It’s good to be back in blog-land after the Christmas holidays. Quiet times are over, 2008 is here, and it started off making quite a bit of noise. For those of you who haven’t been following my del.icio.us bookmarks, here is a quick summary of the most important developments I have been tracking:
- No Golden Globes: The WGA Strike, in co-operation with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is responisble for this casualty, which ist going to cost LA north of USD. The networks will not be screening the “ceremony”, which is basically going to be a press conference. No parties, no lavish dresses, no nothing. NBC is also going back to the advertisers to possibly give them their money back – and will possibly be losing over USD $10 Million that way. WOW! More evidence in my book that the writers mean business, and that they are getting one leap further to having their demands (or at least a good chunk of them) met.
- Talk Shows are back. Leno, Letterman, Conan O’Brien and The Daily Show have returned, mostly without writers. The ratings were good for the first screenings, but whether or not they can hold their audience remains to be seen…
- Fox Films wants to release their content for rent via iTunes. Finally!
- Remember MC Hammer? He wants to build a YouTube-like platform for dance videos only. Hmmmm… 3 guesses what I am thinking about that. (leave them in the comments).
I also have some very important news of my own, but I will post those at the end of the week. Stay tuned!
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Right, you gave 3 guesses on the MC Hammer thing, but i think i only need one.
Now, while normally creating a site “just like ________, but different because it will only have ________” would raise the question “why reinvent the wheel?”, but in this case the wheel is wearing parachute pants, and those cool round glasses, and there will be hammer time! and better yet, people would be able to upload their own awesome should-have-been-forgotten in the 90′s dance hits too.
I think the Inevitable Vanilla Ice impersonators section will silence any critics of this idea.
Seriously, it’s an astonishingly bad idea, not just because of MCHammer inspired dance videos, but because there is already a perfectly good system for sharing videos, called YouTube, and there is a perfectly good system for talking about them, called Blogging. Let MCHammer do what he does, um, best. To use an oft – repeated analogy, Porsche doesn’t build a new road system parallel to the normal one just because its cars go faster.