UNITY VS. "The Unitary Theory of the Executive": An 'Open Source' Philosophy Of Government, Commerce & Innovation - MediaBizBuzz for June 30

If last week were a novel it39d be a pageturning summer blockbuster It all began on Monday with the return of eminence grise Jim Hansen twenty years to the day since he first testified before Congress on Global Warming And it ended with Bill Gates riding off into the philanthropic sunset as the stock market took a nosedive In between there were a raft of Supreme Court decisions among them the unbanning of DC39s handgun ban and the disallowing of punitive damages for ExxonValdez not to mention the joint appearance of Obama and Clinton in too onthenose Unity New Hampshire Challenging the dominant and proprietary hold of WindowsMobile RIM and Apple Nokia bought out Symbian vowing to offer its OS free by 2010 not quite Linuxopensource but still a vast improvement on how mobile biz is done Publicis too is changing the game putting together an ad network with the four big ad servers AOLPlatform A GoogleDoubleClick Yahoo and Microsoft viewing the effort as complementary Not that binary thinking was by any means obsolete Vice President Cheney39s Chief of Staff David Addington appeared before Congress and he could not have been more contemptuous going so far as to deny any grasp much less ownership of the quottheory of the unitary executivequot And not even five months after the end of the Writers Strike Hollywood is again on tenderhooks with tonight39s midnight SAG strike deadline Consider Isn39t finding common ground in our best interestamp160Is It Warm In Here Or Is It Just MeJim Hansen pulled no punches during his Monday appearance before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming going so far as to charge Big Coal with crimes against humanity In parallel the Aspen Global Change Institute presented Forecast 2030 Planning for a Change in Climate where Dr Lisa Goddard admitted that it39s easier to predict longterm models over short Andrew Revkin who covers the climate change beat for the New York Times in his Dot Earth blog has an evenhanded piece on what39s really happening to the sea ice at the North Pole For an insider39s account of Jim Hansen39s tempestuous tenure at NASA check out journalist Mark Bowen39s Censoring Science And it39s noteworthy that while Hansen couldn39t shame the Senate into passing its global warming bill California under Gov Schwarzenegger39s leadership is moving forward with its own capandtrade plan Open The GatesMuch ado over Bill Gates39 adieu at MSFT The Economist39s cover story is a bit squishy trumpeting Live Mesh as an astute way to challenge Google39s foray into cloud computing color me unconvinced Reuters looks at Gates39 successor Steve Ballmer he of the quotscaryquot management style according to a Gartner analyst VentureBeat reports that MSFT has acquired Powerset which uses natural language processing in search for 100M TechCrunch asserts quotnot yet it hasn39tquot The SF Chronicle looks at the Gates Foundation and its laserlike focus on health Earlier this year Fortune profiled Melinda Gates the great woman behind the man And oh yeah today39s the last day you can get your hands on XP The Revolution Is Being TelevisedThis year Emmy let us see them making the sausages to some extent Perhaps to distract from Strike Talk or hype the start of Awards season the Emmys announced their shortlist for drama and comedy nominees instantly creating discussion around snubbed shows and stars Leaving Battlestar Galactica off the list will be apocalyptic news to many and How I Met Your Mother39s absence explain that to the comedy gods But in all fairness if either Damages or Mad Men receive the nod it39ll be a first for basic cable Despite coverage to the contrary it appears that SAG is not moving towards a Strike Authorization Vote LA Weekly39s Nikke Finke had that scoop on Sunday which was confirmed by SAG prexy Alan Rosenberg Might George Clooney be of service A Magna Global study is parsed six ways to Sunday MediaWeek dutifully reports that DVR usage now accounts for nine percent of national ratings Silicon Alley Insider has a more sobering takeaway For the first year the average age of the TV viewer is now a mature FiveOh too old for advertisers Analysts ask Was that ViacomCBS split wrongheaded The Bernstein white paper is entitled A Bad Plan Poorly Executed no less Should Sumner take the company private Hitwise reports that for four weeks in a row PBS has overtaken all broadcast networks online It has 2423 audience share with ABC following at 1935 Either tweens are ogling Jim Lehrer or this confounds exactly who watches TV online Speaking of which since we find outselves migrating to online video our Shelly Palmer offers standards for a quality online viewing experience PaidContent39s Rafat Ali has issues with NBC39s Olympic broadcast policies According to the AP quotno video of Olympic events is permitted to be shown on any website besides NBCOlympicscomquot said clips will be available online until after they are seen on TV Looks like commerce trumps the promise of global fraternite And Recession be damned the cable upfronts rake in 8B up 810 over last year Mobile39s On the GoBusinessWeek has Kudos for the iPhone for jumpstarting the smartphone market Thanks to it39s validation of the space there39s momentum for all sorts of deals Among them BW deems the Nokia acquisition of Symbian shrewd noting that it will create healthy competition not only between WindowsMobile RIM and Apple but for Android Google39s hotly anticipated open source mobile platform Virgin Mobile USA snaps up Helio for 39M in stock MocoNewsnet has an interview with Virgin39s Dan Schulman on said acquisition The generally astute TechDirt thinks that this is the nail in the coffin for MVNOsYes Virginia even headtohead rivals can come together Following the lead of the Markle Foundation MSFT Google AARP Consumers Union WebMd MedicAlert and BlueCross BlueShield have agreed on a set of principles for privacy standards to protect patients39 information beating Congress to the punch as that body begins debating electronic pesonal health records Would this have been possible if Gates hadn39t seen the bigger picture in World Health

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