Web Monitor
15:30 UK time, Wednesday, 20 May 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Web Monitor keeps up-to-date with what's happening on the internet and passes on who said what and where. Make sure you share your best links with us by either sending us a comment via the box to the right of this page or recommending them to us on Delicious where we're called "bbcwebmonitor".
• Photoshopped images of President Obama looking like Dr Spock in Star Trek have been clogging up the internet of late. Now to find out if this comparison is merely cosmetic. It observes:
"Obama is often compared to Spock because he never gets too hot or too cool and speaks in the careful way of a logician. But the president and the fictional character seem to have the same kind of empathy, too."
• Paper Monitor admitted to getting a bit over excited over Autotune the news, featured in yesterday's Web Monitor. PM was inspired to write a song all from this morning's headlines. This looked perfect for . Mentioned on Web Monitor before, Rap Log is a commentary of politics and current affairs in the medium of rap and now they're asking the public to "bless the site" and "spit" about the day's affairs. Paper Monitor got shy at the prospect of performing so we're asking you to perform record and upload to Rap Log the Newpaper Monitor song and let us know when you're done.
• Queen Rania of Jordan is already a dab hand at Facebook and uploading videos onto YouTube. how she's getting along being the only known royal to Twitter:
I've only been tweeting for a week or so, but the Pope's visit got quite a large response. I noticed people were quite interested in this one: @QueenRania : Hoping he cn get both sides 2 recognize their common humanity, then we cn start building frm there."
• YouTube banned a video of a . Only it turns out that the shaky camera film is actually a viral made by Leicester NHS's teenage pregnancy team. Shocking, and back on YouTube for now.
• While promoting his Aids Foundation, that he didn't get the disease:
"I'm a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. I know that when I used to use and drink, that my mind situation was altered completely. Your caution goes out the window and you think, 'Oh, well, we'll gamble, we'll have...' and luckily, I was so lucky enough to not be HIV infected."
• Fifteen-to-one ex-presenter, William G Stewart seems to have a bit of money to spare - he wouldn't mind paying for a licence fee even though he is exempt as he's over 75:
"Why should I, for example, just because I'm 75, not have to pay a licence fee? I could easily afford it, as could thousands of people over 75."
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