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Clacked by Jay Black 
on May 02, 2011 @ 12:00 EST5EDT
Hey jay and Brian!
I have a great idea for a reality show(fox may want to pick this up)! It’s called WHO WANTS TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT? What do u think??
Clay Aiken never had a myspace blog, he wrote on his official fan club. He also thanked his fans for helping to save Jericho but never took credit. You guys are total tools and the obligatory gay slam was just pathetic. Grow the hell up!
Hey Alex!
First, we were trying to remember something from a lot of years ago off the top of our heads. Here’s the article from 2007:
https://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/06/clay-aiken-takes-credit-for-reviving-jericho/
Second, in defense of the “nuts” joke — I’m not sure I would call that a slam, necessarily. Neither of us said “oh, it’s bad that Clay Aiken is gay,” we just couldn’t help the temptation of a pun. We would have made similar bad jokes if Clay Aiken worked at a hardware store and/or was a squirrel.
and Third, You’re still this much of an Aiken fan? Really? I’m not criticizing, I’m just shocked that there’s that much passion left for him. It’s actually more probable to my way of thinking that this podcast somehow slipped into a time warp and you’re communicating “Frequency” style from the mid-2000s than it is that someone in 2011 can still work up this kind of anger about Clay Aiken. It’s fascinating.
All things considered, though, it’s nice to see someone posting so vigorously on our boards. Would love for you to check out the other podclacks — but be warned, there are several hundred poor-taste puns sprinkled throughout. I’m working on it in therapy.
I don’t remember how I happened upon this podcast (or this site), but found the conversation with Bob Sassone very interesting. What’s happened to TV Squad is what’s happened generally, as the Web/Internet has become corporatized and fragmented at the same time. Fascinating but sad to watch so much of the character, personality, and community wrung out. I would argue, though, that for those us of old enough to remember, Google saved the Web. I understand the SEO problem, which I’ve also recently seen blamed for killing newspapers, but I can’t imagine going back to the old days, when a lost bookmark meant never being able to find a favorite site again and more time was spent managing bookmarks than enjoying content. Not sure what the solution is, but blaming Google or search engines seems sort of like killing the messenger. It’s not the optimization of search at the heart of the problem, but the optimization of profits.
Samantha:
Search engines are great for all the reasons you say, but my point during that part of my talk with Jay was that it’s foolish to base your entire business on someone else’s business, and that’s what sites that rely on SEO are doing. If Google were to disappear overnight, what would be the stategy of those sites then? What would happen? They have business plans that rely on search engines, and I think that’s a bad strategy.