TGI-the-F-F, as they say, as I wrap up this week by staring at a notch waiting to see some crack and writing yet another geeky post in what is by far the geekiest week this blog has ever seen.

Poli-geek analysts from PrezVid to TechPresident are rehashing all the armchair quarterbacking going on about the grassroots YouTube Barack Obama-cum-1984 ad, and it’s starting to look like it was no good in the end for the intendent beneficiary, Obama. Don’t you hate blowback? I do, because that really puts a kink in my plan to make a video montage of a handful of things Sen. Clinton has said on the campaign trail that give me the downright heebie-jeebies, and I’m tired of hearing about “clean and articulate” foibles nine times a day while she’s out there flopping like an Eddie Izzard routine at the Southern Baptist Convention. But apparently it’s still fatal to have your own opinions, put them on the internet, and be associated with a political campaign in any way, so maybe that’s a bad idea. Perhaps in a few more election cycles, when the old guard that missed the whole information revolution retires, a new form of work-life separation can finally take root.

Meanwhile, in Stick It to the Man Land, the podosphere and its related blog brethren tried to “bum rush the charts,” to show the RIAA and its ilk that they need to wrap their minds around independent music and the new media distribution model by driving up an indie band’s song into the top 10 on iTunes. Flatly, it didn’t work, floating the song up to #67 for a while before it disappeared again into obscurity. I bought the damn thing, and it isn’t even that good. So, for those keeping tally, it’s Little Guy: 2, The Man: 7,904,450,621.

And if my impulse purchase of SexyBack had anything to do with the ratings problem, I am truly sorry.

No, I don’t have to explain myself.

Unless it means the difference between a campaign position or not.



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