However, the Lin story does illustrate how the news is becoming the news, how trends and trending are now the story.

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It's been far higher under Bush but is now trending down.

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The NEM charts are scarily bearish: on the daily it continues to trade below both significant moving averages with the 50-day now trending down below the 200-day.

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Market studies are now trending tweets.

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The Social Network is now a promoted trending topic on the website.

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If you looked at the trending topics on Twitter worldwide right now, you might do a double take.

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Predicting the future of Twitter's trending topics is, as of right now, an impossibility.

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At least this BCS game added to the trending Glory Years of Alabama, its players, its now legendary coach, and the SEC.

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Now, Swype Living Language allows people who opt-in to share and receive trending words and phrases in real-time, creating an up-to-date, crowd-sourced language model.

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Right now, Luciano says prices in the equity market have yet to stabilize, and are still trending downward.

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