Obama: The YouTube President

For those of you who attended our breakfast this past Thursday (”The President & The Media: Who’s In Charge Here?) know that President-Elect Barack Obama is not only one of the most technologically saavy people moving into the Oval Office but is already starting to make his presence known on YouTube.

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NY:MIEG Event in Newsday

Special thanks to my buddy Ellis Henican in his column in Newsday today (Sunday Nov. 9, 2008) for a great write-up about our breakfast event this coming Thursday.

RACING AHEAD: Guerrilla blogs, social-network sites, 24-hour cable, print, wires and assorted smashups of each: No wonder Campaign 2008 felt like a breakneck new-media-old-media-any-media collision course! But Brian Reich (EchoDitto), Amanda Michel (Off the Bus), Rachel Sterne (Ground Report) and Michael Oreskes (AP) will measure the skid marks and reveal what’s up ahead at “The Next President and the Media: Who’s Really in Charge,” Thursday, 7:30 a.m., in the Samsung Experience in the Time Warner Center, sponsored by the new-media visionaries at iFOCOS and NY: MIEG.

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Is Hollywood Recession Proof?

From AP via Forbes.com

Hollywood is feeling some impact from the economic downturn, but its famous resilience to recession is kicking in, and analysts remain optimistic.

Even between 2000 and 2001, during the downturn following the Sept. 11 terror attacks and the dot-com boom, consumers’ movie spending - box office, rental receipts and home video purchases combined - rose 10 percent, to $28.4 billion.

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