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For weeks now, teenybopper singing sensation Justin Bieber has been a trending topic on Twitter, which means that he’s one of the most talked about people on the micro-blogging site.

He, or his people, obviously know how to tap into social media. In fact, he was signed by R&B singer Usher after posting videos of him singing on YouTube.

So this 16-year-old, who just opened the new version of We Are The World for Haitian relief is huge. But I’ve hardly been exposed to his music. I think I saw a few seconds of one of his videos when I was passing by MuchMusic. Even that was a fluke, because when the hell does Much even play music these days? (Don’t get me started…)

I’d love to hear from the Justin Bieber fans out there. Where do you hear his music? How has he become so popular when he seems to be flying under a lot of people’s radars? Please drop me a comment below.

Why do I have a nagging suspicion that “Kristen Stewart playing guitar in her panties” will become a top Google search?

The screaming Twihards who think Bella, and by extension Kristen Stewart, is their goddess will soon be going nuts again when the actress plays rock legend Joan Jett in The Runaways which opens on March 19th, 2010.

The film, directed by Floria Sigismondi, also stars Dakota Fanning as one of Jett’s bandmates in the ’70s all-girl rock band The Runaways. You can learn more about the film at runawaysmovie.com or check out the TV spot on YouTube.

The biggest shock of Super Bowl XLIV wasn’t the New Orleans Saints’ come from behind win but a commercial that starred David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey…and Jay Leno. The 15-second spot opens with Letterman saying “this is the worst Super Bowl party ever.” The camera pulls back to reveal Winfrey who admonishes Dave to “be nice.” The punchline? The camera pulls back again to reveal Leno, who says that “he’s just saying that because I’m here” and ends with Dave mimicking him.

How did Letterman manage to get Leno on a commercial for his show? Let’s face it the two haven’t exactly been close since Jay bumped Dave out of winning The Tonight Show 17 years ago. When the whole brouhaha with NBC, Conan and Jay exploded last month, Letterman had fun making tough jabs at Jay’s ambitions and behind the scenes maneuvering and Leno shot back with some stinging barbs about Letterman’s affairs with interns. Part of the reason that Leno and NBC would have agreed to this is that Jay, starting on Oprah’s show, is sort of engaging in an image rehab tour that’s designed to make the audience forget the showbiz ugliness that went down.

When you get right down to it, Letterman and Leno are comedians and the thought of the two arch-rivals watching the big game together is just a damn funny idea. The New York Times has a good story on how the commercial came together.

Now that a judge has signed off on the divorce of Jon and Kate Gosselin can we officially declare their fifteen minutes up and say goodbye to the idiot father and narcissistic harpy mother of the Gosselin 8?

It’s finally here. Today, WINDmobile will be launching its Canadian wireless service and I, for one, can’t wait to see how its plans rate against the established players like Rogers, Telus and Bell.

We’re at the point where even a slight improvement in pricing, plans and service will drive many people to check out this new carrier. Frankly, the wireless situation in Canada sucks right now.

The official launch is later this morning, so we’ll have to wait until then to see the pricing and available phones at WINDmobile.ca

When Paul McCartney was in The Beatles, the four lads from Liverpool played one of the most iconic concerts ever to rock Shea Stadium. When Shea was replaced by Citi Field, it only made sense that the legendary rocker opened it.

And open it he did. Three historic nights rocking a sold out crowd. Songs from The Beatles, Wings and his current works too. And it was all captured on an amazing 2 CD/2 DVD set that I received the other day called Good Evening New York City: Deluxe Edition. If you have anyone on you Xmas list who’s a McCartney fan…or who should be a McCartney fan, you need to get them this present. If you’re a McCartney fan, you need to buy this or leave big hints about it NOW.

The set contains two CDs chock full of Macca’s music. The first DVD contains concert footage shot over the three nights at Citi Field, while the bonus DVD contains the mini-concert from Paul’s performance atop David Letterman’s Marquee and a documentary on Paul’s fans. For me the Letterman mini-concert is worth the price of admission alone. The Citi shows are obviously fantastic, but Paul and the boys just seem so loose and the music so intimate as they perform for people on the streets below.

This CD/DVD combo set is a worthy addition to any music library.

Okay, so Tiger Woods is taking an “indefinite break from professional golf” because after all, there’s a lot of women he hasn’t slept with yet. Or he needs time to find women that won’t talk to the media.

Anyway, what really makes me chuckle is that one of the hottest searches right now according to Google Trends is for the definition of the word “indefinite”. I guess concerned fans with poor vocabularies need to know how long he’ll be gone from the sport.

According to the good folks at Merriam-Webster, indefinite means “not precise, vague, having no exact limits”. So now you know.

The media frenzy around golfer Tiger Woods continues to grow as the number of women claimed — or claiming — to be mistresses has grown to nine.

For those of you keeping track there’s Mindy Lawton, who told her story to the British tabloid News of The World, Rachel Uchitel, the first woman named, Kalika Moquin, a Vegas club manager who denies the allegations, Jaimee Grubbs, from VH1’s Tool Academy, who took her story to Us Weekly, Jamie Jungers, whose mother said she was linked to Tiger, Cori Rist, who’s saying “no comment” after a New York Daily News column. There’s also buzz surrounding porn star Holly Sampson and two as yet unnamed women.

I’m waiting for the headlines that claim Tareq and Michaele Salahi have crashed Tiger Woods bedroom.

Sometimes a news story can have the worst timing. The Zhu Zhu pet hamster, a sort of robotic toy that kids are going crazy for this year, has been faced with safety concerns raised by a San Francisco-based consumer’s group called Good Guide. They contend that one of the toys, Mr. Squiggles to be exact, has higher than acceptable levels of the chemical antimony, which can lead to health problems.

Zhu Zhu’s manufacturer, Cepia LLC, has responded to the allegations saying, in part, that “We are disputing the findings of Good Guide and we are 100% confident that Mr. Squiggles, and all other Zhu Zhu Toys, are safe and compliant with all U.S. and European standards for consumer health and safety in toys.”

Let’s hope this situation is resolved so that the robotic hamsters Pipsqueak, NumNums, Chunk, Squiggles and Patches can be played with this year and then join Cabbage Patch Dolls and Beanie Babies in the land of forgotten fads.

The world “twilf” has been in the urbandictionary for a little while, but it really started to catch people’s interest after the Current TV cartoon show A Stupid Virus referred to former veep candidate Sarah Palin as a TWILF.

What does it mean. Well in polite Twitter company it would probably refer to Tweep I’d Like to Follow. Though “follow” might not be the word we’re looking for. Of course, for Democrats (or thinkers) the “F” might stand for forget.