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YouTube’s YouWoo of Mickey Mouse

The Walt Disney Company announced a far-reaching agreement with YouTube to launch multiple ad-supported channels featuring clips and other short-form content from ESPN and the Disney/ABC Television empire including ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Family and SOAPnet. Under the terms of the deal Disney Media Networks will have the option to sell its own ad inventory to the content, the traditional model, or take advantage of Google's more innovative approaches. ESPN's video player will be integrated on its YouTube channel to showcase sports…
March 31, 2009
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Ninthlink Book Review Blog #6: The Big Switch

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr NY: WW Norton, 2009. 224 pp.; $16.95 We first heard about this book from a tweet by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who recently  found a new medium with which to express his anger at NBA officials: Twitter. He was fined $25,000 last Friday by league officials for his tweets. "Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now," Cuban said, which has tto be the quote of the week. (The whole…
March 31, 2009
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Applied Business Anthropology — Huh? What is That?

Lately, commerce has turned to the social sciences to better understand the nature of the business world and its many components. Likewise, anthropologists, sociologists, human communications and human organization experts, as well as those in the health, medical, and sports psychology fields have focused their ethnographic gaze on the business world and the culture of consumerism, the culture of the dot com world, and the culture of entrepreneurship. Business is all about the way humans organize and find meaning in…
March 29, 2009
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Lynch TV Launches with 1/2 of the Beatles Reunion

Can't get enough of David Lynch, or wait years for his next movie?  Fans can rejoice, for the filmmaker and transcendental meditation guru has founded a new website:  David Lynch Foundation Television. Watch Schweizer fernsehen im Ausland - Stream with VPN for free. It offers video snippets of  "consciousness, creativity and bliss." Lynch founded the foundation to try and educate at-risk young people on how to overcome stress and violence. (more…)
March 28, 2009