2.26.12 Adam on Ask Anything! Remix Clip

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It's a good point and a great opportunity for a reminder to MAKE IT A POINT TO ALWAYS CLICK ON THE ORIGINAL LINK. I do. It's rather easy, but many people cannot access the videos and photos because of Flash or country prohibitions. Fans rip things so that everyone has an opportunity to see. But those who collect, format and share media are always emphatic people make sure to hit the original source whenever possible.

The Friday when BTIKM was released and being reviewed coincided with another round of Queen rumors press and stories were coming so dang fast that I could barely keep up, but I clicked on every one of them, and read the piece, even if it was a cut/paste job from another story. By the end of the day, I was exhausted, sure I had clicked on more than 100 stories that day. Media knows they're competing with every other outlet, and sometimes they straight out "borrow" from others.

The Socialite Life and Celebrity Gossip usually get the same pap photos as Jared, but he beats them by an hour almost always. Even though we've seen and posted the pics, I think most people (on my feed anyway) still view the entire slide show both to hit the site and to see if there are any new photos.

On Twitter, I think the vast majority of people always link to the original story, with the exception of translations, but Mia and Zinnia always remind people to click on Sauli's original links and don't bring over the photos as a added incentive to get people to remember to click on his links.

Proliferation of links and stories is always a good thing, I think. When I post an article here, I rarely do it in its entirety (unless it's a paragraph), always post the original link and make sure everyone knows there is (MORE), as do Gelly, Wal and most who bring over news.

Regarding YouTube, NBC does a very good job keeping its stuff proprietary when it is brand new, but it seems they let it go after awhile. For instance, the day after Leno performance, they took down every YT and kept driving people back to their site. They do this with everything - SNL sketches, in particular. When they are hot buzz, they'll drive everyone back to the NBC sites, but it seems they let it go after a week or two and know the publicity driven by the YouTubes is as valuable as the hits from an older clip.

NoAngel wrote:
The analogy of Adam as Icarus has been attributed to Eber, who purportedly posted on an Idol forum after the AMAs that Adam's "willingness to leap toward the sun is what thrills us about him," and this is true. Only yesterday in the Saturday Night Online chat Adam told us that if he were a mythical creature he'd like to be a dragon and to have the power to fly. I think Adam knows himself better than his father knows him in this case. The fire is in Adam's belly, not in the star towards which he reaches. He flies, not with borrowed wings, but under his own power, fueled by his own passion. If he misses the mark he blames no one but himself and wears his singed wings as a badge of honor.

This is why, no matter what happens onstage in July, Adam has already touched the sun.

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Oh, NoAngel, you are a wonderful writer. This brought tears - happy, I think. That's all I can say...

I think that Adam is an excellent dancer on par with most global pop stars -- and well above the average Idol contestant, I still do not understand why he said that -- but maybe he could not think of anything else? Cause in my "completely unbiased opinion" he was pretty much perfect on Idol.