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Winter be damned Last week the cashmere gloves came offamp160amp160 Just as our presidential candidates particularly of the blue varietal are pitting change against experience ie the status quo that same contest writ large is also the meta in the Writers Strike the forced march of the recording industry the future of the mobile industry Last week as CES unfolded and the Globes were emasculated the hibernation of the holiday season came to an abrupt endamp160 ABC enacted its force majeure provision and terminated some thirty deals including relationships with such stalwarts as Borat39s Larry Charles Brothers ampamp Sisters creator Jon Robin Baitz producing partners Nina Wass ampamp Gene Stein Warner Bros TV is rumored to be next with the macheteamp160 Yet Late Night television roared back to life Letterman39s interim deal with the WGA started the ball rolling with United Artists and The Weinstein Company followed suit But while Leno Kimmel Stewart and Colbert returned sans writing staffs their comedy was muy sympatico to the writers particularly Jon Stewart39s One gets the sense that despite a public frown that the WGA is patting him on the back in the Green Room Comedy Central must be beaming as well Colbert39s ratings are up over 20 across all key demos A new plot twist revealed itself over the weekend the DGA began formal talks with the AMPTPamp160Jack Myers asserts that the Strike quot may be nearing an end if expectations for a quick agreement between producers and the Directors Guild are realizedquot Conversely he holds that quotif Directors fail to reach agreement with network and studio executives it promises a complete collapse of the traditionalHollywood power structurequot amp160Click to read entire commentaryAn unintended consequence of the Strike is the explosion of online video sharing The Pew Internet ampamp American Life Project found that traffic to sites such as YouTube and Reever DOUBLED in 2007 and that there has been a spike overlapping with the strike NewTeeVee reports that entrepreneurialminded striking Alist writers have formed Virtual Artists and are in the process of raising the tidy sum of 30 million for an online video endeavor The article also namedropped other likeminded media plays 60Frames Blowtorch Entertainment and Hollywood Disrupted CES Was The Warmup This week39s MacWorld promises the opening oratory of Apple majordomo Steve Jobs short of his announcing an end to famine global warming a cure for cancer and an end to Fred Thompson39s candidacy His keynote is Tuesday 9am PST Engadget will be LiveBlogging While Apple39s flying high it is facing its first real threat to iTunes with Amazon locking down SonyBMG the last of the major labels to selling DRMfree mp3s in its store and to its nascent AppleTV with Netflix opening up its online streaming as unlimited to all but its lowesttier customers and Mac users ironically BusinessWeek think that Jobs faces an especially uphill battle on this front against cable The End of DRM Isn39t A DoOver For the Music IndustryPostDRM the music industry has been turned on its head The Good News Despite giving away its music last fall Radiohead39s In Rainbows was 1 on last week39s Billboard charts The Bad This as online internet radio fav Pandora was forced to stop streaming to the UK The Badder Still EMI is about to cut 36 of its staff this week or 2000 folksamp160 Haven39t had enough MediaFuturist sees a songwritercomposer strike for 2008Social Networks Mobile FCC Go Primetime 60 Minutes sat down with Facebook39s Mark Zuckerberg last night The podcast of the interview should be up here shortly Meanwhile following in FB39s footsteps fastgrowing social network Bebo launches an open API this weekamp160 There39s little dispute that the June release of the iPhone upended the cellular phone industry Wired has a raw and mostly uncensored look at how the Jesus Phone came to be while GigaOm industry expert Chetan Sharma predicts a disruptive year in mobile what with the Wireless 700 MHz Auction Google Android and WiMax on the horizon as well The FCC attempting to preempt an investigation by the House Energy ampamp Commerce Committee will endeavor to explain We39re all ears Lucy You Got Some Splainin39 To DoFinally pollsters took an historical drubbing when Hillary Clinton bested Obama in New Hampshire despite predictions of an Obama doubledigit lead eMarketer deconstructs how this happened Was it Hillary39s softer side that turned the tide Ed Martin thinks that it was the media that was vaklempt The clip itself is a bonafide phenomenon it39s been viewed over a million times on YouTube alone in six days amp160amp160amp160amp160

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