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| 6:00 PM 1/8/2010
I've been watching the recent cable wars with a bemused detachment. The Time Warner threat to leave fans without their Jack Bauer and "American Idol" sent chills down some spines, but the power of the Fox brand was too strong and the cable company caved. It turned out that Time Warner needed Fox...
| 10:00 AM 12/15/2009
As owner of some of the most successful blogs in the history of the Internet -- I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog and Engrish Funny among them -- it might be expected that Ben Huh spends lavishly. But Huh recognizes the importance of frugal living; it allowed him and his wife to save enough money...
| 1:39 PM 9/1/2009
Look, if I truly knew the answer to the question of how to monetize the newspaper mainstream media, I'd be drinking mai tais on the beach of my very own island in the South Pacific. That said, I do know enough to suggest some ways the MSM, at least, can slow the decline in profits.
1. Dump Print....
| 4:30 PM 7/14/2009
In a move that can be described only as sheer brilliance, the creators of the Slap Chop infomercial have embraced the rap remix floating around on the Interwebz and are releasing it as an actual standalone infomercial.Now, some might note that the embedded video is a bit different than the original...
| 9:00 AM 7/11/2009
WalletPoppers Amy Vernon and Todd Pruzan discovered they ... disagreed about the usefulness of the rice cooker: that stove-top electric appliance that does exactly what you can do with a cup of rice, a cup of water, a pan, and pretty much zero effort whatsoever. But Todd had some arguments that...