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McKinney Cheerleaders Fab Five MySpace Page

MSN posted a story on the McKinney Cheerleaders (Fab Five) on their A-List Page. Apparently articles featured on this page are followed by a list of “live search” listings. My Blog was #3 on those listings, resulting in a huge rush of traffic to my blog. On the internet they say content is king, but finding the right content will make you king. Well, that and a huge dose of traffic and notoriety. The point is, for those of you following my blog, I did a short post on spotting trends before they happen, in this instance, it paid off well for me. 

Well.... kind of. Anyone who has lost money quickly on PPC ad campaigns will tell you that conversion rates drop when numbers increase. The trick it to tweak your ad copy to convert better, and to continue to split test and tweak until the well runs dry. Some times, you have no control over the decline, you just have to ride it out. Last Friday as a result of the MSN rush (The A-List effect?) I had over 3,500 people hit my page.  I’m sure you can tell by my Alexa ranking, that was well beyond my conventional traffic numbers. My Adsense ads were relevant to the topic less often that I would’ve liked and I converted around 4% of my leads. Not bad, but not great either. Beleive it or not, Cheerleading photographers don’t pay much for internet advertising. Damn Shame. 

So hidden in this post I had to give you a little morsel of what you were looking for.  Right?

How do we uncover those MySpace photos? The girls identies have been hidden… but the internet often leaves little left to be untraced. If you stuck it out and read through my rant, it will pay off, I promise.

The start. McKinney Texas is a relatively small city, it has 107,530 residents.

The Newsweek story about the girls MySpace page photos quoted…

“The pictures posted on MySpace.com looked like the latest installment of ‘Girls Gone Wild.’ In them, cheerleaders from McKinney North High School in Texas exhibited all variety of bawdy behavior. One shot showed a bikini-clad girl sharing a bottle of booze with a friend. Another featured a cheerleader and several other girls in risqué poses offering glimpses of their panties. But the most infamous photo of all was taken in a Condoms To Go store. Five smiling cheerleaders dressed in uniform posed with large candles shaped like penises. At least one of them appeared to be simulating fellatio. ‘It would be an overstatement to describe any of the photographs as pornographic, but it would be an understatement to describe them as harmless high jinks,’”

The above clip was from a magazine article published in Newsweek on January 2nd of 2007. Here is the full article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/37993/page/1

Get to the point already?!

Okay, so best guess is that the McKinney Cheerleaders ran rampant during the 2006 school year.

Classmates.com (you have all seen the banner ads).

We find all students that graduated between the years of 2005 and 2007:

There are no Therets....Cross referencing photos does reveal a possible match....

There are some cute girls and a few look eerily similar to the girls in the publicized photos. 

(to be continued)

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McKinney Cheerleaders fab five controversy resurfacing

Almost a year and a half ago a story broke about a group of 5 cheerleaders, known as the Fab Five, terrorizing their local school and apparently taking control over the teachers and principal. The principal resigned in shame. The girls: Linda Theret, Michaela Ward, Karissa Theret and several others victimized everyone in their surroundings by committing such atrocities as “talking on their cell phones despite being told not to” and photographing themselves in uniform in a “condom shop.”

The story held little weight when it was first released and was probably laughed off. However, just before the dust settled a Hollywood agent contacted the girls and offered them a contract for their story. Now, after just having enough time for production, perhaps on the brink of the film’s release; the story is coming back as “breaking news” and it’s HOT!

This is definitely a case where truth is stranger than fiction, but did the actions of the “fab 5” really warrant this kind of attention? It sounds like nothing more than your average varsity cheerleading squad. 

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The Elusive G9 and the Impending S6 IS

I have had my heart set on the Canon G9 for quite some time now, but I don’t want to pay full retail ($499.99) at a chain store like Best Buy just to have it.  I have seen it as low as $429.00 (through Dell) and Amazon sold it for quite a while at $449.00.  I never pulled the trigger when I had the chance, but now I don’t regret it. 

I was about to succumb to the fact that I was going to have to pay full price for an electronic device, when I picked up the camera at Best Buy and looked through the view finder.  I always research gadgets to the point of exhaustion before I go out and buy them.  The tools of my trade (and I use that term loosely) are important to me and I’m very picky.  I thought the G9 was the best consumer / prosumer point and shoot camera out there until I actually held it in my hands. I had read on the internet that when you are zoomed out, the viewfinder was obstructed by the lens, but it wasn’t until I looked through it myself that I saw what a pain it was. Ridiculous! I realize the LCD screen is real time and that my old camera didn’t even have a view finder, but I wanted something half way between a dSLR and a typical point and shoot, and the G9 didn’t fulfill this promise.

I love Canon’s picture quality, but the build quality of their consumer and prosumer cameras has never seemed to reach that of a Nikon or Sony.  For example the 30D, 5D and 1D are all beautiful, but the rebel pails in comparison, it’s cheap, plasticy and poorly planned.

So now I guess I’m looking forward to the S6 IS. Hopefully Canon will give us (read me) a solid design in this model with image quality that is just as good if not better than it’s predecessor. 

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