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Sicko and The Namesake
Went to see “Sicko” last night – Moore spins his magic, if not the story, again. The Cuba segments toward the end are a little much – other than that, another emotionally charged and relevant contribution. A few weeks before we saw “The Namesake” and thoroughly enjoyed it.
A week or so ago I attended the “Future of Entertainment” conference at Stanford’s Graduate Business School. The panels were interesting and I particulary enjoyed the comments from Digg’s CEO. There is a business opportunity at Digg that has yet to be realized and I hope they get there before StumbleUpon, Delicious or others do – email me Digg if you want to discuss. Most interesting was the keynote from Kevin Tsujihara, President, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Kevin totally gets the intersection of media and technology. With Walmart, Blockbuster, Netflix, Amazon and Apple all taking a slice of the profits from the studios and the networks – what prevents them from calling up Cisco or IBM and placing an order for a full featured, end-to-end digital distribution system? History tells us that every time a content provider can find another distribution window to monetize their content then more money is made – what’s stopping them now?