Why "Obama's Mac" to "Hillary's PC" Is Just the Beginning of a Paradigm Shift In Business & Media - MediaBizBuzz for March 31, 2008

Last month The New York Times parsed the appeal of both Democratic presidential campaigners Positing that Obama was a Mac and Clinton a PC While the article was superficial it had a spine Two stories wound me back to the discussion and deepened it A look at CoreBrand39s Power 100 on AllThingsD and how the Mac ads just might have contributed to Microsoft cratering and Fast Company39s April cover story The Brand That Is Obama In brief Obama39s success is attributed to three qualities openness authenticity and the need for a global brand image We learn that Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes took a sabbatical from the social network and is no small reason why Barack39s Web 20 Within the frontrunner39s touted as an quotOpen Brandquot a locus of quotadaptive leadershipquot It39s also duly noted that while corporate America seats less than onethird AfricanAmericans on its boards women are more underrepresented at 15 Hillary39s candidacy should stand for a paradigm shift but instead at this point after a week of party elders admonishing her to concede the nomination Slate39s instituted The Hillary Deathwatch It should be a widget Takeaway Last week39s stock market volatility the Fed bailout indeed moves in music video journalism ought to be apprised in this prism Often it39s the difference between businessasusual made to look shiny and new and true innovation See if you can spot the difference Brother Can You Spare A BillionThe financial sector is still in the tank And the Fed39s bailout of Bear Stearns has given way to Congressional investigations If we can prop up an investment bank goes the thinking why not the subprime mortage foreclosures Last week the Bush administration spoke of quotovercorrectionsquot now it39s warming to the writedown of principal Look for less and less daylight between its plans and the Democratic majority39s In the midst of all this BusinessWeek kindly validates Henry Blodget39s parking pass Change of HeartAfter months of rancor Comcast agreed to treat all data files as equal even going so far as to enter into some sort of partnership with BitTorrent FCC head Kevin Martin commended the policy change cautioning that he39d be monitoring its network management practices until the projected endofyear about face Massachusetts Rep Ed Markey is even more resolute about the need for Net Neutrality While pundits lauded its 180 Comcast is not without motive I simply think it has bigger fish to fry including a filing alleging with some reason that the FCC is biased towards telcos Vuze which filed a white paper against Comcast this past winter is offering tools to the consumer to help them detect if their ISP is throttling traffic by looking for quotreset packagesquot If only making up were that simple for Barry Diller and John Malone In a surprise decision does this sound like a prizefight a Delaware judge ruled that Diller had legal standing to break up IAC into five separate entities The decision does not prevent a Malone endgame PaidContent follows the tale the ruling and the whole damn soap opera Nature abhors a vacuum If the DillerMalone teteatete is over or at intermission Electronic Arts39 hostile takeover of TakeTwo Interactive in the world of gaming is getting ugly Seems like the prey is taking a page from Yahoo39s efforts to stave off Microsoft Its winning strategy The offer is quotfair but inadequatequot At Long Last XM and SiriusThirteen months is the longest the DoJ39s ever spent investigating a merger Now that39s a done deal FCC approval is expected lickety split The Financial Times looks at why the deal isn39t deemed an antitrust violation Fortune cheerleads Mel Karmazin39s edict to raise satellite39s ad revenues from 4 to 10 Elsewhere in the land of music FLUX Clear Channel39s buyout by Thomas H Lee and Mitt39s Bain Capital is given legal oomph even as it told the SEC that the deal might collapse Reaction to Warner39s trial balloon for a 5month quotmusic surchargequot for ISP subscribers has been variously condemned as extortion and bemusedly supported as a way to move the music industry out of the Dark Ages Of note Rhapsody takes no offense to MySpace39s JV branded quotHulu for musicquot while Silicon Alley Insider wonders why they39re spinning off their core business BTW Six months out Amazon39s DRMmusic store is now 2 behind venerable iTunes Print Travels Coach Online39s Still Figuring It OutOut of Print Eric Alterman39s analysis of print journalism in last week39s New Yorker comes as newspapers reported the worst ad revenue drop in fifty years While online ad sales grew 19 its piece of the pie is still triffling The Times reports that major pubs like USA Today and the Boston Globe owned by the Times can39t afford to send reporters out on the political trail Erick Schonfeld who left Time Inc looks at his first six months as a TechCrunch blogger while the Times amps up the rivalry between paidContent39s Rafat Ali and TechCrunch39s Michael Arrington Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff cries foul as a commentor opining that it39s a false dichotomy So I don39t have to Video Which Approach Wins the DayHulu39s looking good According to Nielsen in its last month of beta it got 17 million uniques Where it really impressed was engagement 55 minutesmonth per average user that39s above MTVN NBCU ABC and ESPN NBCU had 100M reasons to celebrate its FX deal to broadcast its 2008 slate but in 2830 months Mark Cuban on the other hand aired Flawless unlike Bubble solid ratings on Rotten Tomatoes on HDNet two days before its theatrical release Not everyone39s happy about the Digital TV transition the Community Broadcasters Association think the digital TV transition39s a quotdeath sentencequot for the 2600 lowpowered stations many of whom will find the cost to ditch analog prohibitive WSJ subscription req39d TechCrunch39s Schonfeld earns his keep by offering this intriguing analysis postulating the future of TV ad serving by marrying the best parts of blinx and Spot Runner Jeff Zucker39s gotten a lot of buzz over his video recapping My Name Is Earl While LA Weekly39s Nikke Finke has drawn up committment papers our own Ed Martin finds it charmingly selfdeprecating Decide for yourselfTomorrow TodayThe Virtual Worlds Conference this coming April 3rd and 4th promises to be a fascinating gathering at the intersection of technology and media Jack Myers will be on the panel Virtual Worlds By The Numbers Today and The Future this Thursday and Jerry Weinstein will be stalking the Javits To Infinity and Beyond

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