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Microsoft's live broadcasting of the "Live Earth" concerts held across the world have not only done well, but have also broken world history records for the most event or celebration watched online. In the more then a decade that the Internet has been publicly used, we have seen various events broadcasted live on the Internet including Woodstock, New Year Celebrations (Millennium celebration), premier of movies, live casting of historical events like the War in Iraq, news broadcastings live from the scene (9/11, 7/7 newscasts) and even television premiers.

What's all the more fascinating is that despite the heavy on-line popularity of the event, Live Earth suffered from poor television ratings. This is most certainly a sign of things to come, as more people flock to their computer screen then to their television set for breaking news and entertainment.

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Posted by James at 11:54 PM | Permalink | Comments

In anticipation of the Simpsons Movie, 14 Springfields across America were nominated to take part in an Official content which would dub one of the lucky towns to be dubbed the real "Springfield" - a crowning glory that would render the town the official headquarters of everything Simpsons. Not only that but it would bring much tourism and attraction to the town, and so all 14 towns which had been previously unknown to the drones of Simpsons fans battled it out via city-created videos that were posted on the USAToday and Simpsons webpage.

The winner with an astounding 15,367 votes was Springfield in Vermont, followed closely by the Springfield in Illinois (14, 634) and Oregon (13,894). What is upsetting is that many (if not all) of these cities could not care less for the show, but rather see it as a cheap way to increase tourism and so each city created a video that showcased why they should be the real Springfield - and to be honest not one video showed the sincerity of the Springfieldians. If I were in charge of one of these campaigns, I would probably have just rounded up a few teenagers and just held some sort of trivia competition - a real test to show how cult like the city really was or perhaps re-enact an entire episode with the locals. But instead most chose to do a very poor satirical attempt in showing the similarities between the cartoon show and their own respective town.
Jokes fell flat, half-assed attempts were clear, and ultimately out of the many - the best was chosen. Vermont did the best job in my opinion, although it wasn't perfect or to my liking, I did end up voting for it.

So what does this all mean? The winning city (Springfield, Vermont) gets a pre-screening of the movie (July 21st) before the International screening on July 27th. Tickets are already up for pre-ordering by the way.

Labels: 27th, bart, competiton, homer, international, july, movie, online, screening, simpson, simpsons, springfield, television show, the simpsons, tv, tv show

Posted by James at 11:46 PM | Permalink | Comments