Yep, I'm still Alive. Thanks for asking.

Well it's been far too long since I last posted. I want to write something more regularly, but I just have so much going on between school and whatnot. But I'll make an effort. And thanks to all those spammers who kept emailing me, trying to get me to put links from my blog to your websites. I give you all a collective "no".

Anyways, keeping with the theme of spamming... I have a new book out. Buy it.

It's called The Oris. It officially goes on sale April 16th, but you can order a copy from Amazon right now if you like. For more info on the book and whatnot, just check out my website (www.BradNorman.com)

Cool... so with that out of the way... I suppose I should write something that is at least somewhat newsworthy.

Apparently, Viacom decided to sue the popular video blog site YouTube. For how much? One BILLION dollars. Yes. Billion. Why? Viacom (the company behind TV stations like MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, etc) asked YouTube to remove unauthorized clips of Viacom shows from their website. There's over 100 000 of these "unauthorized" clips, including episodes of Sponge Bob and segments from The Daily Show. But come on... YouTube doesn't put those videos there themselves... their millions of users upload them. It's unrealistic to expect them to search for hours and hours every day to weed out all the "non-blog" videos. Sure they could do what other video-blog sites (such as Revver) did, as not allowed videos be available to the public until it has been viewed first by a moderator to ensure there's no copyright violations... but with the number of videos uploaded daily to YouTube, it could take days before a video gets approved. And that defeats the purpose of a blog. Imagine getting your newspaper three or four days late (not that my paper delivery person is far off that mark)... it would stink.

In conclusion... MTV is among the worst things to ever happen to the planet. For many many many more reasons that this.