However, with an ever growing amount of information about what people are listening to and sharing online, the question arises of whether this data can be used to help pinpoint the next big smash hit.

FORBES: Using Data To Find The Next Gotye

By the way if you're listening Microsoft, the Engadget answer to the above question is, oh, say 3 or 4.

ENGADGET: Exactly how wireless is the Xbox 2/360 going to get?

If you are listening a moment ago, I forgot Ken Rudin's trivia question today.

NPR: Tracking a New Strain of Drug-Resistant Staph

It seemed, on the Algerian question at least, that the French were no longer listening to Camus.

WSJ: Book Review: Algerian Chronicles

So the question is at what point do folks over there start listening to the people who put them in office?

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s News Conference on Deficit Reduction

And primarily, with that the question comes in, what about the White House message, and what about the fact of listening to the American public?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing