of data distribution “ownership” and “protection of certain peoples words over another’s” or “exclusion of some peoples words from finding other peoples eyes and ears too” is a little silly.
It reeks of entitlement of a few–and that’s an archaic model that isn’t serving the majority of peoples interests in the world today in many political systems. The world is changing –keep UP!
I was thinking that with the Wikileaks scandal, with Google’s scanning of every Victorian book ever printed in the 19th Century, and also every book ever printed–that the world is getting a little bit obsessed about owning the 26 consonants of the English language, how they have been used in history, how they are being arranged today–and what meaning these 26 letters can create.
So for all of the power freaks in the world, who want to own all words ever written and printed (with 26 letters of the English alphabet), want to control their distribution, and definitive ‘scientific’ arrangement and meaning–my suggestion is, that perhaps: a) you dropped out of school too young, b) you always wanted to be a writer but never had the talent c) your sibling got more alphabet soup in their plate than you did–because this ‘control obsession’ with data ownership based on ownership of words and symbols of letters is getting a bit ridiculous.
You see, true creativity is a symbol of endless power that is not stuck, static or frozen. Meaning is created by such people that is relevant in any era we all live in.
True creative people create new words all the time, that can never be controlled. Once upon a time, Beyonce in the group Destiny’s Child coined the term “bootylicious” to express an African American form of sexiness in order to bring awareness to her difference and to create space for her peoples’ unique representation in the world. It was a ridiculous word, yet the people decided it wasn’t. The word became a no. 1 hit pop song and is now entered into and included into the English dictionary of globally understood meaning.
[Images from Google Books, home page today, top banner visuals as at 12.5.10]. FYI, I haven’t read one of these books and never once felt the need to. We have amazing authors in New Zealand like Janet Frame and Patricia Grace–all of whose books I haven’t read yet–before these lads writing books would get a look in, to my reading glasses. However, this is who google touts what we should all be reading today. Wow!]
SCANNING VICTORIAN CULTURE – VICTORIAN KEY WORDS ARE SCANNED TO BE ANALYZED
To date Google has access to scanned digital information of books: Number of books scanned: fifteen million. Number of pages: five billion. Number of words: over two trillion discovered. [Read these Keynote speech docs ...Keynote Speech docs to discover more]. Word fascination means that Projects like Google Books, the Internet Archive’s OpenLibrary, and HathiTrust are growing.
Knowing how Victorian mindsets tick is an Obsession right now with some American academics. The UK is about to become more transparent in its information sharing of greatest literary minds past: This story fascinates in The New York Times. Photo by Erik Jacobs.
Selected paragraphs penned by Patricia Cohen:
“Victorians were enamored of the new science of statistics, so it seems fitting that these pioneering data hounds are now the subject of an unusual experiment in statistical analysis. The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.”
“Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs, the two historians of science at George Mason University who have created the project, have so far charted how frequently more than two dozen words — among them “God,” “love,” “work,” “science” and “industrial” — appear in British book titles from the French Revolution in 1789 to the beginning of World War I in 1914.”
As Cohen gave an early presentation of findings to date, “Meredith Martin, an assistant professor of English at Princeton who is studying the history of poetic form, was interested in the terms “prosody,” “meter” and “verse.”“I actually sent him an e-mail as he was talking,” Ms. Martin said. She figured he would be inundated with requests, and “I wanted to be first in line.””
GOOGLE SEARCH ON NICKI MINAJ
Here’s what fans of Nicki Minaj search for her under, on Google Search here in the USA. Well… according to google’s aggregated software findings, that is.
A charming bunch of search questions, not! Poor Nicki Minaj.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.3.10~
JERSEY SHORE’S SNOOKI ‘FAN’ ANALYSIS- GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE USERS ARE OFTEN NOT VERY NICE PEOPLE
Poor Snooki Polizzi of reality TV show Jersey Shore. Her fans are kinda vicious, as googles top searches under her name indicate. Meow America!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
GOOGLE SEARCH ON CHERYL COLE
“Spread your wings and cover me”–Cheryl Cole lyrics from Promise This
Here’s all the haters looking for information on Google Search about Cheryl Cole. These are the top searches under her name.
Why is it a fundamental trait, for many people to desire, that other people who are doing well, die?
That’s sick.
Anyway, here’s a snippet from Cheryl’s new song. I totally dig her music. Her lyrics are uplifting and her beats are danceable. Ms. Cole is well worthy of buying an album from. Here’s a snipppet from Promise This.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
LOL! GOOGLE SEARCH ON KATHY GRIFFEN
In West Hollywood, Kathy Griffin‘s mom drinks at that bar that hosts Tiger Beat nights, for happy hour. She’s a riot.
Anyway, here’s what google has to say about Irish-Catholic raised Kathy Griffin when people search for Kathy’s name under google’s search engine results.
Feel the burn. That was harsh. Poor Kathy. Her mother’s really nice, if that’s a resume plug for Kathy, here in West Hollywood. Surely, that’s got to count for something in Hollywood land.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
GOOGLE SEARCH ON BRITNEY SPEARS AND ISLAMOPHOBIA
More proof that if you want to lead, you’re going to be called every name under the sun. Here’s what google registered as being the most requested google search results for pop star, Britney Spears.
Britney Spears is Islam? That was an unexpected one! A Southern girl whose positioned at the cross-roads of being an Islamophobia/ or anti-islamaphobia pin up girl? Who would have thought. Go Britney!!! :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
GOOGLE ON BEYONCE
This is what google search has to say about Beyonce when looking for the diva’s name in google search.
For every celebrity fan, there are also a half a million haters as these results show. But at least these search results (aggregated from the masses) are a lot kinder than those for Lady Gaga.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
GOOGLE SEARCH ON LADY GAGA
Theys are the top searches Google brings up when you type in Lady Gaga‘s name.
“Talented” is a word, that should be #1 when looking for this young lady’s name. But oh well. :)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.2.10~
THE BOOK HUNTER VS GOOGLE BOOKS
Words from a book lover whose google addicted: Someone in the world, needs to stand up to Google Books, capturing thousands of authors books, scanning these and making them available to the public, bypassing the author’s royalty rights and pay checks of book distribution in this process. Google would like us to believe they have settled all of these disputes. Personally, I’ve never got a check from Google, for my published works they stole/ shared (I’m still deciding how I feel about those last two words. Lol!).
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not judging google too harshly–as I would have no content on this blog without google, or other writers I ‘borrow’ from constantly. Without google it would not be easy to find this blog without google either. I also would personally struggle with not using google books, if there was information in a book I wanted to read asap, and Google Books had these book pages, accessible to read in a nano-second online–as I write this post.
But seriously, when you check out what google is doing to author’s future paychecks–it’s nothing short of criminal.
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – THU 5.21.2010
[Image: Mount Haramon as viewed from Hasbaya --courtesy of Ramiz Dalli]
~”I’m gonna stand out here on the mountain top/Till I feel your [Rain]… And now I’ll wait for the light, I’ll wait for the sun/ Till I feel your [Rain]“–Madonna
The 80′s were years of think big, bold, colorful thoughts. You couldn’t help but grow and expand with creativity. Symbols inspiring big thoughts were everywhere. Today Google are celebrating the 80′s by turning google’s logo into the PacMan video game. Fun. Pacman is universally loved as entertainment–as light relief to pass the time, especially in India and China–so that’s a smart move to expand Microsoft’s global audience appeal with this logo. Fun sells.
And as Horiwood.Com is celebrating the life of Aunt Elvira as a Mother of Los Angeles industry and women of business development in The City of Angels revolutionary formative years of American women’s pioneering legends of modern American business, here’s 80′s pop icon, Madonna with her song, Rain.
1. Harvard ‘s Emma Watson appears for One Night Only
2. Tori Spelling is in Turks and Caicos
3. Oprah and Eli Broad know how to party for CALIFORNIA
4. Beyonce sings for Mexican royalty in The White House
5. Calling Quantcast out on their biz lies
6. World trends: the WORDS people love to hate
7. Megan Fox turns down Transformers 3 role
8. Hollywood Humor is Cameron Diaz & Tom Cruz on set
9. Robert Pattinson‘s tabloid marriage proposal rates
10. Lady Gaga treks out her Alejandro video from LA
In Celebration of a Queen’s Life: Aunt Elvira is A Mother of LA
Lyrics to Madonna ‘s Rain follow:
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 5.21.2010~
THE TOP TEN FASTEST RISING NAMES OF ENTERTAINMENT, OUTSIDE OF ASIA 2010?
If you haven’t heard these names good on ya! I don’t know how you found this blog. Anyway, according to Google Zeitgeist’s result’s that have been okay-ed for distribution, these are the top ten fastest rising names of the Entertainment world, outside of Asian nations. A youthful burst of (mainly) American faces. They are:
1. Justin Bieber. 2. Katy Perry. 3. Selena Gomez. 4. Kim Kardashian. 5. Eminem 6. Lady Gaga. 7. Miley Cyrus. 8. Taylor Lautner. 9. Megan Fox. 10. Robert Pattinson.
Other trending names: Shakira, Netflix. Youtube Videos. Ke$ha. Nicki Minaj. Grooveshark. Transformers 3.
All I can say is: There is no Bollywood stars here (a weakness Google needs to improve on to grow market share, still this year) and thank goodness for Robert Pattinson and Shakira, otherwise there would be nobody who wasn’t American in this list other than Bieber.
Come on Google! Be more sharing and reflective.
Zero grade for cross-cultural spirit from an American-owned IT company! You’d think the world was American looking at these results. What a false and deluded bubble that is, to present such a vision to the world. Let’s hope next year Google USA isn’t so insecure. I have a blog, I too know who trends each day.
It’s a pity the Wikileaks scandal didn’t involve the real Google Zeitgiest results. Just saying. This list conveys a vision of ‘cultural imperialism’ that is skewed America’s way. Ideological brainwashing on display, a tad here to be remotely feasible.
I even ask whether Google was censored this year? Unreal. With the exception of Eminem, Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha’s inclusion and Selena Gomez being bumped onto the list at no.3 to reflect the latest US census results proving more Hispanic-American than envisaged–this reads like last year’s list of entertainers. This list feels stale.
[Image via WTF]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.16.10~
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