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A bunch of us at Clearspring can’t get through a day without Pandora’s music streaming in our ears. Me included.

But as many of you know, we’re at risk of losing Pandora due to a massive retroactive royalty hike on Internet radio stations.

To raise awareness and to let people know how they can fight back, we started IHeartPandora.com, a landing page to learn about the problem learn what you can do, and grab a widget badge to show your support.

We have three versions of the badge which you can find on IHeartPandora.com. I put the 300×250 one below, which you can grab right from here.

So put it on your Facebook, Myspace, Wordpress…. wherever… and use the email link in the widget to fire off your vote of support.

Help keep the music on!

About a month ago, Robyn and I swabbed our cheeks to collect DNA samples to send to DNA11. This company performs a gel electrophoresis, extracts certain markers and makes amazing portraits out of them.

Here we are collecting our DNA last month:

And here’s the result. Keep an eye out for the pics that describe what markers are highlighted:

… and the winner for the best Notorious B.I.G. reference in a menu is…

Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington.

They love it when you order BIG Poppa, and they have pretty much the best burger I’ve ever eaten.

Ted is the Chairman of our board and an amazingly successful internet entrepreneur. Check out his history at his blog. In a recent interview with Kara Swisher at All Things Digital, he spoke about Clearspring and his other cool projects.

Now you can track her campaign death spiral with your very own Clearspring widget!

Clearspring is powering the widget campaign for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

From Reuters:

The widget will be updated with new media regularly up until the premiere of the movie, so if you grab it for your desktop, social network page or blog, you’ll see the latest stuff as they release it.

I’m proud to say that my favorite company and favorite show / website are now together in happy cross-Atlantic union.

Though Top Gear the show is only on seasonally, the site keeps the snarky reviews going year round. You can grab the Clearspring-powered widget here at Top Gear online. Or you can just click Get & Share above - that’s what being viral is all about.

Check for pulse
Blink your eyes
One for yes
Two for no

I have no idea what I am talking about
I’m trapped in this body and can’t get out
Ooooohhhh

It is the 21st century

and Radiohead’s made the coolest widget on our platform right now.

The seed location is here at TBDRecords.

I met a guy who runs some of KISS (the band)’s marketing at a conference and he sent me the coolest Christmas card ever.

My company, Clearspring, is powering a promotion for the movie Cloverfield. The movie looks really cool actually - something I’d actually want to go see.

Anyway, if you grab the widget below I get some points in a contest that could win me some junk. The top 20 people with the most widget grabs win something. You can enter too by grabbing it and sharing it.