No deal? 

Got an unsolicited offer of $75 for iknowthatsong.com. I should hang on to it, don't you think?

I know what didn't work with my literature podcast game, though it did have some rabid fans, and I did something like 90 episodes before I podfaded over a year ago. I keep thinking there's a place for some kind of game that's a podcast featurette played within other podcasts. Something like the old Hit Test in Daily Source Code, except you get to interact in a more meaningful way than shouting the answer to the wind.

Publicradiofy your blog posts 

NPR should make story and segment clips available as MP3 files that you could embed in your blog, like YouTube but for audio. Make a classy little flash player with a playlist of related files. Maybe they could even raise some funds with it. Some little micropayment for each use of it on your site?

'I work for the White House, you work for the White House' 

Two lawyers canned from their U.S. attorney jobs, John McKay, Western Washington, and David Iglesias, New Mexico, participated in a public policy forum at the University of Seattle yesterday. Then they met with Seattle Times staff. This from McKay on early warning signs that the AG and the White House had a job description in mind that was at variance with the U.S. attorneys own ideas about the role:

McKay said he began to have concerns about politics entering the Justice Department in early 2005, when Gonzales addressed all of the country's U.S. attorneys in Scottsdale, Ariz., shortly after he took over as attorney general.

"His first speech to us was a 'you work for the White House' speech," McKay recalled. " 'I work for the White House, you work for the White House.' "

McKay said he thought at the time, "He couldn't have meant that speech," given the traditional independence of U.S. Attorneys. "It turns out he did."

He looked around the meeting room and caught the eyes of his colleagues, who gave him looks of surprise at Gonzales' remarks. "We were stunned at what he was saying."

Gonzales reprises his Senate committee testimony for a House committee today. I almost feel sorry for the poor schnook.