Aaron Landry

After SXSW suddenly everyone’s talking about Twitter. It’s your new 140 character-per-post instablog from your phone, AIM or webbernet. Still not on it? Join up and add me. You, like everyone else who’s not on it might be asking yourself, “Why would I care what people are doing? Why would anyone care what I post?” Well here’s a take on it: Just post what you think someone else might find interesting and don’t post the stuff nobody cares about. It took me a while to figure that simple idea out. It’s a great way to keep in contact and it’s a fabulous service for those who make last-minute plans. You can always “leave” people you don’t want to get updates on your phone from without un-friending them. The way Twitter is going, it very well be more widely used than MySpace in less than two years. Check out twittervision for a geographical look at live data coming into Twitter.

I’m in an upcoming today’s Chasing Windmills episode again… likely popping up this week. I think I’ll be in the next episode as well. It was a long shoot on Sunday but a lot of fun. Stopped by The Bulldog NE afterwards with Amber, Jen and Rich and for the most part talked about bloggers. There’s a Chasing Windmills season wrap-up party at the Kitty Cat Klub at 8pm Thursday. As Jeremy paraphrases, “if the building blows up, it’ll be the end of Minneapolis blogging.” Come on down. Some of the real actors will be signing autographs amongst other things.

After the Chasing Windmills shoot and Bulldog on Sunday, I got a dancing part on the craziest thing on television, Call-In Karaoke. The premise of the show is that people in Minneapolis call in and are able to sing a song on live television over the phone. Karaoke Revolution serves up the songs, keeps a meaningless score and displays an animated version of the person singing and an audience on the screen. Meanwhile, Hamil Griffin-Cassidy hosts the show with chroma key to make sure people get their song set up and whatnot. During the singing, Hamil takes his microphone off the set and people dance on top of the game to distract the caller. It’s quite bizarre. This week’s episode took it a notch weirder: the people dancing were dancing live on top of a previously recorded episode that was already danced upon. Taylor and I were wrestlers for the most part. Amazingly crazy television. You can watch the whole thing on Google Video.