What Will We Remember About Michael Jackson?
What Will We Remember About Michael Jackson?
Michael Jackson, well where do you start, one thing is sure I am not the only person to have written about him over the last few days.
On the announcement of his death people rushed, not to his Neverland Ranch, or some other commemorative spot to show their outpouring of grief but rather flocked to the modern outlet of public opinion, the Internet.
Within a couple of hours of his death Google staff apparently went into a panic in the belief that the giant search engine was under some kind of attack as their traffic figures spiralled out of control, and seven out of the top 10 search terms involved the words Michael Jackson, the same was true on Twitter where 5000 messages were being posted every single minute that also included his name.
On the surface this does seem like a strange reaction as it would seem prior to even a
