The Daily Loper – October 6, 2006

Today’s links of interest:

• Retired S1Ws Recalled To Active Duty
  Seems to be the next logical step in the War on the Terrordome.
• Olbermann’s Special Comment: It is not the Democrats whose inaction in the face of the enemy you fear
  Olbermann’s latest takedown.
• WSJ reports Google and YouTube are in acquisition talks
  Well, that’s one way to solve the Google Video problem.
• Google in Talks to Buy YouTube
  Well, when you have that much extra money sitting around, you need to do something with it.
• ‘Make Click’ On Borat’s ‘Official Home Site’
  Mmmm, retro.
• MySpace For Baby Boomers
  Hmm, now that it’s mostly over-30’s on MySpace, isn’t that what MySpace is?
• Bloggers: Lawsuits Won’t Stop Publishers From Blogging
  It’s good to know that citizen journalism won’t stop in the face of litigation.
• Google Will Subpoena Rivals to Help Fight Copyright Suits
  Ah, the book scanning suits turn ugly. And they say that publishing is a gentleman’s business.
• MySpace Founder Seeks Inquiry
  Apparently, the News Corp acquistion was a "scandal". Yes, but possibly not for the reasons noted here.
• New Media A Weapon in New World Of Politics
  Well, that paradigm shift didn’t take long, did it?
• Who Killed TiVoToGo?
  DRM.
• Bizarre: It’s the dog’s Borats
  The best film to come out of Kazakhstan since Three Goats And My Sister 2
• It’s not too late to jump aboard ‘Battlestar Galactica’
  And we welcome Tim Goodman to our ranks! What took you so long?
• Zune Won’t Kill the IPod
  Hmm, haven’t we all read this somewhere else? Oh right, here.
• Digital sales shore up ailing music biz
  Never fear: Universal will surely see this news as a call to release some sort of new CD packaging to entice the kids back into the fold.
• Youths no longer predominant at MySpace
  Every kid’s fear: stumbling across his mother’s MySpace page and discovering her love for Jackson Browne.
• It’s no joke: IU study finds The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be as substantive as network news
  We love when studies prove unconventional wisdom that we’ve already held to be self-evident.