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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!

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.

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.

Charlie and I are back in action as a team. I had to bring the mascot out of dry dock.

I’ll be in the DC / Arlington area next week for work. If anyone’s around during that time and wants to meet up for dinner or something, let me know.

I’m arriving Monday around noon and leaving Friday afternoon.

Aaron and the team at CMU’s Robotics Club have been putting together a Wiki on the history of the club - a really nice thing to have since the club evolves so much over the years.

I was an active member of the club for my entire time at CMU, and led the club with Gabe Brisson in the ‘97-’98 school year. So many great memories, and many of my practical technical skills came from working on projects with the club, and I have a ton of pictures sitting in a box to attest to that.

So it was great when Aaron offered to scan the pics in so that they could add them to their online photo album. He also let me grab all of the original scans so I can have them digitally.

Sidewider II: A pneumatic frame walker that sounded absolutely amazing when walking at full gait. Standing Sidewinder up and having it start to walk was an event, with wooshes of escaping and compressing air pronouncing each step. We took third place at the SAE Decathlon Walking Machine Competition in Montreal, Canada. You can see the sleep-deprived pics of the trip and competition as well:

Jim I: The prototype for the eventual utter dominance that was Jim II. Jim I was built on almost zero budget, stolen parts, and a dream. On the way to the SAE Decathlon in Illinois , our van broke down in a town where no one has ever seen a robot. At the end of the year, I wrote a grant to request some money from the Heinz Foundation. They gave us $20,000. Jim II was built the next year and scored almost twice the highest score ever in the competition. The Robotics Club stopped building walking machines for the SAE competition and moved on to more diverse projects that allowed them to get more participation and consistent funding:

Iria - The Biped: I worked on this bipedal walking bicycle helmet with Jon Hurst and Brian Olson for my senior thesis. We got a SURG Grant for a few thousand dollars and gave it a shot. A lot of great work was done, and we had a functioning robot at the end of it. But the servos we used just weren’t up to the torque needed to truly make a dynamic walking robot. In the end, Iria could balance on a moving block and I think eventually someone got it to take a step. Not bad for a few thousand dollars and a year of part time work. Oh, and the paper I wrote for my senior thesis was used as prior art in Sony’s Bipedal Ambulation Patent for their QRIO robot: