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• For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot

  his tabby Mary Jane perched on his shoulder. Their urban adventures have turned heads on the street and garnered big hits on YouTube.The 26-year-old bike courier didn't intend to become Internet-famous. He originally shot footage of their outings only to prove   Read more »

• Agrarian Urbanity & Other Strange Pairings

  parents emigrated here from lands where the sheep roam free and the goats know very little about YouTube. They knew full well when crossing the Atlantic that, in the great metropolis of New York City, life would be a far cry from the motherland’s pastoral   Read more »

• Streaming now counts toward gold records

  ), artists can include songs streamed online through on-demand services like Spotify and Rhapsody , as well as videos streamed on YouTube , in tallies to get a gold or platinum single, alongside sales. While it still takes 500,000 downloads to get a gold digital   Read more »

• Google I/O conference announces new music, maps, photo features

  on hand, giving Google a chance to generate more hoopla about its latest innovations. The keynote was also available live on a YouTube webcast. Android already has been activated on 900 million devices made by Samsung Electronics Co., HTC Corp. and other manufacturers.   Read more »

• Suffolk police probes YouTube video of cop grabbing man's throat

  Suffolk police department's internal affairs bureau is investigating a video posted on YouTube Monday of a Suffolk officer grabbing the throat of a man and shoving him back.The 31-second video shows Michael Schuchman in his Sound Beach kitchen, where he's   Read more »

Around the web

• From Here You Can See Everything

  circling, kind of predatory. It feels like it’s bingeing back. The basic currency of consumer media companies—Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, NBC, Fox News, Facebook, Pinterest, etc.—is hours of attention, our attention. They want our eyeballs focused on their content 45 m ago from Maoxian Read more »

• FILM: Curious George

  best-selling author, Hollywood actor, A-list socialite and party host, and, later in life, Orson Welles–style TV pitchman. (YouTube his spots for Intellivision, the Betamax of early home video game systems.) Filmmakers Tom Bean and Luke Poling, who were given 12:07 AM from artforum.com Read more »

• Chinese Social Web Comes to US VP's Defense Over China Comment

  you aren't able to challenge orthodoxy, because change only comes from challenging orthodoxy. Video of Biden's speech is available on YouTube: The news soon went viral on Chinese social media. More than 30,000 people participated in an online poll by Tencent 5/25/13 from Global Voices Online Read more »

• Tajikistan blocks YouTube without official explanation

  apparently inebriated Rakhmon Sr. singing and dancing. The wedding took place in 2007, but the video only appeared online May 18. YouTube was blocked in Tajikistan for more than two months between July and October last year and again for two weeks from March 5/25/13 from Sify Read more »

• 'Be ye not afraid' of gay marriage

  delivered as New Zealand legalised gay marriage. He is a gay marriage advocate with a place on Ellen DeGeneres's couch and a YouTube hit count that would make Psy jealous. "Be ye not afraid," he said then, quoting the Bible. Today in a news.com.au exclusive, 5/25/13 from Herald Sun Read more »