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The Daily Loper – October 31, 2006

October 31, 2006 by Lopy

Oooooooh, Scaaaarrrrry! Edition

Today’s links of interest:

  • British comedian Cohen sets his sights on Austria
    For everybody worried about being the butt of these types of movies, here a rule: don’t talk to strangers with cameras, and for gods sakes, read the waiver forms fully if you do.
  • Fox Gets It Wrong, NBC Says ‘Studio 60’ Stays Onboard
    Everything you read …
  • Fake News Back on YouTube
    …yesterday was wrong.
  • YouTube Pulling Comedy Central Clips? Not Necessarily
    Ah, the plot thickens.
  • Glitches cited in early voting
    You’ll never believe this. It turns out that early votes for Democrats are actually being given to Republicans. Who woulda thought?
  • More Media Insight Than W Can Shake His ‘Google’ At
    More answers to unasked questions.
  • Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Reddit
    Looks like our favorite social bookmark site is no longer independent. Hopefully this is good news.
  • Diller?s Web: Think Cable of the Past
    Darn, and we were just thinking of it as the way of the future.
  • Pentagon mounts public affairs ops to counter bad news, exploit "new media"
    In a previous era, this was also known as "propaganda".
  • Google acquires wiki tool developer
    World domination, Google style.
  • Down With DRM Video Contest Winners Announced!
    Guess which filmmakers won’t be asked to shoot videos for major labels anytime soon. Not that they’d want to.
  • MySpace to block illegal use of copyrighted music
    Oh yeah, they’re totally going to maintain their current level of popularity.
  • Forget ratings — TV gets huge payoff from elections
    The losers are, of course, those of us who have to tivo through commercial after commercial after commercial.
  • R.E.M., Van Halen Headed to Hall?
    Sure. They should be. As should The Replacements, and, er, um, KISS.

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