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		<title>Mad Men Opening Credit Alternatives: Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 16:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone familiar with the iconic opening of the TV series Mad Men will enjoy Funny or Die&#8217;s parody of different opening credits.]]></description>
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		<title>That’s racist, Siri! Funny or Die Video of Racist iPhone Siri.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where&#8217;s the sensitivity upgrade coming for my Siri on my iPhone? Who knew? A funny video by Funny or Die about what it&#8217;d be like if Siri responded with decisions stereotyping African-Americans. Racist Siri &#8211; watch more funny videos]]></description>
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		<title>The final domino to rebuilding a closed content revenue system for telecoms: Close the currently free cable content backdoor to trap users in the paid content system.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 10:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do this by buying, controlling and then linking use of sites like Hulu and its premium content to cable subscriptions. Cable cutting (getting rid of your cable and watching shows online) is increasing. For consumers fed up with high cable bills, why not? Like the saying goes, &#8220;Why buy the cow if you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Empire Strikes Back…six times. The plan to bring mobile data users cable cord cutters back into a closed content system. The “Six Strikes” plan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.intellectualbubblegum.com/?p=4479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The six strikes plan. Many of you have likely forgotten about this, but the telecom and entertainment companies haven&#8217;t.  This is an agreement between industries like Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and other firms to create a procedure to deal with internet users that download copyrighted material. Six warnings, for six end-user infractions with the final [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little too personal, personal ad.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told my friend Strawberry Shortcake about this personal ad. She wasn&#8217;t interested.]]></description>
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		<title>Telecom’s digital revenue and content trap is about to be sprung on consumers later this year. The trap’s three steps.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember those scenes in movies where a devised plot gets portrayed in the clichéd visual symbolism of setting up dominoes? Each component is lined up and readied so, when put into motion, it will topple the others and spring the ultimate trap. Well, the telecom and entertainment companies seem poised to flick those dominoes. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TED Shhhs… Instead of Talks…or TED Talks Sh^%t about being open to ideas.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is an idea in a forum designed for mind-challenging ideas too out there? And if that&#8217;s the case, as much I love TED Talks, your forum&#8217;s purpose is B.S. Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist from Seattle, gave a speech a few months ago at the TED University conference about who he believes are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zappa talks about censorship on Crossfire.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN&#8217;s Crossfire doesn&#8217;t exist anymore. Nor does Frank Zappa (and that&#8217;s a shame). I&#8217;ve seen this clip before, but in the wake of the push to ban gay marriage, I watch it with humor as conservatives back them, in this case, John Lawton, and Democrats like Al and Tipper Gore wanted to use the power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animated time-lapse map of the changes in Europe over the centuries.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An animated look at how Europe has changed over the centuries. It&#8217;s interesting to look and think about all the battles fought to make Europe what it is today.]]></description>
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		<title>True story how Pixar almost deleted all of Toy Story 2 during production.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Movie Vanishes&#8221; is an animated Video that retells how a erase command was accidentally entered into the production computers at Pixar for Toy Story 2. And sheer luck and a baby made it possible to rebuild it. A reminder to back up your data folks. &#160;]]></description>
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