MTV launches a search for a "Twitter Jockey," Teen Choice Award nominees are out (and awful), The Situation raps, Obama shares in America's soccer-related joy, and Breaking Bad is renewed for another season after a finale was apparently nuts.


He might not have cleared up the oil spill yet, but he's still pretty damn awesome. Image via The Daily What.

In TV News...

  • MTV is so over Video Jockeys. So what's next? A nation-wide contest to uncover the country's best Twitter Jockey. [Geekosystem]
  • On the eve of its third season finale, Breaking Bad was renewed for a fourth season. [The Live Feed]
  • Don't be so quick to dismiss Google TV, it's apparently a bigger deal thank you think. [Paid Content]
  • Lucky for us, The Situation, of Jersey Shore fame, has embarked on a rap career. [Movieline]
  • The A.V. Club has begun their weekly True Blood recaps. [AV Club]
  • Nominees for the Teen Choice Awards have been posted on line. Youc an vote once a day until the show airs for your favorite Gossip Girls, Twilight cast members, and 90120 "stars." [The Wrap]
  • Lifetime is considering an Army Wives spinoff with Gabrielle Union in the lead role. [Just Johnny Webster]
  • A confession: men can like The Bachelorette, too. [TV Squad]
  • The first three seasons of Boy Meets World will be re-released on DVD. [Oh No They Didn't]

Around the Web...

  • Conan O'Brien's live record that he recorded with Jack White last week is already available for pre-order! [Third Man Records]
  • Last night Scarlett Johansson won a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play. NY Mag's Vulture asks, this morning, How long she wins an EGOT? [Vulture]
  • For reasons only the rest of the world can understand, Prince of Persia has done absurdly well overseas, earning over 190 million dollars. [Box Office Mojo]
  • Hey, neat: a new Gabe & Max video in which they read their fan mail! [Max Silvestri]
  • A great read about Ben Huh and the "I Can Has Cheeseburger" empire. That empire has now absorbed The Daily What, a fantastic tumblr that provided the image at the top of the page. [New York Times]
  • In case it's been plaguing your mind, here's a link to the tale of how pedobear came to be. [Metafilter]
  • Fifteen awesome social media infograohics. [Econsultancy]
  • Considering changing my name to Irate Mercenary, the name I was just given by the Wu-Tang Clan name generator. [Pat's Papers]