So much for the free Aqua Dots ...

Now I'll never get to be on Evil's speed dial; thanks, Rachel -- but, seriously, thanks


Progress is a slow process, but someone out there is reading this blog -- though I didn't think it would be a Burson-Marsteller watchdog group -- an audience is an audience.

Looks like I'll need some image consultation to get back in Burson's good graces. So ... now would be a good time to call Burson-Marsteller so I -- they -- can spin this post about themselves to themselves.

Tweeting Made Easy: We Follow

Per T.I.'s suggestion: "They don't know which way to go/I'll make it easy follow me." Twitter launched a site rendering "I have a Twitter, but I don't know what to do with it now that I'm there," a thing of the past. We follow is a "user powered Twitter directory," -- a Twitter search engine, of sorts, using hashtags as keywords to find and follow fellow Tweeters of a feather.

To add yourself to the directory enable/follow @hashtags, then tweet @wefollow three 1 word tags that describe you/your twitter page (i.e. @wefollow #blogger #music #dc) ... it's just that easy!


Obviously the big tags at the mo are (in very particular order) celebrity, music, tech, news -- and yes this is an apt reflection on priorities within the Twitter community.

After a winded round-the-world "Twitter is no threat to G" lecture series, Google is resting its voice and opting to Tweet instead of talk for the time being ... If you can't beat em, define yourself in three tags or less and enter the directory like everyone else ...


Speaking of Twitter -- which is becoming the modern day equivalent of "How's the weather?" -- I'll make it easy ... for you to follow me.

Watch this space: Old man Google's Tweets are speaking louder than his words -- for Twitter to be such a non-threat, We Follow got the leader to G Follow pretty quickly

"Anti-Journalism" 101

Journalists need the work, educators need the break, and students need the media literacy training.



Educators have been teaching students how to read and write what is printed for centuries. Now, in a time of unparalleled transition, ex-journalists are re-entering the classroom to teach students how to read what is in between the print -- and in between the blurred lines of news/entertainment. News literacy is increasingly important in social and personal development -- with more time being spent in front of a television or computer screen over textbooks. Where "the media" is replacing teachers, textbooks, and tutors; former media professionals are becoming teachers and tutors, explaining how to decipher through the tech-books of mainstream news/entertainment.

Some say we are drowning in information and starving for knowledge -- I conquer. However, initiatives like this one at Stony Brook set blueprints for a new media that aims to inform -- not inundate.

Watch this space: more to come ...

iDaft.com: MCPD 1000 - Music Production 2.0 (Sampling Methods)

Kanye University is hoping to rise through the U.S. News & World Report "Liberal Arts" college rankings by introducing an entree of innovative courses over the next few semesters. The first of which -- Music Production 2.0 (Sampling Methods) -- takes a hands-on approach to teaching its students the art of sampling, in a way only Kan the Louis Vuitton Don could.


Using iDaft, professors literally put the power of production right in the palms of their pupils.

Students mix, mash, chop, screw, smother, scatter, and cover vocal stems from Daft Punk's Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger. The end result could be something completely -- kind of -- original or just a tweak of Kanye's stab at the electro-classic.

Word around the rumor mill is that the scholar assembling the best product gets contracted for an official remix on Ye's next album: Twelfth of Nevuary. But wait there's more! -- Because the rumor mill never stops churning -- some would-slash-have say-slash-said next semester's course will be more streamlined, some might say ... Aerodynamic?

The good news is you don't have to be enrolled in KU to take advantage of the learning tools. You too can be a Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger uberproducer -- which is the rough equivalent to "half-as-good-as-Kanye-thinks-he-is" or "twice-as-good-as-people-give-him-credit-for."

Kanye University is accepting applications for the Fall 2009 semester on a rolling deadline. So take your time, prep your portfolio, and drive slow.

Distriction: Coming coming ... back back ... to DC DC

Short stint in Atlanta sadly coming to a close, but we all knew the return was imminent ...



While I'm Mid-Air, a little something to get the DC mode going for the rest of you: Distriction: City Soul

See you on the other side.

Mode: on

Bristol Palin: Why ya buggin?!

Oh. Right. The whole "my-mom-ran-for-vice-president-and-lost-and-all-i-got-was-this-baby-and-pending-child-support" thing ...


When life gives you lemons Bristol ... ask, "In what respect, Charlie?" ... then pass the baby to your little sister for grooming, and pre-game for the heli-hunt. By the looks of the new and improved lil' Miss Palin -- talking Pro-Choice, using logic, ending up on Keith Olbermann and not as the embodiment of evil -- it might be your last hunt.

Two thumbs fresh for Bristol. Her mom may not know politics, and I ain't sayin' she a gold digger, but Bristol knows Deepthroat: "Follow the money."

Levi Johnson: Levi's jeans and Johnson & Johnson?! oh ... he's broke. Figures, after all, Johnson & Johnson is "a family company," while Levi is on "Federline company" kind of time.

Well, either way, I don't know what 20% of zero is but after carrying ones and working out remainders Bristol is bound to be ... on the receiving end of the stimulus package -- doesn't seem so silly now, does it?

Watch this space: Bristol might be the one to pull through ... who knows she might even be able to name a magazine she reads

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Oh those pesky boys and girls ... always begging to seek amy

At long last -- for those who cared, namely: troubled persons named amy, angry radio producers, myself -- Britney Spears' new video for "If U Seek Amy" dropped today ...


American Beauty + Britney Spears + Pies + Kate Trask + Funhouse/Madhouse + Mad Men + Justify My Love + June Cleaver = "If U Seek Amy"



And, yes, after watching the video ... "All of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek amy"

Oh and for the record: double points for pop culture and puns -- because "begging to if you seek amy" is grammatically incorrect, but quite clever ... triple points if you include the politics behind radio censorship ...

watch this space: apb/amber alert on last name: amy-dammit, first name: seek me, middle initials: i.m.