I recently wrote about the really bad Holly Hunter interview from the ABCNews.com segment called What’s the Buzz. I originally wrote about this interview and linked to the video as my video of the week but it turns out this story is becoming a case study for web 2.0 cluelessness (if that’s even a word).

Now ABC News is playing this story up like the interviewer, Merry Miller, is an Internet celebrity like the Evolution of Dance guy when in reality this is more akin to the Star Wars kid (video here for the uninitiated) brand of celebrity. Steve Bryant over at Reel Pop nailed this whole thing on the head. He said, “Miller’s celebrity isn’t positive, no matter how much she or ABC tries to spin it. Her appearance was a series of simple mistakes, good for a laugh. But by conflating notoriety for celebrity, ABC reveals they’re just as out-of-touch as Miller.”

So what’s the lesson here? If you’re going to venture into these new waters try to get some people on board who know the culture. It’s not enough to find people who can execute technically. There’s an entire culture shift around the new media. ABC is on the right track going the You Be the Anchor angle and they could have played that up more. Unfortunately, ABC’s lack of new media understanding shines brighter.

I’ve seen my fair share of bloopers and sports injury video clips but I’ve never quite seen a fall (or maybe free fall is a better term) like this. The good news is he walks away in the end.

Link for the feed readers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBvCrSjpx9I

If you’re a blogger you’ve probably got a blogroll. If you’ve been blogging for a while, chances are your blogroll has gotten pretty lengthy as you’ve traded links with various bloggers. I’ve been blogging for over a year and had 31 blogs I was linking to from my blog. It struck me tonight that it’s been a while since a viewed a few of them so I decided to start going down the list and here’s what I found:

• Dead Blogs - Two of the blogs don’t exist anymore. The guys shut them down for various reasons.
• Dying Blogs - One of the blogs hadn’t been updated since April. It’s on life support at best.
• Departed Blogs - One of the blogs had a new address and I was linking to an old blog.

Needless to say it wasn’t speaking well for my blog upkeep to be linking to dead, dying, and departed blogs. The dead and dying blogs were removed and the departed blog now links to the appropriate address. A few of the existing blogs are close to hitting a month of zero blog posts so I’ll check on them again over the next few weeks. I don’t know when I’ll officially put them into the “dying” category (and therefore remove them from my blogroll) but if six weeks have passed without a post I think it’s fair to say the blog is dying.

So when is the last time you went through your own blogroll? Are you linking to any dead, dying or departed blogs?