Fame itself is viral if the enduring popularity of some celebrities, even those who have not achieved or performed anything especially noteworthy in quite some time, is anything to go by.
Prominent people stay popular for longer than they ought to because they serve as conversational fodder, which in turn drives more media coverage. “Take Paris [...]

The real measure of a song’s popularity is not in the number of sales but rather the number of times it is listened to, information that is now relatively easy to collect by way of desktop and portable music players.
Forty years ago, a music label like Capitol would know how many copies the album Abbey [...]

In order to increase their influence, and become more highly regarded by a greater number of people, does a previously outspoken person need to adopt more conventional, or mainstream, views?
The short answer is often yes, which usually goes on to – rightly or wrongly – result in charges of “selling out”.
Influential people are asked [...]

Web server melting levels of traffic are the contemporary equivalent of a standing ovation writes Sasha Frere-Jones:
What is the mark of Web success in 2009? A million page views in a week? A spike in Twitter mentions? Both are meaningful indices, but not quite as satisfying as traffic crashing your whole site. It’s the Internet [...]

What is cool design? While what is considered vogue and popular may change over time, it seems that word itself, cool, remains the word to use when describing something as such.
Ultimately, the cycle of cool is fuelled by our appetite for the uncommon, or that which is novel. Therefore it can be expected that cool [...]

Not to sound too mercenary, or put down those who are genuinely interested in helping others, but it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that people contributing to websites other than their own, are hoping their efforts will in-fact win them some recognition or profile as a result:
The success of “crowdsourced” websites like YouTube and [...]

As voted by ABC viewers in Australia.
While I only saw 27 of the overall top 100, I did see seven of the top ten movies.
Via Twitter and Monica Tan.

Time.com’s First Annual Blog Index
From millions of blogs about nothing, we’ve selected the 25 best about something – from politics to sports to sex. And, yes, we’ve got a few about nothing, too.

As with the The world’s 50 most powerful blogs, published recently by the The Guardian, political blog The Huffington Post was ranked number [...]