Tidbits 2/1

Clay and his UNICEF/Yahoo! Answers question is once again featured on Yahoo.com's homepage. What great exposure for Clay and UNICEF!

• Clay is #17 today on the Yahoo! Buzz Movers list. Searches for the term "Clay Aiken" increased 276% in the last 24 hours. Clay is sandwiched between "Tyra Banks" and "Tyra"... coincidence? I think not!
  
• Ecorazzi - Another great article about Yahoo Answers/UNICEF:

  Incidentally, today is Clay Aiken’s day (Ruben, we hardly knew ya..) and his page features some excellent video on his visit to Uganda in 2005 and over 5,500 answers to the question he poses, “UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans involved?” Ponder that.
  Clay will be on Good Morning America tomorrow morning promoting the campaign and speaking about his time as an UNICEF ambassador.

• Houston Chronicle- this isn't new news, but it's a nice mention ... Entertainment Weekly and MSNBC name the best Idol performances... on the list: Clay's "Solitaire" (EW) and Clay's "Build Me Up A Buttercup" (MSNBC)
  
• Boston's Weekly Dig - American Idol recap...says a auditioner has a "Clay Aiken vibe"
  
• Duke University The Chronicle - review of Katharine McPhee's album... nice Clay mention: "American Idol runners-up have a penchant for outshining the winners of their seasons. Take Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken drubbing Ruben Studdard in both debut album sales and celebrity status."
• Rowan University The Whit - another AI article...

  Sophomore biology/chemistry major John Hetzler agrees that American Idol is one of the best shows around. Although he is pleased with the recent seasons, he says he looks forward to another "Kelly or Clay." Although Hetzler enjoys Clay Aiken's voice, he says Kelly Clarkson is by far his favorite idol because she has "actual" talent.

• Rochester Democrat & Chronicle - random Clay mention in an article about a local idol like contest...
• Detroit Free Press -interview with choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson who has worked with Clay. Gibson will be judging a new MTV show called Making The Band -- "I've worked with everybody -- from the Dixie Chicks to Biggie Smalls to Whitney Houston to, oh God, everybody. Clay Aiken to Hilary Duff to Dido to Michael Jackson, Spike Lee -- I've paid my dues."
  
• The Morning Call - uh... "Christmas and a Jan. 1 New Year's are just too significant on their own to be bunched together. It's a frenzied week that flies by faster than Clay Aiken's career."
• Diamond City Electric City - Ruben article...

  And like The Bus, we don't hear Ruben's name so much these days. Yes, he won the second season of American Idol back in 2003 by the narrowest of margins, but the names Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, and Carrie Underwood impossibly seem to hold more weight than Ruben, and recently it even seems like Chris Daughtry is getting more love.

• The ConCLAYve responds to Clay's UNICEF/Yahoo! Answers question -- “He who saves one life, saves the world entire.” --

  Thanks for all you do to raise awareness, change attitudes and change behavior for the benefit of children, here in the United States (through your work with The Bubel/Aiken Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, President’s Committee for People With Intellectual Disabilities, United States Marines Toys for Tots, Read Across America, Disney Teacher Awards) and across the world (with UNICEF and World Children’s Day).