The Daily Loper – May 4, 2007

I Didn’t Know My License Was Suspended Edition

Todays links of interest:

• If Someone Wanted To Publish My Blog Entries For Money, I Wouldn’t Say No
  One man makes a bold statement.
• YouTube Elevates Most Popular Users to Partners
  Pilot program for top original content creators. Finally.
• Avoiding Ads With TiVo? TiVo Strikes Back
  How to advertise to our customers when they deliberately overlook your advertisements. Or something like that.
• Obama: Make Debate Video Public
  When you can’t post clips of a presidential debate to YouTube because of copyright restrictions there’s something seriously wrong with our democratic process.
• Retail CDs get personal
  Make-your-own-mix-CD ventures are not going to save the CD (and why do we need to save the CD anyway), but it does give consumers a nice option. Of course, the indecisive among us wonder about the long lines as the person at the machine tries to winnow his or her selection down to 15 songs.
• Congress Ups Ante on File Sharing
  Colleges and universities get called the the principal’s office due the large amount of file-sharing happening on their networks. In other news, financial aid officers are happy that they’re not in headlines anymore.
• GOP run could impact actor’s TV time
  Because of all of Fred Thompson’s appearances on "Law and Order" might mean that TNT (which pretty much runs it 24/7) could run afoul of the equal time provision. Meaning that not only would they would also have to air repeated showings of "I Heart Huckabees," but also all of those episodes of "Punky Brewster" that featured John McCain. The only thing that could be worse for TNT would be if Charles Barkley decided to run for the GOP nomination. And while we could totally get behind that, we’re not sure that he can, since he’s already a knight.
• Mercury May Have Molten Fluid Inside
  Dude, what if the molten fluid inside of Mercury was actually mercury? Whoaaaaa!
• Microsoft seeks possible buyout talks with Yahoo
  That sound you hear? Just the realignment of the Earth.
• "The Matrix" tops mag’s sci-fi list
  Hmmph. Wrong.
• Los Angeles tops most polluted list
  Whoo-hoo! We’re Number One! We’re Number One! In your face, Fresno!!
• Ellie-Nominated Mags Go Mobile
  A quick overview of challenges and benefits facing magazines who target the mobile platform.