I want my M. Teeeeee. Veeeeeeeeeeee!

Okay, so I can’t sing the song very well. Who cares? This is pretty big news, and it’s an awesome opportunity for someone out there. MTV wants to hire what they are calling (for now) a Twitter Jockey. The company plans to pay 100 THOUSAND dollars to the person selected to fill this all-important role. After witnessing how the Twitter network blows up every time something “big” happens on the network, the powers-that-be decided they needed someone to handle this flow of traffic on a permanent basis.

The winner of this contest will hold the position of MTV TJ. They’ll get to attend red carpet events, mingle with celebrities, spend their days tweeting and bring home a very sweet paycheck. 18 finalists have already been chosen to compete, but it’s not too late for you to throw your hat in the ring. You’ll need to “Like” the ZYNC from American Express Page on Facebook. After you have done that, you’ll be able to nominate anyone on Twitter for this promotion – including yourself.

If you plan to enter – good luck to you!

• Starbucks will offer free Wi-Fi beginning July 1st.
• Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.
• Do you have troubles getting Safari to load at times?
• The Boxee Box by D-Link looks great. Where is the content, though?
• Do you prefer classroom or online learning?
• Where do you download fonts from?
• What types of technology do you feel will be obsolete in ten years?
• Are you a Straight Talk customer?
• Are you going to purchase the new Xbox 360?
• How will virtual reality shape our lives in the future?
• What is the worst computer glitch you’ve ever experienced?
• Will HP, Dell and Acer be the first to get the Google Chromium OS?
• Do background images on search engines even matter?
• What type of forum software do you like to use?
• Do you feel Apple *should* adopt Flash on their products?
• How long should you charge an iPad battery for the first time?
• Can you tether your iPhone to Ubuntu?
• Which are your favorite Ning sites?
• Are you a Stephen King fan?
• Getting your local weather via Twitter is a marriage made in Heaven.
• An AT&T security hole exposed over 140,000 email addresses to hackers.
• Is healthcare a “right?”
• Yahoo and Ask are great fallback search engines.
• Google pushes forward with local tags.
• It’s official: Project Natal is now known as Kinect.
• How do you keep track of your billable hours?

You don’t have to enter any contests in order to get the latest software and apps for all of your devices.

MTV Wants a Twitter Jockey – It Might as Well be You!

Hey, Napster? Thanks for making it an absolute pain in the ass to cancel our account – yet another reason to abandon your service. I had to call a phone number to tell you that I wanted to quit. Why?

• MTV’s new URGE service is far less problematic. Far less.
• I really like the Clix, and URGE works better with it.
• Napster’s software continues to suck.
• You made me call a number to cancel service. I hate that. Really.
• URGE is the future, Napster is still living in the past.

Windows Media Player 1l… is still far from impressive. Don’t swallow the hype when you see it, please? WMP11 is better than WMP10 – but “less crappy” is not an honorable benchmark. They continue to ignore user interface inconsistencies and feedback from Windows Media’s most ardent supporters – including MVPs, who were seemingly marginalized during 11′s development process.

Cancel Napster

So, I’m getting ready for a trip to Colorado Springs for my future brother-in-law’s nuptuals. I figured I’d give the Clix a shot with Urge. I fire up the Windows Media Player and… blammo:

“Your Windows Media DRM is Corrupted.” *sigh* I love DRM. It’s awesome. DRM is teh shiz. I want to make love to DRM, it’s so sexy. DRM is the ultimate. Give me more DRM. I want to spread DRM on my toast in the morning. I need DRM in my life.

Windows Media DRM is Corrupted

I’m not the first (and I certainly won’t be the last) person to claim that DRM sucks. But DRM doesn’t stand for “Digital Rights Management.” No, it’s really an acronym for “Dramatic Resource Mangler.” Here’s the problem I’m now running into: I’ve currently got a subscription to Napster, a trial account with Rhapsody, and another trial account with MTV’s URGE. That’s three separate subscriptions I’ve got floating across all my systems. Now, I’ve already downloaded Pearl Jam’s new album through Napster. I can’t listen to it in either Rhapsody or URGE. I’ve paid for it already! So, let’s say I turn off Napster and switch to URGE. I’d have to download the album again. What’s more, Windows Media Player / Windows Explorer doesn’t tell me where the album came from – I have to guess. I have to play (by trial and error) to see which albums are supported by which service. THIS IS MADNESS! Why can’t the individual file detect which service I’m paying for and then adjust itself accordingly? Why must I maintain three DRM’ed versions of the same song?

Screw Napster. Screw Rhapsody. Screw URGE. I’ll pay for one of ‘em and then find the album in a non-DRM’ed WMA or MP3 format elsewhere. I’m trying to play by the rules here, folks. I’m trying to give them my money. They’re not making this easier – they’re making it infinitely more difficult. DRM can kiss my ass.

Why DRM Sucks