John Hodgman, the dude who plays the square ‘PC’ guy in commercials and appeared on The Daily Show, provided an inadvertent lesson by example when he accidentally tweeted his cell phone number.

Hodgman was using Tweetie, possibly on an iPhone, and made the not-too-difficult mistake of posting what was intended to be a DM as a public tweet. Sequence of events:

“I haven’t heard from you and am wary of waking you up,” he tweeted — in public, by accident. “Want to say 10am? I’ll call after 9, or you can: 917-XXX-XXXX.” (Our redaction.) He quickly deleted the message, following up: “Clearly that was designed to be a DM.”

While Hodgman’s not necessarily being stalked by paparazzi or a gossip column mainstay, he still has over 82,000 followers. Chances are high he doesn’t know all or many of his followers, so the idea of a cell phone number being “out there” is a bit scary. Hopefully no one with nefarious intentions saw it- but as we all know, the internet has a long memory.

[Image: Areas of My Expertise]

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The theme of his speech was “nerds” and how President Obama could qualify as a nerd. There is no doubt that John Hodgman qualifies as a nerd. His speech last 14 minutes, but its worth every second. His speech is hilarious!

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Last night saw a gathering of of radio and TV correspondents for their annual dinner. This year the big names invited to speak were John Hodgman – better known as Mr. PC, and Barak Obama – better known as Mr. President.

Here in sequence of appearance are the videos of their time at the mike making folks chuckle. First up – President Obama:

Followed by the indomitable Mr. John Hodgman

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Not long after news broke that Microsoft had dumped Jerry Seinfield from the current $300 million Windows campaign, the New York Times reported that the second stage of the campaign would highlight everyday Windows users, such as Eva Longoria, Deepak Chopra and Pharrell Williams, sharing with the world how they love and use Microsoft products.

The new phase of the campaign will include a head on challenge to Apple’s Mac vs PC campaign, complete with a John Hodgman clone (pic top left) saying that he’s a PC and a stereotype, before the everyday people share their stories. Other everyday people to feature in the campaign include scientists, fashion designers and shark hunters, the sort of people average folk can relate to.

As I’ve said previously, I’ll hold back on my judgment until I see the ad, and it can’t be any worse that the first phase. At least this time there’s a message…sort of Marketing 101 for first year marketing students who don’t take crack.

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