The viral blockbuster award of this week definitely goes to Charlie Brooker. "It starts here with a lacklustre establishing shot of a significant location," is the first sentence of Brooker's spoof news report for BBC Four's Newswipe showing, of course, no significant location but some random dirt-brownish looking skyscrapers in the London Docklands.
Brooker is hilariously ripping apart the formula of how a standard news piece is put together piece by piece, so precisely that from now on every journalism student will have to watch this as a training film.
Looking further afield, controversy is building in the US ahead of the coveted half-time ad slots on the Super Bowl – which will be shown on CBS this weekend.
CBS has been criticised for its decision to air an anti-abortion spot from the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. There are CBS in-house guidelines against airing "advocacy" ads, which are being reviewed. Interestingly, CBS rejected an ad for the gay dating site ManCrunch.com.
Say hello to the Raging Grannies, social rights acitivists who dress up in clothes that mock stereotypes of older women, and are scoring social media success. Here's what they think of the CBS Super Bowl ads policy.
1 Worker looking at nude photos in background (Miranda Kerr) - Seven News Update
Macquarie Private Wealth's analyst shares his opinion on interest rates, while in the background at this Australian office an investment manager is looking at online pics of a nearly naked Miranda Kerr. Oops.
2 iPad Keynote in less than 180 Seconds: Incredible, Beautiful, Amazing!
Wanna learn about American optimism? Neil Curtis compiled the adjectives used during last Apple's keynote. Awesome, dude!
3 Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News
Charlie Brooker sensationally reveals that news doesn't necessarily need to be new – or have any content, and this no-newsflash even made it to the Huffington Post. Hold the front page!
4 Extreme Sheep LED Art
Welsh hill farmers creating a lovely animation with their, yes, sheep. This [copy positive adjectives from the iPad Keynote here, please] video has been online for quite a while now. If you haven't seen it, don't miss!
5 Celine Dion and others recording "We Are The World - 25 for Haiti"
In 1985 they managed to bring together the biggest stars of the record industry. This time, well, they've got Celine Dion, Usher, and Justin Bieber.
6 Her morning elegance - Oren Lavi
The Israeli singer has just won a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Short Form Music Video category. His video is showing a girl in bed using stop motion technique. It was made of 2,096 still photographs, which you can now buy for $250 each. Is it worth it?
7 Mel Gibson Calls Reporter an Asshole
He's staring from a big TV screen on weird looking museum shelves while being interviewed about for his new movie by a reporter who asks him about the drinking problem he had four years ago. Is Mel Gibson justified in saying what he thinks?
8 Jedward featuring Vanilla Ice - Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)
They are back, the cute two jumping jacks who prove you can do what you want as long as you want it baaaad enough. Perhaps. You love them for that?
9 Raging Grannies Rip CBS Anti-Choice Super Bowl Ad
At the upcoming Super Bowl CBS is letting the Christian right group Focus on the Family to broadcast their view for $3m. Here is the crass answer of the Raging Grannies of South Florida
10 KE$HA TIK TOK Parody: Glitter Puke - Key of Awe$ome #13
Singer Ke$ha is getting big by glorifying the party lifestyle. Barely political shows how much more fun you can have on the next day, yay!
Source: Most from Unruly Media. Compiled from data gathered at 12:00 on February 4 2010. The Viral Video Chart measures the viral dissemination of both brand-driven and user-uploaded videos across social media environments. Videos are ranked by the velocity of citations, based on a real-time analysis of over 50 million blogs and microblogging profiles. View and comment counts are cumulative and are aggregated across all known instances of the video. For more detailed metrics contact Unruly Media.
