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The Freak-Out Flight Attendant's Internet Moment: Facebook Fan Page, Ballads on YouTube and, Yes, a Taiwanesed Treatment!

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

BoomTown has not been much of a fan of Facebook fan pages, finding most of them sterile affairs with empty marketing messages and little in the way of real life. But things are actually hopping if you click over to the one created for JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, who went loco after an encounter with a belligerent passenger, opened the emergency inflatable slide and got out of Dodge.

The Last Susan Boyle Post, I Promise–But It Turns Out She Can Cry a Digital River

Kara Swisher in News on April 20, 2009 at 2:00 pm PT

The Internet sensation that is Susan Boyle just keeps getting better. The Daily Record in Scotland uncovered a 10-year-old recording that the 47-year-old woman made for a charity CD. Singing the classic blues ballad, “Cry Me a River,” Boyle more than proves she has the range of the truly gifted artist (not to mention emotional depths that seem endless here) she displayed recently on a British television talent show, which has turned her into a viral Web celebrity.