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Forget MySpace. Forget Facebook. Twitter is the current cyberspace ruler.
Comedians love it - find out why.
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Last October I wrote about the boom in internet sites opening up dedicated to comedy videos in the US and over here in Blighty. Seemed this was the next stage in how us web-addicted drones get our comedy fix. Well, I was wrong. Kinda.
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There's been a lot of hubbub recently over comedians having their jokes nicked. An article in the Independent highlighted the plight of Gary Delaney, who discovered his jokes appearing online without any acknowledgement that he wrote them. When contacting sickipedia.org to request the jokes be taken down, he was apparently met with a torrent of abuse from the site's users.
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Did you know that the term 'podcast' was coined by some bloke by accident? Back in 2004 a Guardian journalist called Ben Hammersley wrote a piece about the boom in online radio and was musing on what to call this new craze talking over the web.
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'Comedy' is one of the all-time most searched for terms on the internet. It regularly sits amongst the top three, after news and that other genre of entertainment that I won't go into here but suffice to say it usually invoices some girl called Shannon wearing glass stilettos while being vigorously interfered with by one or more men on an Ikea sofa.
Twitter: A comedian's paradise
Posted by Dave Heckler on 20 Oct 10 in Comedy blog, Comedy writers, Online, Satire and Stand up