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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funny Conference

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So I’m sitting at Starbucks at 3, and I’ll be on stage in about 33 minutes. My presentation looks perhaps like a hotdog long before it takes that edible, if somewhat phallic, shape. Despite my morning’s panic attack, missing a flight and driving the 7 hours to Boston, I manage to catch YouTube Hall-of-Famer Michael Buckley…

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Pearl is Back with Will Ferrell. For the Last Time. :(

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Landlord Pearl now plays Lieutenant Pearl in the latest FunnyorDie video featuring Will Ferrell. It’s called “Good Cop, Baby Copy,” but it’s unfortunately her last video. FunnyorDie is a collaboration between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay (who directed Ferrell in “Anchorman,” and “Talladega Nights” and wrote for him for “Saturday Night Live”). Michael Kvamme, a partner at…

Red Giant Shows Viral Video Can Still Work

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Red Giant software showed that, despite the horrific odds, a company can still produce great entertainment that also promotes a product… it helps that the product includes software effects for videos. Source: Mashable. It’s gotten 500K plus views on Vimeo, which I’d say represents about a 50% penetration to its target market (artistic video creators)….

Will Beg for Votes

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So I’ve made the finals of this Valleywag poll. Can you spare a vote? I think it would be really funny if I won because, well, I’m not hot. Shhh. Don’t tell my wife. I think I have her fooled. No need to acknowledge whether I’m not or not. I’d prefer awkward silence. Oh- and…

Best Buy Goes Walmart

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Business Week wrote about Best Buy’s increasing influence, which worries several major electronics companies (not the least of which are those formerly of Circuit City). Seems Best Buy’s influence is beginning to take a Walmart tone. “We used to call them the 800-pound gorilla,” says the executive of one company that sells televisions and other…

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