Around the Creative World (9/31/09)
August 31st, 2009
This is Around the Creative World for your Monday, August 31st, 2009. I’m your host, Brian Laesch. I’ll now pause for station identification break:
You’re listening to the Eleventh Hour: the world beyond recruiting blog. Number one in Marina Del Rey since 2008.
OK, we’re back…
- Disney has acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.
- Noww u cain support edumacation threw Sonic’s nu “Limeades for Learning” program. Itz 2 leight 4 me. Help this future.
- Speaking of education (seriously this time), according to AdAge: Wikipedia Goes Offline to Help Rural Students in Peru
- Fox and Twitter hopes you are ready for “tweet-peats” (encore presentations of shows with cast and crew members simultaneously “tweeting” about the show). Sell now, Twitter. I’m just sayin’…
- New random television spot from Old Spice and W+K Portland: Scents for Gents
- Captain Morgan: Converting heavy uncontrolled substance users to rum consumers?
- Could the LA fires cause a partial TV/radio blackout? According to Variety, the LA fires threaten broadcast transmission towers on Mt. Wilson.
- Final Destination 36…I mean, The Final Destination, topped the weekend box office.
- Did I mention Eleventh Hour is on Twitter? (So am I.)
- Stan Schroeder of Mashable: The Internet About to Turn 40, Last Seen With a Blonde in a Red Corvette
- TechCrunch: Facebook still isn’t as good as the company it just bought (FriendFeed).
Brian Laesch is a blogger for Eleventh Hour and Social Media Manager for The Rundown.
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