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Hello, Dougk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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PS: Your quickness to become a remarkable Wikipedian and edit extensiveness doesn't have much need for a welcome template, but it is nice to start a talk page on a positive note.

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+PS: Your quickness to become a remarkable Wikipedian and edit extensiveness doesn't have much need for a welcome template, but it is nice to start a talk page on a positive note.
-'''Now you are not even allowing me to request the deletion of my own account, and you are vandalizing my own homepages.  Clearly you are harrassing me and preventing a resolution to this situation.  I will ask you politely once and only once to allow me to put back the request for account deletion on MY OWN PAGE.  The contents are below.  I will keep them here for you so you know what I was trying to say which is my right.'''
-The user DougHolton has requested the deletion of this account, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username#DougHolton_-.3E_delete_or_any_random_jibberish
-Control over editing this userpage and the talk page for this user has been taken away from the user.  Thus any content on this page cannot be trusted, may be inaccurate or even defamatory, thus bringing up the possibility of legal ramifications.
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-Weblog on researching and developing educational technology called [http://edtechdev.blogspot.com/ EdTechDev]
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-'''Netwhoring''' refers to when a person or group from popular cultural media, such as TV or movie celebrities or musical bands, uncharacteristically reach out to popular Internet culture or make overt references to such culture in an attempt to gain more popularity.
-Netwhoring as a label may connotate a slightly [[pejorative]] meaning, yet most fans appear overall to appreciate these gestures towards Internet culture.
-== Examples ==
-Some recent examples include:
-* Of course many political figures in the U.S. and other countries have been using the Internet to gain more votes.  Most famously, [[Howard Dean]] during his 2004 U.S. presidential campaign gave rise to a large grassroots movement via websites, email lists, discussion boards and weblogs.
-* The creators of the animated [[South Park]] series aired an episode in October, 2006 entitled [[Make Love, Not Warcraft]], in which the main characters were in a plot involving the popular [[MMORPG]] game [[World of Warcraft]].
-* Also in October 2006, [[Duran Duran]] created virtual avatars for each member of the band in the 3D multiuser online world [[Second Life]] and performed virtual online concerts.  They are calling themselves the first band to become citizens of Second Life. <ref>{{cite web | url = http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/music_nm/duranduran_dc_1 | title = Duran Duran finds new "Life" in reality game | author = Lars Brandle | date = [[2006-10-10]] | accessdate = 2006-10-24 | work = [[Yahoo! News]] }}</ref>
-* The musical satirist [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] released online the video for a single entitled "[[White And Nerdy]]" on September 26th, 2006, that makes numerous references to web and programming culture, including [[Wikipedia]] itself.  The video was actually leaked on [[Myspace]] and [[Youtube]] earlier than Weird Al had planned, but it became a very popular net phenomenon.  This is an example of netwhoring that is likely not considered pejoratively by anyone, given Weird Al's previous history and references to related "geeky" and "nerdy" things in culture.
-* [[Stephen Colbert]] in 2006 has made overt references to the Internet such as with his coinage of the [[neologism]] [[Wikiality]], in addition to informing viewers to sites where they could vote to name things such as bridges or team mascots after himself.
-== Popular Vehicles for Netwhoring ==
-Celebrities are releasing videos on [[Youtube]] and doing interviews or concerts in [[Second Life]], for example.  Other vehicles for such netwhoring include:
-* [[Youtube]]
-* [[Second Life]]
-* [[Myspace]]
-* [[Wikipedia]]
-== References ==
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-== Related Terminology and Phenomena ==
-* [[Wikipedia in popular culture]]
-* [[Karma (Slashdot)|Karma whoring]] on websites such as [[Slashdot]]. This is not done by celebrities but rather regular users of the site.
-* The expression "ratings whore" is sometimes applied to the producers behind the uncharacteristic or otherwise attention grabbing things seen on television shows and networks, especially during months when [[Nielsen Ratings]] are being taken.
-* Some celebrities whose popularity has faded have appeared on recent TV reality shows such as [[The Surreal Life]], partly as an effort to reinvigorate their careers.
-* TV networks are embracing the reach from TV pop culture to net culture by releasing shows for free on places like [[ITunes]].  Shows and music videos are also appearing in more regularity on sites like [[Youtube]] and [[Myspace]].