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The best guide to what’s hot in movies, music and popular culture these days is to track what people are sharing online. Wired magazine has just released it’s “Top of the Swaps” for 2007. Wired used LA-based BigChampagne Online Media Measurement to track media-consumption trends across all digital channels – legal and illegal. And the winners are …

    Top Songs of 2007
    1. Shop Boyz, “Party Like A Rock Star”
    2. Akon, “I Wanna Luv U”
    3. Sean Kingston, “Beautiful Girls”
    4. Mims, “This Is Why I’m Hot”
    5. Akon, “Don’t Matter”
    6. T-Pain, “Bartender”
    7. Soulja Boy, “Crank Dat Soulja Boy”
    8. Justin Timberlake, “My Love”
    9. DJ Unk, “Walk It Out”
    10. Jim Jones, “We Fly High”

    Top Movies of 2007
    1. Resident Evil: Extinction
    2. Pirates of The Caribbean: At World’s End
    3. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
    4. Ratatouille
    5. Superbad
    6. Beowulf
    7. Transformers
    8. American Gangster
    9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    10. Stardust

    Top TV Shows of 2007
    1. “Heroes”
    2. “Prison Break”
    3. “Top Gear”
    4. “Smallville”
    5. “Desperate Housewives”
    6. “House, M.D.”
    7. “Lost”
    8. “Grey’s Anatomy”
    9. “24”
    10. “Dexter”

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Daily balls

Posted: December 13, 2007 in football, internet

If you find keeping up with all the soccer news a full-time job, I can thoroughly recommend subscribing to The Time’s Ahead of the Game e-mail. It contains a daily fix of all the footy news and witticisms you need and takes less than five minutes to skim through – plus there are daily YouTube links for you sorry people who don’t have jobs, lives, families, etc. to occupy your waking hours. Among today’s gems, insight from Sven on why Capello’s lack of English wouldn’t be a hindrance to him getting the England job:  “It certainly wasn’t a problem for me as I spoke to him in Italian!” he said helpfully. And for more on Fabulous Capello, the man who once asked Ronaldo, “Aren’t you ashamed of being so fat?”, check out The Times’  A-Z on the man.   Now if only The Times could clear it with their legal department for overseas viewers to watch the Premier League highlights they post every week ….