Web Monitor
15:54 UK time, Monday, 11 May 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
We trawl the web to give you the most interesting bits. 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 it to us on - we're called "bbcwebmonitor".
• To start off, we're following up Paper Monitor's observation that the swine flu outbreak shed some light on where the mediarati chose to school their children. The private Alleyn's School in Dulwich, south London, featured in first-hand accounts byt journalists about their child's school being closed after a swine flu outbreak. Now we can unexclusively reveal that we know what the kids from swine flu school are getting up to and it's not hanging around on street corners wearing hoodies, even in an ironic way. Harry Houseago, a 13-year-old from Alleyn's school used his to write, perform and stick up on YouTube .
• Richard Branson has taken over Mia Farrow's fast for Darfur. He's posted a video on . that he will continue until someone else takes over and he named Peter Gabriel as his possible successor. Web monitor doesn't know whether Gabriel's been consulted.
• Doing well on the viral video chart is the comedian at the White House correspondents' dinner this weekend. In her 15-minute speech, Sykes said the Obamas should have reconsidered their gift of an i-Pod to the Queen:
"You should have given the Queen a memento of our country, something that says America - give her Texas."
• Magician a fee for appearances. He says he's getting his side of the story across as the Daily Mirror is writing a story on him being paid for charity appearances. Daniels says he does it to cover his costs. On one occasion, a charity commitment meant he missed out on another job that was later offered to him, worth £40,000. You could call that an expensive disappearing act.
• Web Monitor is surprised to hear from , one of the plethora of Hollywood gossip blogs, that "Mr Methane is really famous in Britain." Mr who? Since Susan Boyle soared through the YouTube viewing figures celebrity bloggers in the US have been following Britain's Got Talent relentlessly. After his performance on the talent show this weekend, is being spread amongst the blogosphere like a bad smell.
• Tom Hanks has been doing the rounds promoting his new film Angels and Demons. On working with Ewan McGregor, :
"The British school - Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Guildhall Drama school. And the American School - Bosom Buddies and the Oscar Mayer Weiner Movie are going head to head in a battle royale of acting backgrounds."
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