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To no one’s surprise, Mitt Romney pledged his support to John McCain yesterday. Romney’s 286 delegates are not obligated to swing to McCain, but the majority most likely will. This puts McCain only a few delegates away from clinching the nomination. It was expected that Romney would eventually support McCain, especially since his given reason for suspending his own campaign was to repair splits in the Republican Party and prepare for a full assault on the Democrats in November. Mike Huckabee still sees things differently and continues in the race, in spite of increasing pressure, and even ridicule, from the media.

On Tuesday, the GOP has 40 delegates that are up for grabs in Wisconsin, then a total of 274 delegates will be awarded one way or another on March 4th. That’s the day that Ohio and Texas (also Rhode Island and Vermont) go to the polls. If McCain takes it all, the race is decided on the GOP side. Even if Huckabee takes Texas as he plans, McCain could still reach the magic number of 1,191.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has stepped-up her attacks on Barack Obama, in an attempt to stop the ‘bleeding away’ of delegates and support for her campaign. With Obama on a roll, even Super Delegates formerly pledged to Clinton are switching allegiance to the Obama camp. The caucus in Hawaii and primary in Wisconsin on Tuesday means 111 delegates are at stake. Then the big numbers in Ohio and Texas on March 4th will decide whether Obama or Clinton will leap forward toward the nomination. Of course, the Dems have to know that nothing will be finally decided until all of those Super Delegates are heard from. Then there is the little matter of the Michigan and Florida delegates being reinstated - or not!

Well, it looks like the march to the White House continues on and on and on.

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Today at Gnomedex Robert Scoble was able to get a sneak peek of CollectiveX’s new features and from the video you can tell he loves CollectiveX too. You might remember we interviewed CollectiveX’s CEO, Clarence Wooten, back in April where we spoke about CollectiveX and he shared some tips on running a successful start-up. In the new release you can expect to see some cool ways to use widgets on and off your Groupsite, easy ways to integrate feeds into your Groupsite, and the ability to monetize your Groupsite. You can see more of what to expect from CollectiveX’s new release in the video below:

As a side note if you aren’t familiar with Gnomedex, it is a Tech Conference held in Seattle that brings in the best and brightest influencers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts. You can follow the happenings on Twitter at @gnomedex. CollectiveX will launch its’ new features on September 3rd. Also, don’t forget that Black Web 2.0 has a Groupsite as well, if you haven’t joined yet you can here.

TSN is reporting that Fabian Brunnstrom has decided to sign with the Dallas Stars for two seasons, Fabian preferred the Stars over the Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, and the Toronto Maple Leafs who were all the front runners in the Brunnstrom sweepstakes.

Yes finally, the media circus which has been Brunnstrom is over. Thank God! For the past several weeks, Brunnstrom has been everywhere, just recently in Montreal. Fabian was going to some teams arenas to see which team was better suited to his playing style.

Excuse me Mr. Brunnstrom, but where did you come from? How come you aren’t showcasing your talent at the worlds for your country?

Seemingly not many people have seen Brunnstrom play, even the best scouts are not that aware of his true talent, which is why he wasn’t drafted in the first place.

Brunnstrom could be a good player in the NHL, he has decent size, from what scouts have said, he has NHL speed, and skill, question is, why isn’t he playing for his country, and showing everyone what he can do on an NHL size rink?

Many players have played for the NHL who weren’t drafted, or drafted in the 200 range and fared well, but not many people can boast that they know this Brunnstrom kid. Why did he only achieve the possibility of playing for the Swedish Elite league so late in his career.

Hopefully for the Stars, Brunnstrom will be a good player, he seems to have a head on his shoulders, I just want to see what he will do with the physicality of the NHL. Perhaps he will prosper, and become even better than some scouts say he is.

Good luck Brunnstrom, let’s hope that you haven’t bit off more than you can chew, time will tell. For every one who endured the Brunnstrom saga over the last few weeks, it’s over, now let’s see if Fabian lives up to the hype!

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This installment of Lazy Barbecue is all about beef ribs. Now, I love a good rack of baby back ribs, and it’s no secret that I love me some beef short ribs (see here, here, here, here, and here). I’ve even written about making Cook’s Illustrated’s Texas-Style BBQ Beef Ribs, but this version is a little easier.

I did these ribs two different ways. One batch was kept in slab form and cooked for around six hours. The end result was fall-off-the-bone ribs, which tasted great, but I wanted ribs with a firmer texture. The ribs were so tender that it was actually a challenge to keep the slab intact for this picture.

The second batch of ribs I tried were cut into individual pieces and cooked for only three hours. These ribs were great because they were the exact texture that I wanted, and it allowed me to pick up the rib and eat it right off the bone.

The constants with both batches of ribs were applying Texas Best Barbecue Spice Rub to the ribs before curing them overnight in the refrigerator, the cooking temperature (225F), and basting them with Texas Best Barbecue Sauce about 30 min before taking them out of the oven. You can use any rub and sauce you want, but if you can get your hands on the Texas Best rub or sauce, it’ll feel a little more “real” won’t it?

When you’re at the store looking for ribs, you want to find beef back ribs that look like this:

Picture from Nimanranch.com.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether you want to do the slab or the individual ribs, but I like cutting up the slabs because you can get a nice crust on all sides of each rib.

INGREDIENTS
Your favorite barbecue spice rub
Your favorite barbecue sauce
1 slab beef back ribs

1. Sprinkle rub on ribs and refrigerator uncovered overnight
2. 1 hour before cooking, remove ribs from fridge and wrap in foil. You can also put the ribs on a cooling rack set over a foil-lined cookie sheet.
3. Preheat oven to 225F.
4. Cook ribs for at least three hours for firmer ribs and more than five hours for fall-off-the-bone ribs.
5. 30 minutes before removing from oven, open up foil and baste ribs in your favorite BBQ sauce. Finish cooking uncovered.

NOTES

• You can buy Texas Best Barbecue Sauce and Rub direct from their Web site.
• For a smokier flavor, try rubbing the ribs with a little liquid smoke before applying the rub.

Writer’s block.

It sounds pathetic in this day and age. In a world where every Tom, Dick and Sally is frantically typing his every waking thought, the quaint notion of writer’s block in a social media environment seems like a poor excuse of sorts.

We are in the midst of one of the most fascinating presidential elections in modern history, where, the notion of a black man as front-runner would have been unheard of not that long ago. Where his political rise to power and financial prowess was largely orchestrated by the fusion of grass roots and social media technology. And yet, after more than ten years of writing about every political, cultural or social phenomenon, I have found — and find — myself wordless.

Although I frequently allow myself to slip into a mode of observation only - to simply absorb what is going on around me, every now and again I still have an overwhelming urge to spit something out.

McCain advisor, Phil Gramm’s remarks about an imaginary recession; Thabo Mbeki’s incomprehensible continued policy of “quiet diplomacy” with a sick and demented dictator named Robert Mugabe, who deserves his place at the table with Hitler and Idi Amin. The absurd furor over a New Yorkermagazine cover featuring a satire of Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as Muslim terrorists, essentially because it is not sufficiently dumbed down enough to make it obvious to Joe Shmo that it is, truly, a satire.

Yet just one paragraph into the idea, the words evaporate, leaving me with a hundred opening paragraphs but not one full-fledged anything.

And everything I want to say is already being said a million times over by a zillion different people in a gazillion different ways anyway. Global, multilingual interpretations of prepackaged press releases by desperate publicists about their desperate clients.

With an avalanche of verbiage spewing faster and more furiously than green house gas emissions on a Texan highway, I feel myself being drowned in a cacophony of self-absorbed trivia masquerading as the new information pipeline. User-generated crap. The empty promise of Web 2.0.

Communities of like-minded communities linked to like-minded communities of like-minded people for like-minded discussions about like-minded subjects concerning like-minded consumption of like-minded products in like-minded earnestness for like-minded drones to inform like-minded sheep with like-minded generosity about like-minded everything so that like-minded beneficiaries can wallow in like-minded individuality.

Bullshit 2.0.

For every deed, a million analyses; for every sentence, a million deconstructions. Blogs begetting blogs, begetting social networks, begetting conversations and commentaries. Comments about comments for comments, responses for responses about responses. Words tripping over words to embellish words about words. Sentences about sentences, broken down into keywords and efficiently retagged into categories and subjects to be repurposed and rehashed and replayed and redeployed. An over-bloated, over-tagged, over-stuffed, over-sub-categorized, over-rated, over-extended, over-hyped, overload of over-analyzed, over-distributed, over-offered, over-done overstatement — over and over and over again.

I am part of the problem. I breathe it. I create it. I enable it. I read it, feed on it, absorb it, process it, analyze it, regurgitate it and piss it back. As if somehow, my own bullshit filter transforms the same old, tired shit into fresh, new, insightful, meaningful, and appropriate pearls of infinite wisdom, strategically cast before grateful, appreciative, deserving, under-served swine.

Is this what Web 2.0 is all about? Nothing more than a verbal diuretic facilitating uniquely tailored bullshit aimed at relevant audience segments in a social media constructed world?

Bring on Web 3.0. Immediately.

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Today my new employer, i.TV, an up-and-coming startup with headquarters in Palo Alto, announced our first release of the “TV & Movies” App for the iPhone. The TV & Movies App we feel will change the way you watch TV and Movies. We intend to revolutionize entertainment so that you see what you want to see on TV and in the Movies, and that starts with your iPhone.

When you open up the TV & Movies App for the iPhone it starts by asking you your location, and, based on GPS coordinates, it finds your location, and recommends your local TV providers in the area (I’m using Louis Gray’s screenshots for this - he did such a great job on them!). It then downloads listings from your area, right to your iPhone, along with Movie Theater listings around your area.

From the TV listings, you can click through, choose your favorites, rate each TV show, view actors and upcoming episodes, choose star ratings for each, along with post reviews about each show and see what others have shared. You can rate reviews even and share how helpful they were to you.

Beyond just TV listings, we let you look up what movies are playing in your area. We’ll display the theaters closest to you and let you choose from the list and see all movies showing from those theaters at given times. From each movie listing you can do the same things you can do from TV shows - write reviews, rate your favorite movies, and more!

Within each movie or TV show you have the capability to also view pictures from the show, from movies you can watch the preview for the movie right on your iPhone (something that will keep you surfing for quite awhile!). You can also recommend movies and TV shows to your friends via e-mail.

There is an entire section devoted to search. So, for instance, I can type in “football” and see everything playing related to football at a given time. Or I can type in “computers”, or “fishing”, or you name it and find out what’s playing related to that term at the given time. You can also add any show or movie to your favorites (when you give it a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”, it also adds it to your “My Media” page.

What attracted me to this company is what is coming soon after our launch though. Above each listing is a button that says, “watch”. In the near future you’ll soon be able to save to a Tivo, stream your favorite episodes, and more, all right on your iPhone!

I have been hired onto i.TV as their Chief Community Officer - my responsibilities include Social Product Strategies for the company, and I’m currently working on a social application that I think will blow your socks off if you’re a TV or Movie junkie like myself. Stay tuned to our blog for much more news to come - this is only the beginning of Media, My Way.

We are simply awaiting iTunes to post the App to the iTunes store (we were expecting it to appear today, but due to the iTunes 8 launch it may be in the next day or two). We will update you via our blog and Twitter (we’ll update Twitter first!) when it’s available. You can read the official announcement here: http://mediamyway.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/itv-not-in-app-store-yetcoming-soon/. Check out our video here (YouTube Channel coming soon!): http://i.tv.

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Red Tide

it is red algae
the ranger explains
he is so young, i think,
it must be intern week

it releases an odor like
ammonia, he continues
he doesn’t know, i think,
how i grew up on the coast

my allergies must be
getting worse, i think,
as i cough with every breath
it passes, though, as i head inland

and, sometimes, i also think
of what death will feel like to everyone else

(click the image above to see all the photos)