“57% of senior executives in the media and entertainment industries view user-generated content as one of the top three challenges they face today. Filmed on April 19, 2008 at Podcamp DC, I interview several media makers from organizations as diverse as NPR, Porter Novelli, CNN, Harris Teeters, etc., who are creating their own content for their own niches on their own time, and foresee a future that will make traditional media obsolete.”

In a game touted as the biggest fad since “robo tripping” in the early 90’s, the broom game, made popular by Ellen DeGeneres and now adopted by Ze Frank and his so-called “Color Wars”, are causing dizziness, bruises, contusions, and vomiting all over the world.

Yesterday, in Lincoln, Nebraska a group of Twitterers (members of the now popular social networking site Twitter.com) varying in age from 14 to 42 were attempting to make a video for Frank’s Color Wars when 3 of the broom game contestants took out a number of bystanders, the camera operator/commentator, and Grammie. 12 were injured in the onslaught. None of those involved wished to be identified.

One twitterer, who only wished to be referred to as @anonymous stated, “It was one thing to have to put up with all the colored icons, and GO TEAM BURNT SIENNA’s - but this is just senseless. When will the madness stop!”

Families of the victims are holding a candle light vigil tonight donning all black and white in protest of the Color Wars.

Jenifer Bolton, daughter of one of the victims mournfully avowed, “Mr. Frank, you’ve driven our children from our homes brooms in hand. They spin until they’re dizzy with delight, until they fall down, or until someone gets hurt. We won’t stand for this! The broom game, these wars MUST STOP! Or at least, umm, you know make it 5 spins or something.”

A child watching the interview with Ms. Bolton shouted “Why did Grammie have to die!” Grammie, in fact, did not die - but she did apparently suffer a broken hip.

What will come of these wars? No good I’m sure. We’ll just have to stay tuned and see how many others must fall before Frank’s brightly blazoned battle is brought to a screeching halt. Crayola denies involvement. Frank was not available for comment.

Full Text Here.
Stop The Color War Group on Facebook can be found here.

And if you’re really itching to check out the remix I completed the morning after - here it is. The Remix Is Here
Start Rediculousness
A wella wella -
Mc Scott aint frontin, nerd rapper huntin
i’m hittin that shit - while you lookin for the button
Your fake like spam, and im hot like bacon
I’m the master mc youre a failure in the makin’
I’m on version 27 you’re still rollin in beta.
I’m geekier than screech, but i’m tougha’ than slata’
id be in prison if Pwnin u was a crime
autobots rollout - im tough like optimus prime

I’m slick with the coding like im slick with the ladies
I was getting laid on BBS’ back in the 80’s
I might be white like the bread, but im hotter than hades
i slam like a hammer and i flow like euphrates

ill mac your girl like the kirk,i’ll knock you out like the spock,
i’ll post the picshas up on flickr because thats how i rock

im representin’ for blue - givin the epic F U
im rappin n and im geeking because thats what i do
all you aspiring nerd rappers might have the best of intentions
but I’ve got more rhymes than chris brogans got questions…

So yeah, I’ve been doing some serious booking for Jonny’s Par-tay as of late - and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Last we had on one of my favorite bloggers (Julia Roy), and all in the same hot minute, Evan Blaustein, the CEO of one of my favorite geeky products: Mimobots.

This week (Wed. April 9th @9pm EST) we are having on someone that has more balls in the air than anyone I know in tech-geek-blogger land. Let me introduce you to Doctor Popular.

I learned of Doc Pop from an interview that Zadi Diaz did with him a while back on JetSet (now Epic-Fu). You can watch that interview here. In his own words (rapping of course), “I’m a comedy writer, a comics illustrator, a yo-yo pro, and a mouth harp afficianado…”. And this doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. In his spare time, Doctor Popular runs an Etsy store where he hosts items from hand-made wallets and coffee cozies to i-phone cases (made of denim scraps and other materials) and hand drawn comics. He makes yo-yo’s (he’s the third place world yo-yo’ing champ). He’s a tailor and clothing designer. And most important - to this week’s show at least - he’s one hell of a Nerdcore Rapper.

Doc Pop joins us on the Par-tay to set us straight about his new album “Me Geek Pretty One Day“. I have only three words to describe it…”meow, meow, motherf***3r.” With songs of caution like LoLCats, a rap battle with MC Stephen Hawking “you’ve got a 3 digit I.Q…if you use binary. Ohhh.”, and a song about Gygax “a gaming goliath” - Doc Pop keeps it geeky. He gets a little down and dirty with “twisted cherry stems”, and lays down some great beats on “les mis”, “level 2″, and “geekandsay”. Seriously, check it out. Still not sure it’s for you? Well, check out Doc Pop April 09th @9pm on Jonny’s Par-tay for a special live performance, an insiders look at the life of an artist, and the usual shenanigans you’ve come to expect from Jonny and me. Hope to see you there!

P.S. Travis Morrison Hellfighters are all on twitter. Check it out over at www.travismorrison.com.
Or simply follow Travis here.

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Local boy, John Vanderslice, opened up with his own brand of political-pop-indie-rock - giving shout outs to his mom between songs, and ending his set with a not-really-visible-or-audible-to-anyone-but-the-20-folks-around-him-acoustic-jam on the floor. A novel idea - and I’m sure a pleasure for those in the cirlce, but frustrating for the rest of the crowd.

You can listen to this show in its entirity at NPR’s website.

Here is the video I captured, shot from the upper level with my Casio Exilim. I’m continuing to experiment with this nifty little camera. Not so great in low light levels, audio not so hot.

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