The Buzz Weekend Recap
Monday, March 30, 2009by Jon Brooks
March 29, 2009 09:43:52 PM
This weekend, people turn off their lights when they don't really feel like it, a sexy hamburger commercial has people clicking, and the World Figure Skating Championships draws a lot of online attention. Just a few of the most popular stories the past couple of days in Yahoo! Buzz ...
Lights out
OK everyone, what were you doing Saturday night from 8:30 to 9:30 pm? Well, the buzz is that if you were home you probably sat around with the lights low, doing your bit for Earth Hour 2009 (or at least thinking about doing it). People in 88 countries in every time zone turned off or lowered their lights for one hour Saturday, an event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund as part of a campaign to highlight the threat from global warming. Clicks on articles related to the great dim-out were frequent all weekend, and searches across the Yahoo! network were also high. Interestingly enough, 60% of queries came from females, just 40% from males. Meaning ...what? Nope, not going there.
