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On November 24, 2009 in Crenshaw, California, Jermaine Jackson, Louis Gossett, Jr., and numerous VIP cast members from This Is It including Michael Bearden, Jonathan Moffett, Tommy Organ, Ken Stacey and Judith Hill attended the Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait event in association with Maryum “May May” Ali and the organization, FAMILI, Inc., (a nonprofit after school enrichment/mentoring program). The director is Torre Reese, and May May Ali worked with Reese to bring the students to the event.
Sixty children from inner city schools walked the red carpet with Jermaine Jackson and VIP cast members from This Is It and watched a special screening of the film at the Magic Johnson Theatre for Michael Jackson for the charity event in celebration of the tribute portrait. Jermaine Jackson’s speech was uplifting and powerful.
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Bing and Yahoo have already released their lists of the most popular search terms of 2009, and now it’s time for the undisputed, heavyweight champion of search — Google, in the red trunks — to announce its rundown.
In their annual Zeitgeist report, Google crowns “Michael Jackson” as the fastest rising search term, followed by “Facebook” in second place and “Twitter” in fourth, with Spanish Facebook “Tuenti” coming in third.
As far as the fastest falling search terms go, unsurprisingly the heaviest hitters of old, such as “Euro 2008″ and “Beijing 2008,” have decreased in relevance, and certain Internet giants, such as Beboand eMule, have obviously lost their luster.
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6/26/2009 02:39:00 PM
At Google, we are moved by the life and untimely passing of Michael Jackson. As word spread of his death, millions and millions of people from all over the world began searching for information about the pop icon. The following chart shows the meteoric rise in related searches around 3:00pm PDT:
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A Timeline of How News of Michael Jackson’s Death Traveled Across the Internet
19:21 - One of Michael Jackson’s employee’s calls 911
The next forty-nine minutes are best described as the calm before the storm. The Los Angles Fire Department arrived at Jackson’s rented mansion in Bel Air and family members were alerted of the news.
20:10 – (Story Breaks) A small entertainment site called x17online.com breaks the story.
They post photos and a brief story a full 20 minutes before the much larger entertainment site TMZ.com posts the news. Information goes live on the internet. BOOM!
20:30 - TMZ.com posts “Michael Jackson — Cardiac Arrest”
TMZ.com posts the story on its homepage and the story is distributed to hundreds of thousands of people via RSS. My guess is they paid a pretty penny for the image above and it paid for itself ten fold with all of the links TMZ got from the story.
21:12 - Wikipedia reports Jackson’s Cardiac Arrest
A member of Wikipedia adds the news of the Cardiac Arrest to Jackson’s Wikipedia article. This is well before any other news or social media source.
21:20 - TMZ.com posts story of death
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While other blogs were reporting that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital with serious problems, Perez Hilton gained more enemies when he ignorantly posted the below on his website before verifying info.
“Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!
Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!
His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!
We are dubious!!
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