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Each morning, Alfred Sirleaf combs through the day’s news and writes headlines and stories on a giant chalkboard. It’s the world’s least likely, most popular blog.

As information industries struggle, they grasp at anything to protect their turf. The result is that we all suffer.

Amidst an uncertain landscape for newspaper publishers, The New York Times, the paper of record, continues to build a digital enterprise that includes an astonishing number of blogs (70); a continuous news feed (Times Wire), and a first-rate video operation that collectively brings 20 million or so unique visitors a month to NYTimes.com

In taking a look at today’s most creative advertising, like Crispin Porter’s Burger King Campaign, it is clear that entertainment companies are playing it too safe. The problem is systemic, entertainment has followed the same credo for years of fishing where the fish are, relying on the same customer base of frequent movie goers for its revenues.

Register to attend our next live video webcast, a sit down interview with Betsy Morgan, former CEO of The Huffington Post and Avner Ronen, the opinionated founder of Boxee, a fast-growing media aggregation and social networking startup.

As video reaches into all sectors of the media space, content, the technology, the devices, the infrastructure, the entire way that companies and groups, large and small approach their work will and are now altering.

Internet delivered video has not only entered the advertising space, it has invaded it and in a very short number of years, Internet delivered video will be a dominant entertainment and communications consumer medium.

Traditional television is moving to the Internet. Though today’s consumer can effectively avoid watching advertising on TV through new time- and place-shifting technologies, the “opt-out” function and other choices make it easier than ever for consumers to skip ads online too.

A new parody to sung to the theme of American Pie takes down the media industry.

The next generation of technology within the digital home will bring with it not only more content to the consumer, it will bring with it greater choice and more individual personalization into the process.