Best To Soon Get A Tech Lesson!

Jimmy Carter in Ft. Lauderdale

If you want to make your head spin, go the NAB in Las Vegas. I was back for the first time in a few years. It is very simple: The technology speedway is damn fast and overwhelming. For dual-career path people in radio and television, the future is here and more of that future is on the way, economy or not -- the software the nanotechnology, the 3D, HD, every kind of d.

The folks out there are technology polarized by age, race, sex, you name it. In pure age, you better figure out now how to get on Facebook because it's hard to find a below-25er not on it. The fastest growing group in 50-plus females! MySpace is there, too, but losing out to Facebook.

This does not appear to be a fad. The idea of social networking will only get simpler. The things you will be able to do with digital still cameras and small HD ones will impact Facebook and radio. Just watched a story on Playboy shooters in Nashville and the story was VIDEO only on the Nashville newspaper!

Home 3D TV is in the future, too. Sat through an extensive demonstration at Sony. It is high-definition and 3D ... sat through an editing demo, too ... gave me a headache. And yes, you wear the glasses when editing too...

Lights, video, remote trucks ... everything is smaller and more portable. Video walls instead of video monitors ... LED lights instead of the hot tungsten ... small high-quality video cameras.

Streaming video from your radio station or tour bus is coming....directly to Facebook and coming soon......

The app business is huge as well....Love my IPhone and that is only going more high tech as is the Blackberry and other smart phones.

Taylor Swift is on top of everyone in this high-tech race ... .she has 84 million profile views on My Space and 304,000 followers on Twitter. Her headliner show is on opening weekend and sounds fantastic. She plays more than a half-dozen musical instruments and more than a half-dozen costume changes. (Mandrell influence -- a CASTLE appears lit by over a million lumens of light. And on and on ... she is the gal of the moment.)

The PR effort matches the first-class everything that's involved with Taylor. Got great quality stills this morning in e-mail ... Everyone can learn from how they are doing this act!

No Leno for Brad Friday night ... Jay was in the hospital for possible food poisoning.

CMA Music Festival's lineup has come together ... That first night is very strong, with a big closing night to go along with it. BamaJam's lineup is strong and ready and the STICKS festival people may have dodged a bullet getting out of that rookie festival alive and in one piece.

The huge Stagecoach festival in Indio, CA is this weekend and they should be praying for some cool Pacific air because that desert may be a hot one this weekend..

Vegas now has the NASCAR champions at the Wynn December 4th -- same time as the rodeo finals. Goodbye, NYC, which didn't know what to think about NASCAR anyway.

Miss California got a standing ovation at the DOVE awards last night at the Opry House. Carrie Prejean is she the next big thing ... or the next Joe the Plumber?