Grab your camcorders and mics, (and maybe some zombie make-up!), and get ready to video-tape the first of what promises to be an annual event: the world’s largest “Thriller” dance!

In tribute to Michael Jackson, and because it’s good clean fun, someone started up the international Thriller dance-a-thon that is supposed to go on all over the world – at the same time.

A website, Thrill the World, was created just to organize this event, and you can find out there where the Thriller dance is going on in your neighborhood, or try to get one started… but hurry, the dance is happening this coming Saturday.
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I just found this post on Gizmodo that I thought I’d share with you before the weekend. In one of those rare shots of Michael Jackson as “just an ordinary guy”, he’s checking out the camcorders at an interview in Ireland. First the Sony F900 Sony then the HVR-Z1U.

Read the story and watch the footage here:

http://gizmodo.com/5303026/michael-jackson-gets-his-geek-on

Happy Weekend

AOL wrote: “Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.”

The news of Michael Jackson’s trauma was instantaneous, moving so fast, that many people weren’t sure where the news was coming from, or what condition the pop star was in. One thing was clear, though, Jackson’s death is admittedly the largest single event ever to hit the internet. The global expanse was amazing, eliciting instant responses from heads of state like former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who said: “We lost a hero of the world.”

The surprise that news of the death of the self-proclaimed King of Pop could be felt so worldwide isn’t surprising, as he was recently listed as the 6th most well-known person in the world. What what was surprising, though, was how fast the news spread and how it triggered so much activity that the internet wobbled from the heavy traffic.  

The Los Angeles Times reports that Twitter received 5000 tweets a minute at the peak of the flurry. From Facebook to Yahoo Instant Messaging, the story was told not by a television or radio “Breaking News” interrupt, but by the person next door, across the street and around the world.

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