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MSN Bets on Laziness

Posted in Internet, Marketing, Trends on Nov 29th, 2007

At the Consumer Technology Innovations conference in San Francisco yesterday, Joanne Bradford, Corporate Vice President & Chief Media Officer of Microsoft’s MSN, said the popularity of Facebook, MySpace and YouTube proves that web portals continue to be viable, despite the trend toward extreme individualism encapsulated in the expression “long tail.”
From CNET’s post about the conference:
For […]

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New Dolan Legal Blog — Not Just for Badgers

Posted in Dolan Media, Internet, Law on Nov 27th, 2007

Our roster of Dolan Media blogs is growing. Today, I’m pleased to point you to The Wisconsin Law Journal Blogs. What you get here are the thoughts of several area legal scholars and legal affairs reporters writing mostly, but not entirely, about matters of law in their home state.
So, for example:
Tony Anderson writes […]

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Will the Writers’ Strike Make Hollywood More Like Silicon Valley?

Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Technology on Nov 13th, 2007

Legendary tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen explains that the Silicon Valley way of creating businesses might be what its polar opposite, the entertainment industry, might turn into as a result of the WGA strike; and of the underlying issue behind the strike, the convergence of scripted movie and TV entertainment with the Internet.
The whole, very long […]

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Following Up the Writers’ Strike: The Back Channel

Posted in Internet, Labor, Media on Nov 7th, 2007

On the last day before the Writers Guild of America went on strike, two of the most powerful entertainment executives offered a deal through a back channel. If the WGA stopped demanding DVD residuals, the producers would improve the residual formula applied to Internet downloads of movies and TV shows, according to Nikke Finke’s […]

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(The Writers Mumble Inaudibly)

Posted in Internet, Labor, Media, Professional Services on Nov 6th, 2007

The Writers Guild of America’s spokespersons are “potentially hurting their cause by being so slow to explain their side to the media,” according to Daily Variety, the showbiz trade publication.
The writers are “in danger of getting swift-boated,” the unsigned essay states — alluding to 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s refusal to defend himself against […]

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A Monday Communiqué from Dolan Media

Posted in Dolan Media, Internet, Law, Marketing, Telecommunications on Nov 5th, 2007

Do college students like to text-message? Uh, yeah. So officials at the University of Maryland and other colleges in the state can’t figure out why so few have signed up for an emergency-alert program instituted after the shootings at Virginia Tech.
According to the Daily Record, one law enforcement official thinks students are wary […]

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Social Networking Beats Working

Posted in Employees, Internet on Oct 8th, 2007

From my perch in the stratosphere…
I look down on this Monday morning and see American workers, busily sending Linked-In and Facebook invitations to each other. These networks are sprawling now, as if fueled by Red Bull and Miracle-Gro, their tendrils reaching and burrowing into the minds of once-productive employees now shaking hands and exchanging […]

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