Night gathers and now my watch begins

I agree with Justin Bieber.

Yep. Never thought I would say that.  What we agree on is SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or as I like to call it  – The Death to YouTube Bill. This bill would jail people for posting other people’s work on youtube, even their own performances of other people’s work. So Justin could then go to jail for the very videos that made him the new King of Pop. Irony!

“People need to have the freedom… people need to be able to sing songs. I just think that’s ridiculous.” – The Bieb

I agree it is ridiculous. But I think it goes beyond whether or not I want to sing a cover of Yesterday by the Beatles (maybe with some different lyrics)

It’s about the freedom to express yourself online. To create Art for the shear sake of Art. I haven’t made a dime off anything I have put on YouTube. I don’t imagine I ever will, and even if I do make some change off it, it will never be enough to cover the costs of my equipment. You shouldn’t have to go to jail for a hobby. You shouldn’t have to go to jail for being a fan.

I am not a fan of Bieber’s. (though I do have some respect for him now) I am a fan of Pink Floyd…and I’ve been reading George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire Series that HBO has based Game of Thrones on…Oh and did I mention it was Mashup week on Glee? I always find that inspiring.

Here’s the latest video from the warped mind of  Stonygirl…. enjoy.

or do they?

I did a weird experiment on twitter today. The results shocked me so as a good scientist I repeated the experiment to verify the results – and just for you guys I taped it…

it has now been an hour.
#LawsMenShouldFollow is still in the lead at 933 tweets
#thewayiseeit -twitter’s number one trender is in second at 820
#HappyBirthdayLittleWayne is in third at 808 tweets
#OccupyWallStreet has 788 tweets but is no where to be found on the list.

As a side experiment I am now timing tweets for #SORRYJESUS and #PapooseSaid – giving it five minutes.

tick tock.

OK in five minutes
#SORRYJESUS has recieved 0 new tweets
#PapooseSaid has recieved 26 new tweets
and
#OccupyWallStreet has recieved 60 new tweets

yet twitters top five are still
#thewayiseeit
#LawsMenShouldFollow
Happy Birthday Lil Wayne
#PapooseSaid
SORRY JESUS

how do they determine their top tweets?