Using Twitter when there's more than one you.

Interesting post over here about using Twitter in the radio biz. I first heard about Twitter a little over a year ago, but I've never opened an account.

The problem as an on-air guy is that I've got two versions of "me." The radio personality and the real-world me. The two aren't mutually exclusive, but nevertheless, I have two identities.

So, which do I use to Twitter or even blog?

I guess I could have one account setup that my station's website could link to, and a separate account that I'd give out to everybody I know (and would like to know). But, do I really have enough content for all that? I would think that for Twitter there would be strange gaps when I switch personalities.

And don't even get me started on Facebook and MySpace. Geez.

Earthquake songs that rock!

A rare earthquake hit my neck of the woods this morning at around 5:30. It was a 5.2 magnitude, followed by a 4.5 aftershock at around 11:15am. Exciting stuff for us midwesterners.

Here's a list of earthquake rock songs that I intend to play today:

"You Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC
"You Shook Me" - Led Zeppelin
"Shake Me" - Cinderella
"Shake it Up" - The Cars
"Shake My Tree" - Coverdale/Page
"Shakedown" - Bob Seger
"Shakedown Street" - Grateful Dead
"Shakin'" - Eddie Money
"Shakin' the Blues" Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies
"Crumblin' Down" John Mellencamp
"Boom Boom Out Go the Lights" Pat Travers

I'm nixing anything with "rock" in the title. That's too easy!

I hope I get some more good suggestions.

Radio Heard Here

The radio biz has a new marketing campaign called "Radio Heard Here." Here's a print ad from the campaign.


I'm not sure what that's supposed to be telling people about radio. I think that's actually a picture of every night jock's fantasy.

I found that pic on the campaign's website. There are a few other pics and a couple of "viral" videos. I don't think you can simply create a video and call it viral. To be viral it actually has to be spread around by some people.

So, here, let me do some spreading! Honestly, the video is pretty good. But, why the hell is it in Quicktime format?! Flash, people. Do these in flash. Make them embeddable. That's how a video becomes viral.

I hope the campaign does some good, but I'm not so sure.

This blogging thing is hard!

I gotta hand it to the bloggers who do this day in and day out, several times a day. I haven't posted in three months. Three months! I just approved a comment on my People's Choice Awards post from three months ago. Thanks whoever you are. Or is it whomever?

I actually thought I'd be blogging every day about something. So...here...I blogged about not blogging.

2008 People's Choice Awards: Is this what the people wanted?!

Did you sit through all 2 hours of the 2008 People's Choice Awards show on CBS? I did. If I hadn't been getting paid to do so, I would have thrown my TV into the street after the first 5 minutes.

I thought I had seen some bad award shows before. I was wrong. This year's PCAs elevated bad to a whole new plane of existence.

Granted, I've never understood the appeal of Queen Latifah. But, man, was she ever a bad choice to host that thing!

The only appealing thing about the whole debacle was the irony of it all. CBS insisted on going through with the telecast in it's new form so that they could stick it to the striking writers. But, nearly every pre-taped acceptance speech voiced support for the strikers!

Somewhere there must be some NBC execs up late tonight rethinking their decision to go ahead with their Golden Globes telecast this weekend. At least, I hope they're rethinking it.