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While destroymyvirtualboy is one of my first forays into viral marketing, there are many people who are much better at it than me. I think mostly this has to do with the fact that they can reach a larger audience to begin with, and I’m stuck with random MySpace invites and forums threads to garnish my attention.

For the purposes of this next paragraph, I will assume you have seen ok go - a million ways’s music video. Ok go is having a contest for the best video cover of the music video. Frankly, it is an amazing idea, and has already yielded me many minutes of entertainment. Not only that, I am now seriously considering purchasing ok go’s album. Man, and in all that they gave away some of the rights to their song by encouraging people to go make something with it. Fancy that!

Rocketboom was supposed to release their first regular new episode in two weeks today. Their host quit/wasfired, and there hasn’t been any new content. Humorously, after announcing all weekend the new episode would be here Monday, the new episode was not here. It has been delayed. I find it astounding that a low budget production isn’t able to switch gears quickly after losing their host. Isn’t that what new media is all about? All you need is a MiniDV cam and you have a show.

For the purposes of this next paragraph, I will assume you don’t mind if I completely shift gears. I woke up this morning to find my UConn Huskies big-foam-paw-you-put-over-your-hand-and-cheer-with-thing ripped to pieces of my floor. I assumed it fell from my bookshelf and my dog got to it, but the pieces were not really dog-bite shaped, nor were there teeth marks, and they were all close together on the floor. To add further to the mystery, my clay sun-face I made in 7th grade was missing from my wall. I was pretty worried I was going to find it in pieces, but it was on my desk safe and sound. Neither of my parents came into my room this morning, and my brother is a state away.