Uh oh. My friend Alex Grossman emailed me last night that the prank's over, he just got caught being "Governor Palin" on Facebook. Remember that day, months ago, when we could all log on to Facebook and register our names? Well, Alex registered his, like the rest of his. And then — oops — Alex [...]

Patrick Hosmer's new blog post today — "Branded Censorship Will Make Us All Rich" — is pure genius. Patrick's a great young producer, another breakout talent from the land of mtvU (there's something in the water at mtvU). Patrick's a graphic designer, writer, editor, producer…basically a one man creative force. He's not just brilliant, he [...]

Thanks to MSI for this extremely excellent morning media moment of the day, which everybody and their mother is now passing around. Makes you want one of your very own?

Last week's performance in my office by MTV News' Benjamin Wagner has become a pretty popular post on Something Burning. Seems like people enjoy his music as much in a video square on the interweb as we all did hearing it live. So I thought I'd post another song he did for us that day. [...]

It's been inspiring to watch the creative evolution of Spike TV's short-form franchise REAL MEN OF ACTION. Launched about 3 years ago, it's led creatively by Spike's Niels Schuurmans, who in addition to running marketing for Spike, teams up with sponsors like Scion to create original, short-form programming. MTV Networks Entertainment Group integrated marketing guru [...]

Back in June, I posted about Dave Carroll, who by now everyone knows had his guitar broken by an initially unrepentant United Airlines. Since then, there have been too many updates to keep up to date on. Tributes, imitations, pledges of solidarity, hateful rants against United Airlines, donations, and now this, which Daniel Nester just [...]