David Archuleta, the singer who came in second place on the eighth season of American Idol, has had more success than the majority of AI castoffs. However, his busy schedule means he is having some trouble keeping up with obligations. Last week, he was set to do a phone interview with a radio station in Chicago, but he forgot about it and then Tweeted an apology. That led one of the posters on the fansite Fans of David to suggest that the singer needs a personal assistant. Despite what people think from the title of this blog, I’m not opposed to people having assistants if they need them - as long as they treat said assistants respectfully, of course. As the FOD poster said:
Could this perhaps be (yet another) sign that David may benefit from a personal assistant? You know…one of those super-proficient professionally-trained staff who knows what he wants and needs before he does? Someone who has him scheduled smoothly down to the second? Why yes, I believe that now is the time.
If you decide not to hire an assistant, David, might I suggest setting up some Google Alerts? They’ve saved my ass many a time.
Being unemployed has many upsides - free money from the government, sleeping late, People’s Court reruns - but it has major downsides as well. When you’re broke and hitting a brick wall with your job search, the last thing you want to do is rehash all the humiliation. However, you are most likely not an island. Your friends love you. So here’s a guide for talking to them about your unemployment:
If you’re unemployed, it seems far more fun to sit around all day constantly updating Twitter than scouring the job ads yet again. Well, Mashable (the folks behind Twitter) 
Whoever is working in web marketing over at AMC needs a raise. I’m loving the amount of Mad Men characters who have “official” Twitter accounts. Here’s a list of some of them, if you’re interested in following: @don_draper, @peggyolson, @ken_cosgrove, @bettydraper, @sal_romano, @_petecampbell, and @paulkinsey. [If you're a non-Twitterer but want to check out one of their pages, the rule for how to get the address is you take whatever comes after the "@" and put it after www.twitter.com. Thus, the STA twitter is @saveassistants, or www.twitter.com/saveassistants.] It’s a very clever way to keep people engaged and interested in the show while it’s on hiatus, and it’s like manna for those of us who are addicted to the show and need something to tide us over until new episodes premiere.
Everybody - well, except STA - has a Twitter. And now it seems that celebrities are moving away from using their MySpace for press to using their Twitter to ‘communicate’ with their fans. And one of the celebrities with Twitter is Ms. Britney “Comeback” Spears herself. 
When the “virtual personal assistant” computer program I Want Sandy debuted last year,