The Daily Loper – September 19, 2006

Today’s arrrrr-ticles of interest:

• Disney: 125K iTunes Movies Sold in a Week
  I wonder how many movies Unbox sold in the same week?
• Air America vs. The Truthseeker
  It appears that Mike Malloy is the only person who knows how to update the Air America website. Too bad they fired him.
• Elton John calls iPods "silly"
  You don’t want to know what we call Elton John.
• Jack Bauer wants you!
  The CIA is running snazzy "24"-inspired ads in movie theatres aimed at recruiting Americans of Arab & Asian descent. Of course, Jack Bauer works for CTU, not the CIA. And *all* commercials prior to movies suck.
• ‘Veronica Mars: The Complete Second Season’ – The intrepid teen sleuth tackles an even bigger mystery
  In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, we want to remind you that you should be watching this show when Season 3 debuts on Oct 3. It’s arrrrrrr-guably the best show on network TV.
• Companies wake up to blogs’ barking
  See, the blogs have been paying attention to companies for a long time, so it’s time to give a little love back.
• YouTube Model Is Compromise Over Copyrights
  This almost slipped under the radar with yesterday’s WB announcement, but apparently YouTube will be able to parse out copyrighted material and share revenues with the owners.
• Microsoft enters YouTube waters
  Okay, *now* it’s official. Everyone has a video-sharing site. All the interfaces remain hard-to-use.
• Senator Says Media Study Suppressed
  So the FCC has now apparently suppressed two reports. Sigh, they wonder why people are losing faith in the government’s ability to be honest.
• Voters Keelhaul Pirate Party
  If only Kirk had known this was an option…
• Lohan breaks wrist in fall
  We only mention this because if she sues for a fall she took at a party, Lindsay Lohan officially passes Paris Hilton as The Worst Celebrity In The World.
• iPod fans ’shunning iTunes store’
  Something about this study feels wrong..maybe it’s the conclusions, not the assertions.
• Former FCC chairman denies seeing media ownership study
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, but was he listening when people said this would happen?
• What’ll be first new fall show to fall?
  BrilliantButCancelled starts things off with a little game called "Fall Season Death Watch 2006".
• Yahoo Inc. defending its Internet turf
  Advertising blitz reminds people that Yahoo still matters.
• RealNetworks, SanDisk to take on iPod
  Or rather, as the article indicates, they’re really going after the Zune.
• Warner distribute videos through YouTube
  In this case "video" is used in the old-fashioned sense of the word: bands, music, bad hair, prancing through streets like it adds meaning to the song.