Another day, another Jersey Shore post. For those of you who have never seen the original video which the above parodies (Brother, I’m speaking directly to you. By the way: Heyyyy, Brother) check it out below. Both are awesome in their own right.

Update: I can’t figure out how to embed from Funny or Die and the YouTube vid was taken down so go check it out here!

Tu 1/5 – W 1/6, Th 1/7 – Su 1/10
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
110,000 expected, 2500 exhibitors, 800 speakers, 250 conference sessions incl Digital Hollywood, Connections, and Digital Media Wire, it’s the largest digital media event of the year!
Las Vegas Convention Center, Hilton, Venetian, spanning the Las Vegas Strip
www.cesweb.org

Tu 1/5
12-4, V Titian 2202, LVCC S229 – press room open
1:30, V Murano 3301-3 – ASUS press event
2-3, V Bellini 2105 – CEA US Trends
3-4, V Bellini 2105 – CEA Global Trends
4-7, V Ballroom – CES Unveiled: Best Buy, Hannspree, Lenovo, Powermat…
7-10, Sands Expo shuttle – StartUp Debut – VCs, press, eats, drinks,startupdebut@gmail.com

W 1/6
7:30-9, V Titian 2202, LVCC S229 -press room open
8-8:45, V Casanova 501 – LG press event
9-9:45, V Marco Polo 706 – Monster press event, V Sands 201 Netgear press event
10-10:45, V Casanova 504 – Toshiba press event
11-11:45, V Sands 206 Pioneer press event
12-12:45, V Sands 102 – Sharp press event
1-1:45, V Bellini 2105 – Casio press event
2-2:45, V Marco Polo 801 – Samsung press event
3-3:45, V Marco Polo 705 – JVC press event
3-3:45, V Bellini 2101 – Panasonic press event
*****
8-10:30, LVCC N262 P2P Breakfast, N260 Paramount, BitTorrent, N262 Snacks
11:30-12:30, LVCC N261 NVP Saatchi,N253 SpikeTV BBDO MTV,N258 A&E, TwitVid
12:30, LVCC N262 Lunch
1-2, LVCC N253 Lego, IMVU, Gaia, WW Biggies, N258 IODA, Napster
1:30-2:15, LVCC N260 Melike Amjarv, WB, BMI, SAG
2:30-3:30, LVCC N258 Discovery, Paramount, N253 ngmoco, N261 NBCU, MTV
3:30-4:15, LVCC N256 Qualcomm, Ericsson
4-5, LVCC N253 Viximo WB,N258 Fandango, Flixster, Freeverse,N261 TiVo
5-7:30, LVCC N262 P2P Cocktails
4:15-5:30, LVCC Central Hall 14200 – Sony press event
6:30-7:30, Hilton Center – Keynote – Steve Ballmer, Microsoft

Th 1/7
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
8:30, Hilton Theater – Keynote, Alan Mulally, Ford
10-6, Exhibit Hours
10-12, Hilton Shimmer Cabaret – Jen-Hsung Huang, NVIDIA press event
10-11, LVCC S227 DISH press event, S224 4G Verizon, Samsung, Clearwire
10-12, LVCC N250* Autonet, Pandora
10:30, LVCC N264* CEA Outlook, , N255* Kodak, Scoble
10:30-11:30, LVCC N256 AVOD, TiVo, Panasonic, N259 DISH, Merv Griffin, Starz
11-12, LVCC N253* ABC, LeapFrog, Vtech, Build-A-Bear, Lunch
11:20-12:10, LVCC N260* 3D – WB, Disney, CinemaNOW, Dolby
12-1, LVCC N254 Autonet, N259 Hearst, Rovi, N262* WaPo, N256 Roku, Z, Intel
12-1, LVCC S224 EA, RIM, ATT, TI, Sony
12:20-1:10+, LVCC N260* 3D RealD, LG, Panasonic, Sony, N253* MyYearbook
1:30-2:15+, LVCC N250* CBS counting viewers, N262* CBS, Pampelmoose
1:30-2:30, LVCC N259 Lionsgate, YouTube, FB, Fox, Disc, N261 Fremantle
2-3, LVCC N253* Cartoon Network, PBS, Nokia
2:30-3:20, LVCC N260* Y!, NBCU, Vizio, WB, DIVX
3-4, LVCC N259 Interactive – Sony, Sharp, Y!, N256 LG, Samsung, Sharp, Panasonic
3-4, LVCC S224 Netbooks – Lenovo, Laptop Mag, Intel, Microsoft, AMD
3-5, LVCC N253* Toy Demos, KAPi Awards – Sesame Workshop
3:45-4:30, LVCC N250 Monetizing Content – Tubefilter, FOD, NBCU, CJP
4:30-5:30, LVCC N250* CESup Search – TiVo, CBS, CTAM
4:30-5:30, Hilton Theater – Keynote, Paul Otelini, Intel
5-6, LVCC S227 – Sanyo press event
6-7, LVCC N237* CESup Reception
7-9, LVCC MGM shuttle* Tour of CBS Television City
6-10, Wynn Lafite Ballroom – Showstoppers (invite only)
6:30, Mandalay Bay – Tech & Engineering Emmy’s, events@emmyonline.tv

F 1/8
TBD AllThingsD short program
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
8:30-9, LVCC N250* Ben Silverman, Electus
9-10:15, LVCC N250*Illeana Douglas, Thomas Schlamme,ShoeMoney,NBCU
9-11, LVCC N262* MommyTech-GMA, Tina Sharkey, BabyCenter, N260 HBO
9, Hilton Theater, Keynote – Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia
9-6, Exhibit Hours
10:30-11:30, LVCC N250* Scripps, NBCU, N253* EnergyTech
11, Hilton Theater, Keynote – Dr Paul E Jacobs, Qualcomm
11:30-12:30, LVCC N250* Ken Howard, SAG, Sony, LG, Nielsen
12-1, LVCC N262* Lunch – MySpace, N255* FCC Chair, N261 Bravo, N259 FLO TV
12-1, LVCC S225 Powermat, S224 Handango, ATT, Intel, Samsung
1-2, LVCC N262* Mommy Memorykeepers – Eye-Fi, N255* CinemaNow
1:30-2:30+, LVCC N262*OnStar,Fox,N261 Z, Arts&Labs,N259 Metacafe,Redbox,JWT
1:30-2:30, LVCC S224 Untethering TV – Qualcomm, Broadcom, Sony
3-4, LVCC S224 ION, FLO TV, MobiTV, NatGeo, LG, S225 Samsung
3-4, LVCC N260 GPS Garmin, TomTom, N261 Lionsgate, MSNBC, N259 Blip.tv
3:30-4:15-5, LVCC N262* Marketing to Digital Moms/Gala Product Showcase – Kodak
4, Hilton Theater – Keynote – Zhou Houjian, Hisense
4:30, LVCC South Hall EHX CE PRO reception
6-7, LVCC North Hall – Kenwood press event
*****
3, V Casanova 501 – Shuttle press event, wearenotalienbware.com
3-7:30, V Ballrooms 3001-3101, Digital Media Insider
3:15, CES scoop – CEA, Parks, Intepret, Wired.com, Ogilvy 360
4, Distribution – Oxygen, MyDamnChannel, CMSG, redbox, withoutabox
5, Monetization – NVP, Vindica, IBM
5:45, Keynote
6:15 – 7:30, Awards for 25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment

• David Anderman, General Counsel, Lucasfilm
• Rob Barnett, Founder & CEO, My Damn Channel
• Rio Caraeff, President & CEO, VEVO
• Kevin Conroy, President, Univision Interactive Media
• Allen DeBevoise, Chairman & CEO, Machinima Inc.
• Denzyl Feigelson, CEO, AWAL (Artists Without a Label)
• Ashley Fenwick-Naditch, Producer, Sesame Workshop
• Kristin Frank, General Manager, MTV.com and VH1.com
• Ed Leonard, CTO, DreamWorks
• Zahavah Levine, Chief Counsel, YouTube
• Mitch Lowe, CEO, redbox
• Robb McDaniels, Founder, President & CEO, INgrooves
• Tero Ojanpera, EVP, Services, Nokia
• Jean-Briac Perrette, President, Content Distribution Strategy, NBCU
• Mark Pincus, CEO & Founder, Zynga
• John Pleasants, CEO, Playdom
• Nanea Reeves, SVP, EA Online Group
• Rohit Bhargava, SVP, Digital Strategy & Marketing, Ogilvy 360
  (Author, Personality Not Included)
• Avner Ronen, CEO, Boxee
• Richard Rosenblatt, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Demand Media
• Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook
• David Straus, Co-Founder & CEO, Withoutabox (IMDB/Amazon)
• Robert Tercek, President, Digital Media, OWN
• Phil Wiser, Co-Founder, Chairman & President, Sezmi
• Philip Yun, CEO, NHN USA

Sa 1/9
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
9-6, Exhibit Hours
10:30-11:30, LVCC S224 Revision3, N261 Big Fuel, N255* Last Gadget Standing
11, LVCC South Hall Lobby 3 CNET Stage – Best of CES
12-1, LVCC N260 Napster
1:30-2:30, LVCC N258 Warren Packard, DFJ, Kuk Yi, Best Buy, S224 Sprint, Comcast
2:15-5:30, LVCC N253* Silvers Summit Gadgets – Fox
3-4, LVCC N260 Netbooks – Harris Interactive

Su 1/10
8-3, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
9-4, Exhibit Hours

*FREE
**Shuttles:  http://cesweb.org/docs/2010_CES_Shuttle_Map_for_CESweb.pdf
***Maps: www.cesweb.org/exhibits/facilities/default.asp,  http://www.cesweb.org/docs/2010_CES_Show_Locations_Map.pdf
*** Parties:  http://www.thomas-pr.com/01/ces2010.html

This is it!  The last week of conferences for the year and what a way to go out. Digital Living Room will be celebrating connected devices at Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara tomorrow and on Wednesday HRTS is lunching with the showrunners of Modern Family, Glee, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother and Rescue Me at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Try catching the stream if you can’t make it live.  Below are the guides to these events as well as CES which is now just around the corner:

Tu 12/15
DIGITAL LIVING ROOM
PSN, Sezmi, Epix, Y!, ZillionTV, Vimeo, ClipSync, Dolby, Panasonic..
Sun Microsystems, 4030 George Sellon Circle, Santa Clara 95054
12/14 Tech Supper Club-SF, Blumberg Capital, 580 Howard
12/15 Tech Supper Club-Santa Clara
12/16 Tech Supper Club-Santa Monica, Playground Media, 1813 Centinela
www.digitallivingroom.com

8:45  Welcoming Remarks

9:00  Competitive Landscape
An examination of how cable, satellite and telco providers are faring in the pitched battle for consumers.
- Ben Bajarin, Director of Consumer Technology, Creative Strategies
- Colin Dixon, Senior Analyst, The Diffusion Group

10:00  Keynote
- Susan Panico, Senior Director, PlayStation Network

10:30  3D’s Televised Future
3D television sets will be on display at this year’s CES, and models without glasses may be just a few years away. Jeffrey Katzenberg, for one, has said that 3D TV is inevitable.
- Joshua Greer, President and Co-Founder, RealD
- John Rubey, President, AEG Live
- Patrick Griffis, Senior Director, Technology Policy, Dolby Laboratories Inc.
- David Broberg, Vice President of Consumer Video Technology, CableLabs

11:30  Social TV
The connected living room makes seamless the interaction consumers are already having about their favorite programming over the Internet and on mobile devices. How long until Facebook Television?
- Blake Whitman, Community Director, Vimeo
- Itzik Cohen, founder and CEO, ClipSync
- Emil Rensing, Chief Digital Officer, EpixHD
- Bill Binenstock, Vice President and Manager, CBS.com
- Moderator: Michael Stroud, Founder, iHollywood Forum

12:30  Lunch

1:30- 2  Keynote
- William O. Leszinske, Jr., GM, Digital Home Group, Intel

2  Cloud in the Living Room
The ability to access any content, any time is fundamentally changing the dynamics of television watching and the economics of broadcasting and cable. As DVRs and subscription VOD become standard, are ad-supported television networks at a fundamental disadvantage? Can cable and satellite companies keep their iron group on the consumer’s wallet when a la carte offerings are available over the Internet?
- Pat Dunbar, Director, Advertising TV, Video & Music Business Group, Microsoft Corporation
- Mitch Berman, Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, ZillionTV
- Mitch Weinraub, Executive Director – Business Development, Comcast Media Center
- Rob Schonfeld, VP, Pay Television and Interactive Media, Disney ABC Domestic Television
- Buno Pati, Co-Founder and CEO, Sezmi
- Moderator: Jimmy Schaeffler, Chairman & CSO, The Carmel Group

3  The Music Powered Living Room
Description: The music business has gone from wondering where the next paycheck is to how many ways can the same song be monetized. The new album is the Rock Star music pack and the new single is a mashup. This panel will explore how interactive music technology – from video games to mashups – are creating new revenue opportunities for the music, video game, video entertainment and marketing industries.
- Gilles Babinet, Chairman, MXP4
- Jason Henderson, Games Product Manager, Verizon Communications
- Jordan Greenhall, Co-Founder and former CEO, DivX
- Carmen Rizzo, two-time Grammy Nominee and electronic musician
- Moderator: Ephraim Cohen, President, Fortex Group

4  The Connected Living Room
The long-heralded integration between TVs, the broadband Internet, DVD players, game consoles, telephony, portable devices and wireless data is beginning to happen. What type of content will pull in consumers and what are the roadblocks to mass adoption?
- Russ Schafer, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Yahoo! Connected TV
- Alan Hoff, Vice President of Product Marketing, SeaChange International
- David Bryant, Senior Director of Java Marketing, Sun Microsystems
- Tushar Saxena, Director of Home Networking Technologies, Verizon Communications
- Moderator: Amy Friedlander Hoffman, President, Priority Digital Media

5  Venture Forum
Startups pitch products for the digital living room to a panel of venture capitalists and strategic investors
- Len Rand, Managing Director, Granite Ventures
- Brad McManus, Director of Investments, Panasonic
- David J. Blumberg, Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital

6  Reception

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W 12/16  12-2
HRTS HITMAKERS LUNCHEON
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles
www.hrts.org
(1pm Live-stream: HRTS Online Video Central)

• Peter Tolan, Rescue Me
• Matthew Weiner, Mad Men
• Steven Levitan, Modern Family
• Ryan Murphy, Glee, Nip/Tuck
• Carter Bays, How I Met Your Mother
• Craig Thomas, How I Met Your Mother
  

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Th 12/17 6-9
SGN MOBCLIX MIXER
Silicon Valley
(invite only)

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Tu 1/5 – W 1/6, Th 1/7 – Su 1/10
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW
110,000 expected, 2500 exhibitors, 800 speakers, 250 conference sessions incl Digital Hollywood, Connections, and Digital Media Wire, it’s the largest digital media event of the year!
Las Vegas Convention Center, Hilton, Venetian..
www.cesweb.org

Tu 1/5
12-4, V Titian 2202, LVCC S229 – press room open
1:30, V Murano 3301-3 – ASUS press event
2-3, V Bellini 2105 – CEA US Trends
3-4, V Bellini 2105 – CEA Global Trends
4-7, V Ballroom – CES Unveiled: Best Buy, Hannspree, Lenovo, Powermat…
7-10, Sands Expo shuttle – StartUp Debut – VCs, press, eats, drinks, startupdebut@gmail.com

W 1/6
7:30-9, V Titian 2202, LVCC S229 -press room open
8-8:45, V Casanova 501 – LG press event
9-9:45, V Marco Polo 706 – Monster press event, V Sands 201 Netgear press event
10-10:45, V Casanova 504 – Toshiba press event
11-11:45, V Sands 206 Pioneer press event
12-12:45, V Sands 102 – Sharp press event
1-1:45, V Bellini 2105 – Casio press event
2-2:45, V Marco Polo 801 – Samsung press event
3-3:45, V Marco Polo 705 – JVC press event
3-3:45, V Bellini 2101 – Panasonic press event
*****
8-10:30, LVCC N262 P2P Breakfast, N260 Paramount, BitTorrent, N262 Snacks
11:30-12:30, LVCC N261 NVP Saatchi,N253 SpikeTV BBDO MTV,N258 A&E, TwitVid
12:30, LVCC N262 Lunch
1-2, LVCC N253 Lego, IMVU, Gaia, WW Biggies, N258 IODA, Napster
1:30-2:15, LVCC N260 Melike Amjarv, WB, BMI, SAG
2:30-3:30, LVCC N258 Discovery, Paramount, N253 ngmoco, N261 NBCU, MTV
3:30-4:15, LVCC N256 Qualcomm, Ericsson
4-5, LVCC N253 Viximo WB,N258 Fandango, Flixster, Freeverse,N261 TiVo
5-7:30, LVCC N262 P2P Cocktails
4:15-5:30, LVCC Central Hall 14200 – Sony press event
6:30-7:30, Hilton Center – Keynote – Steve Ballmer, Microsoft

Th 1/7
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
8:30, Hilton Theater – Keynote, Alan Mulally, Ford
10-6, Exhibit Hours
10-12, Hilton Shimmer Cabaret – Jen-Hsung Huang, NVIDIA press event
10-11, LVCC S227 DISH press event, S224 4G Verizon, Samsung, Clearwire
10-12, LVCC N250* Autonet, Pandora
10:30, LVCC N264* CEA Outlook, , N255* Kodak, Scoble
10:30-11:30, LVCC N256 AVOD, TiVo, Panasonic, N259 DISH, Merv Griffin, Starz
11-12, LVCC N253* ABC, LeapFrog, Vtech, Build-A-Bear, Lunch
11:20-12:10, LVCC N260* 3D – WB, Disney, CinemaNOW, Dolby
12-1, LVCC N254 Autonet, N259 Hearst, Rovi, N262* WaPo, N256 Roku, Z, Intel
12-1, LVCC S224 EA, RIM, ATT, TI, Sony
12:20-1:10+, LVCC N260* 3D RealD, LG, Panasonic, Sony, N253* MyYearbook
1:30-2:15+, LVCC N250* CBS counting viewers, N262* CBS, Pampelmoose
1:30-2:30, LVCC N259 Lionsgate, YouTube, FB, Fox, Disc, N261 Fremantle
2-3, LVCC N253* Cartoon Network, PBS, Nokia
2:30-3:20, LVCC N260* Y!, NBCU, Vizio, WB, DIVX
3-4, LVCC N259 Interactive – Sony, Sharp, Y!, N256 LG, Samsung, Sharp, Panasonic
3-4, LVCC S224 Netbooks – Lenovo, Laptop Mag, Intel, Microsoft, AMD
3-5, LVCC N253* Toy Demos, KAPi Awards – Sesame Workshop
3:45-4:30, LVCC N250 Monetizing Content – Tubefilter, FOD, NBCU, CJP
4:30-5:30, LVCC N250* CESup Search – TiVo, CBS, CTAM
4:30-5:30, Hilton Theater – Keynote, Paul Otelini, Intel
5-6, LVCC S227 – Sanyo press event
6-7, LVCC N237* CESup Reception
7-9, LVCC MGM shuttle* Tour of CBS Television City
6-10, Wynn Lafite Ballroom – Showstoppers (invite only)
6:30, Mandalay Bay – Tech & Engineering Emmy’s, events@emmyonline.tv

F 1/8
TBD AllThingsD short program
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
8:30-9, LVCC N250* Ben Silverman, Electus
9-10:15, LVCC N250*Illeana Douglas, Thomas Schlamme,ShoeMoney,NBCU
9-11, LVCC N262* MommyTech-GMA, Tina Sharkey, BabyCenter, N260 HBO
9, Hilton Theater, Keynote – Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia
9-6, Exhibit Hours
10:30-11:30, LVCC N250* Scripps, NBCU, N253* EnergyTech
11, Hilton Theater, Keynote – Dr Paul E Jacobs, Qualcomm
11:30-12:30, LVCC N250* Ken Howard, SAG, Sony, LG, Nielsen
12-1, LVCC N262* Lunch – MySpace, N255* FCC Chair, N261 Bravo, N259 FLO TV
12-1, LVCC S225 Powermat, S224 Handango, ATT, Intel, Samsung
1-2, LVCC N262* Mommy Memorykeepers – Eye-Fi, N255* CinemaNOW
1:30-2:30+, LVCC N262*OnStar,Fox,N261 Z, Arts&Labs,N259 Metacafe,Redbox,JWT
1:30-2:30, LVCC S224 Untethering TV – Qualcomm, Broadcom, Sony
3-4, LVCC S224 ION, FLO TV, MobiTV, NatGeo, LG, S225 Samsung
3-4, LVCC N260 GPS Garmin, TomTom, N261 Lionsgate, MSNBC, N259 Blip.tv
3:30-4:15-5, LVCC N262* Marketing to Digital Moms/Gala Product Showcase – Kodak
4, Hilton Theater – Keynote – Zhou Houjian, Hisense
4:30, LVCC South Hall EHX CE PRO reception
6-7, LVCC North Hall – Kenwood press event
*****
2:30-7:30, V Ballrooms 3001-3101 – Digital Media Insider sessions/awards party
3, V Casanova 501 – Shuttle press event, wearenotalienbware.com
5:30-8:30, Atomic Museum, It Won’t Stay in Vegas party
TBD Paris Hotel, Monster 2010 Dealer Awards – John Legends Concert (invite)

Sa 1/9
8-5, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
9-6, Exhibit Hours
10:30-11:30, LVCC S224 Revision3, N261 Big Fuel, N255* Last Gadget Standing
11, LVCC South Hall Lobby 3 CNET Stage – Best of CES
12-1, LVCC N260 Napster
1:30-2:30, LVCC N258 Warren Packard, DFJ, Kuk Yi, Best Buy, S224 Sprint, Comcast
2:15-5:30, LVCC N253* Silvers Summit Gadgets – Fox
3-4, LVCC N260 Netbooks – Harris Interactive

Su 1/10
8-3, LVCC S229, V Titian 2202 -press room open
9-4, Exhibit Hours

*FREE
**Shuttles:  http://cesweb.org/docs/2010_CES_Shuttle_Map_for_CESweb.pdf
***Maps: www.cesweb.org/exhibits/facilities/default.asp,  http://www.cesweb.org/docs/2010_CES_Show_Locations_Map.pdf
*** Parties:  http://www.thomas-pr.com/01/ces2010.html

“he wants to shoot a bullet into every part of him that wants a free united states”

The Avett Brothers get help from The American Budget Network for their hilarious music video for their sweet single, “Slight Figure of Speech”. This is the best music video I have seen all year from my favorite band of the year. The music video stars Andy Daly best known as Principal Terrence Cutler from the amazing HBO series,Eastbound and Down, and was directed by Jody Hill, creator of Eastbound and Down and directed Observe and Report. You can watch more infomercials for The American Budget Network at Funny or Die. Please check out I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053drb

People are people everywhere we go aren’t they. I had prior looked into a company called ‘PLUG’ and it actually has stock– it is wave energy. Now listening to this I kept answering outloud… ” Hell we can’t get people to stop killing people and you want to change people into tree planters. Well and good but in a world gone mad… well, really… what are we doing??? and for heavens sake… Carbon Credits exchanged globally– and Carbon swopping??? Geeeeeeeeece

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0053drb

Just cuz you need more Gosselin in your life, here’s your Friday Fuckery fix of douche, via Funny or Die.  Basically, jGoz ”turns back time” (disappointingly, minus the assless leather leotard) to make amends, break up with Michael Lohan, and generally repent his dildo-y ways.  Have you ever read (or seen the film) Ian McEwan’s Booker Prize-nominated masterpiece Atonement? Neither have I. But I think it’s kinda like that. Enjoy!

Admittedly, I”m not much of a Will Ferrell fan. Yet this video cracked me up.

The actor who plays Ferrell’s landlord is a firecracker–definitely Oscar-worthy. And she’s got a wicked sense of humor (from Funny or Die).

Green Team from Will Ferrell, Adam “Ghost Panther” McKay, and John C Reilly – Video.

Digital Media Wire was in town today at the swanky Hotel Kabuki delivering its intimate brand of confab, where content and technology is shaken not stirred, and thought leaders hunker down to vision the future of digital media.  Del Daix of the Examiner.com and Julie Robin Blaustein of Bub.blicio.us were there blogging as well.  Here is Julie’s post, and Del’s video, and here is our summary:

Jay Adelson, Digg/Revision3, @jayadelson
Recently moved from Upstate NY to Marin, tweeps helped find transport at www.shipyourreptiles.com for family gecko not allowed on plane.  Picked SF because @kevinrose was single and easy, would have worked anywhere except LA which is way too Hollywood.  Digg has two gs because Disney owned dig.com, half-joked about how catchy a one consonant, one vowel, two consonant word is like Buzz.  Digg was first coded by someone at elance who they later hired.  Love angels Marc Andreeson, Ron Conway, Reed Hoffman, for VCs looked more at who would be a great partner (Greylock, Highland Capital) than who had big pedigree (KPCB, Sequoia).  Chapter in Sarah Lacy’s (@sarahcuda) Once Lucky, Twice Good book. Pay wall will be print’s doom.  Impressed with CNN.com, likes the way Paranormal leveraged social media.  Digg is a discovery mechanism, a news aggregator catering to niche interests, lies somewhere between the Twitter firehose of unvetted breaking news and five guys in a room vetting stories based on yesterday’s news.  Google is for search, social media is for filtering.  10% of Digg users power relevance for the other 90%.  Digg’s content ads appear in-stream, pricing based on popularity, if its gets digged, price goes down, high CTRs of 2-3%, if buried priced goes up, bad content ads gets priced out, fewer buries than diggs.  (Similar to StumbleUpon’s offering)  Watch for platform redesign from uberdigg one-size-fits-all to microdiggs focus on verticals. Digg is hiring and dog-friendly!

Curt Marvis, Lionsgate
Lionsgate has direct deals with XBox, PS3, ZillionTV and is on Boxee, TiVo and Roku via CinemaNow, awaiting more information on Yahoo! Connected TV (SDK out 1Q10).  Founded CinemaNow 6/99, 9 years too early.  Heads up Lionsgate VOD, traditional (broadcast, satellite), EST digital, Xbox, liaison to FearNet, Epix (Lionsgate/Paramount/MGM venture debutting on FiOS this Friday), Break.com.  Works on new revenue models, webisodes, mobisodes, iPhone games.  There is a big difference in philosophy between Silicon Valley and Hollywood.  The technology business is based on versioning, programmers are never finished they just tweak it in the next version.  In the content business you just don’t see Mad Man 1.0, 1.2, they wait til its perfect to release.  This difference in mindset puts Hollywood at odds with Silicon Valley and worked against the early entrants of Paramount and Universal into digital, they saw it sucked and backed off paving the way for Broadcast.com, Real Networks.. In some ways CD-ROMs were the warm up act to the internet.   In 2010, two of the most disruptive businesses in Hollywood are not even digital: Netflix delivers physical DVDs via the US Postal Service and Redbox via grocery store kiosks.  Digital is only 4% of the studios revenue.  Won’t hit $1B this year.  Yet VG is huge.  Reason why Lionsgate is moving into gaming.  DECE, the digital entertainment content ecosystem, formerly the open market initiative, is a group of 50 companies working to create interoperability between devices…DVDs were released after 10 years of working on standardization..but standardization and interoperability are key to creating a broad base around digital distribution.  Keychest, TV Everywhere moving in that direction…playshifting…pay once, use anywhere.  Windows will start closing.

John Welch, Making Fun
Problem with Redbox is that right now it is not capturing the customer relationship like Netflix, will make it harder to transition to digital.  Studios spend lots of money to stop piracy, pointless.  Can’t stop piracy in a linear model.  FB has made a lot of money giving game developers a platform to make money off of VG, the developers in turn buy ads on FB to drive traffic to their games.  Free is the ultimate low, as far as I know, we’re not paying users yet, can’t teach users to pay for something new, must emerge them deeply first, free is a big funnel, tease them through the compulsion loop, play faster, want to do next thing now, embrace free, find a way.

Jon Potter, Digital Media Association
Ambassador organization for the digital media industry: webcasters, tech co, online music and video retailers, Board comprised of Apple, Best Buy/Napster, Live 365, Pandora, RealNetworks.  Sponsor of the Digital Media Conference, Billboard Film & TV Music, CTIA, MUSEXPO, Streaming Media, SFMT, MEFCON, NARM, World Copyright Summit, NXNE, ACL, Digital Music Forum, Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live, Entertainment Merchant’s Association…  Studios are not willing to experiment with business model, they wait til it’s perfect, why mess with their cash cow.  Studios would like to leapfrog MSO to go direct to customer.  Maybe that’s what Keychest is all about.

Mike Vorhaus, Magid Advisors
Hulu is DVR without skipping.  19% of US households use Netflix.  58% of 18-54y believe piracy is ok – need to make content a service, like gaming is become a service.

Scott Brown, Cisco Media Solutions Group
No longer a debate whether content or platform is king, the customer is king.  Thee is no single magic bullet, must embrace multiple revenue streams – ad, subscription, premium, upgrades..  Here is Scott’s blog post:  blogs.cisco.com

Daren Tsui, MSpot
Started 5 years ago, added video 3 years ago, now has 40mm users.

Ted Cohen, TAG Strategic
If featured in an Apple commercial, that’s your campaign.  Too many low priced crapplications crowding the market.

Kate Connally, AddictingGames, @kateconnally
Each generation has something that is there own, the phone is the under 20y screen, my job is to make sure that generation is entertained.  We have the best free flash games on the web, we’re the online equivalent of the teenage movie.  We’re not in this to prove something, we’re in this to make money.  Incorporating music into causal game play is one of the most exciting things happening.  Apple’s move to allow in-app transactions for free games is big.  Will be interesting to see how this new engagement will be factored in to Apple’s deck.  Every game distributed on iNetwork has cross-promotion for 5 other games. (Co-publishers can upload here) Also to ensure success work closely with Apple to identify type of apps they’re looking for.  Brands can use gadgets to weave deeply into lives of fans.  AG is a strong brand in english-speaking countries particularly the US (home page has 27mm monthly uniques), haven’t made push into Asia yet.

Allen Duan, MTV Networks
MTV is working with RealNetworks on games and apps.  It’s an iterative process, ok to make mistakes.  iTunes app store provides a great feedback loop, comments told us that South Park’s Mega-Millionaire, where the boys try to win one million yen, was missing a voice over element that was important to audience.  Now have a Colbert app with segments of The Word, has charted in the Top Ten.  China has the largest flash mobile phone user base.  Own WW rights to SpongeBob, work with local team that understands the market.

Madeline Herdrich, Paramount Pictures Digital
Apps are great for theatrical marketing.  Paramount is about to release a Star Trek Captain’s Log app where trekkies can interact on a daily basis, record voice, picture, travels, will interact with Star Trek MMO.  (Many in the audience were very excited) Recently did deal with MSpot to provide movies on Sprint, Samsung’s large screen device – doing very well.  Also make clips available to send as greeting cards.  Working on original content for web and mobile.  The economy slowed development down a bit but good days ahead.  Phones with TV out will allow you to watch movies on phone on a TV set.  As a member of DECE, Paramount backs the buy once, play anywhere business model.

Rani Cohen, TuneWiki
Picture Pandora with lyrics… Music has a $.99 problem, once the track is bought, what is the upsell.  TuneWiki uses the track as a platform and sells game and lyrics products on top.  With TuneWiki you can buy a karaoke track with the real band playing, not the copy band.  Insisted on worldwide publishing rights for the lyrics so can sell in China and Japan where TuneWiki is expected to be huge.

Jason Davis, Disney.com
Game-changers on the horizon – 1.  WiMax ubiquitous connection – providing a constant broadband connection everywhere and anywhere, 2.  computing power plateaus (netbook trend) rethinking production of content, what makes sense for that platform, what’s good enough to bring costs in line with economics without compromising experience, 3.  all consumer devices become network aware and PC disappears.  2y old son not talking yet but knows iTunes icon, how to launch it and can start and pause his favorite videos.  He’s part of a generation growing up digital.  Key media and digital trends over past 10 years:  entertainment on demand(dvr, streaming, download), broadband, mobile, games, social media, UGC.  For the younger kids the connected space is games, for the older kids it’s more about video and music sharing.  Most don’t use cell phones to make calls.  It’s about texting, photos, games, videos, music, web. Disney.com #1 mobile site in US – majority access site via iPod Touch.  Disney is about family and kids, we care about rich unique content that doesn’t push boundaries but provides a safe fun experience that’s age-appropriate, we are a content provider in a connected world across all devices from those in your palm to those in the kitchen,car and beyond.  Disney formula – (Content + Audience)/Digital Connection.  Competition years ago was Barbie, Sesame Street, Hot Wheels, Yahtzee, Monopoly, Nick, Zelda, TV, phone… now it’s YouTube, Xbox, FreeRealms, Clone Wars, JustJaredJr, Mattel, Babycenter, Twitter.  Nintendo once a competitor is now a partner – supermonetize Club Penguin on DS tie back to site, one of the top selling DS games.   Disney.com is not just a website, but an online destination, an online theme park, an entertainment experience.  Watch for Muppets holiday themed content, mom page for family travel, possibility shop, create paintings, comic books, mashups, animate…  In first 5 weeks, 175,000 pieces of artwork were uploaded to site.  Safe UGC for kids.  Now Disney.com is an iPhone app with snap a photo fun…  For the non-family fans of the Disney brand, there is @Disney023 geared toward the brand Disney, formed in 1923, this summer first D23 trekkie-like convention big hit.  FB Alice in Wonderland for Tim Burton, Johnny Depp fanboys, 50,000 fans signed on at Comic-Con competition continuing to feed fandom for IP.

Craig Newmark, Craigslist, @craignewmark
Now a Chronicle columnist, committed to customer service only as long as I live, believe you take care of your customers and you’ll succeed.  We rely on professional curators to some degree, but mostly we rely on people we trust.  Trust is the new black.  Reads Tim Goodman for TV to watch.  Like HuffPo.  Invests time in Wikipedia because it’s for the ages, where we’re putting our history now.  Agrees with Tech Crunch:  transparency is the new objectivity.  TechCrunch has an honest bias.  John Stewart gives no pretense of objectivity.  Would pay to block ads on Hulu, content creators and curators need to get paid, next year will see a change.Is there a place for record labels now?   The absurdity of CNN fact-checking SNL.  Re:  The Interenet Freedom Act (Net Neutrality) which allows ISPs to charge as much as they want for poor service.  It’s wrong that telcos are allowed to pay people to lie for them and mislead the public with sites like handsoff.org.  Telecos are using a public resource and should be acting in the public interest.  Believe most people are good and trustworthy, reason why streets are safe, still need to be careful, there are some bad people out there, but for the most part people are good.  The reason why you hear more from crazies is because moderates have stuff to do.  These days if you don’t have a social media strategy, you’re a tree falling in the woods.  Very accessible, feel free to email in the afternoons at craig@craigslist.org or on Twitter @craignewmark, or on facebook.com/craignewmark.  Blog is at www.cnewmark.com.

Richard Hart, Next Step
Al Gore was on hand at Current TV in San Francisco yesterday as pink slips were handed out.  Don’t always need polished media these days, read a lot build own pictures in head.

Adeo Rossi, Founders Institute & TheFunded.com
VCs keep a long blacklist.  CEOs are fearful to share key insights on who best to partner with for funding.  Recognized a market need for a subpeona-proof anonymous forum for CEOs to safely share unbiased information.  Use gmail because its also subpeona-proof.  Only CEOs allowed in the Club, each applicant is background checked, so far have 13,000 members.  Not looking to monetize, only 1000 hits per month.  If you see something on the public site, it’s likely not true, its a shill.  The VCs on the top of the list love TheFunded because they see a lot more deals.  Re: trends, happy to see the death of newspapers:  landfill makers, forest killers, banking OPM and the combustion engine.  Eventhough FAS 157 says Twitter is not worth $1B, rather worth $0, and in tough times failure is not an option (referencing yesterday’s FailCon) – its a great time to build!  Yes, Build!  Traction path:  idea, team, prototype, launch, adoption, revenue, profitability.  To launch TheFunded, invested $1500 for VC directory, made available to members-only as incentive to join, asked friends to populate with first 30 reviews.  btw:  Netflix marks to market salaries for all employees.

Kevin Yen, YouTube, @kevinyen
Heads up monetization for channel partners and branded entertainment.  Channel partners find YouTube additive, reaches different people.  Insight tool super-powerful analytics tells you demo of who is watching.  When someone is searching for content, they’re engaged, they’re looking to go to another page, whereas when someone is watching a video, they’re in watching mode, more likely to click on the next video.  YouTube is bullish on branded entertainment and you will start to see a lot of it.  Industry is trying to figure out how to scale it to a $100-$200mm business.  If channel partners integrate a brand, all they need to do is check a box.  YouTube stars are in high demand, like Fred and Smosh.  They are choosy about the projects they accept, know the value of they’re audience and won’t betray their fans by selling out.  There is a set than can drive 1mm+ views, and a set that can drive 100,000+ views, and both sets are getting custom promotion work.  Brands like Carl’s Jr and Jet Blue like using social media stars.  The new FTC guidelines on blogger endorsements doesn’t apply to branded entertainment.  The content is entertainment, it’s not the same as news or medical advice.

Anthony Soohoo, CBS Interactive
CBS is not on the boxes yet, not on Xbox, PS3, TiVo, Roku, Boxee, ZillionTV or Y! Measurement is a barrier .  For branded entertainment, the challenge is putting the right content in front of the right audience, have 20 types of branded entertainment shows slated.  Watch for Michael Cera’s Clark & Michael to make a comeback on TV.com.  As far as paid v free, dual revenue stream, subscription comes up every recession, it will cycle back when ad rebounds, CBS is happy with ad model, offers a hybrid, sell shows via iTunes, DVDs, offer them free on TV.com.  Some like ad-supported tv, web, others want to own.  Will start to see some interactivity, has a place in fashion shows and red carpet events, watch for Victoria’s Secret happening in coming weeks.  For brand awareness sometimes overlay works better.  Metrics tracking viewership across all screens will be huge next year.  Experimenting with 360 UGC tie-ins, did I Kissed a Girl singalong contest for the Grammy’s, winners won tickets and appeared on the CBS Morning Show.

Joy Marcus, Dailymotion
60mm monthly uniques, 10mm in US.  We’re a distributor, and syndicator, but don’t produce original content.  DM, like YouTube, provide an audience that is additive to our MotionMakers, demo:  high income, urban, techie.  Re Hulu’s rumored paywall, Hulu is a DM partner, we love Hulu with its gorgeous interface, but the inventory is spotty, can’t always find all the episodes, might be worth it to some to pay for it.  I remember when paid + music = ridiculous til iTunes provided a must have product. DM hosts contests all day long.  For the MTV Awards, did a movie spoof UGC contest, very large submission numbers.  Branded entertainment is here to stay, wouldn’t have said this 5 years ago, but the demand from advertisers is very strong, works well for marketers or they wouldn’t be asking for more.  Demand is so strong, we’re doing a road show looking for a production partner.  DM Motionmakers have been hired to produce commercials for brands, Coke, etc.  DM takes pride is fostering talent.  In the next month will be announcing a partnership for DM MotionMakers with a TV network.

Mitch Galbraith, Funny or Die
In the beginning made a decision to focus on making FOD a destination site to serve our celebrity principal partnerships, foster an environment for celebrity talent, frugal in-house production that never lets spending get ahead of web economics, in-house ad team.  Would send out widgets to recruit in the wild and bring back to the site, would see traffic bumps of 15-70% depending on the virality of the video.  Make $10mm a year, half of ad business is related to campaigns built around brands like McD, Norelco, Paramount…  We did a wildly popular spot for EA Sports with Charlize Theron…another one for MoveOn.org got 2.5mm views, entertaining, funny with brand message.  Make it good enough to mix into content pool, not in a sneaky way, its not misleading the public, they watch what they want to watch.  Right now there are no standards for branded entertainment but there isa group of publishers and advertisers working on it.  The Lindsay Lohan eHarmony spoof was not branded entertainment.  Now that FOD is well-established as a premiere comedy video brand and distribution has matured, we’re starting to syndicate our low-cost high-quality comedy content across web, tv, film.  11/09 FOD is launching a YouTube channel.  1/10 FOD is debuting a  half-hour show on HBO, and FOD’s first feature is in development.   TV is a huge opportunity, excited that Boxee and Macrovision are forging a path but its all pretty nascent, not where we invest.  Platform to discover talent, do look to develop talent and have sent producers on to SNL and Sony Pictures.

Stephen Condon, ATT Digital Media
On paywall, subscription is the flavor of the day, past experience says there is little money to be made from pay model apart from exclusive events not available elsewhere and those for niche audiences.  That said, having a pay option sets a perceived value for the content, user might be feel better sitting through ads if the alternative is to pay $10.  Looking forward to Macrovision’s (now Rovi’s) net guide on tv where you can search for program by name instead of just by day and time, and integrating personal video library.  Technology right now is a huge problem, no one wants 4 remotes, want seamless connection to TV.  Clickable video is tremendously impactful, lack of standards holding it up.

Tom DeLuca, Warner Home Video
Some budget are 100% online, some zero but mostly tv/web go hand in hand to be successful.  Trying to get more efficient with spending, go beyond the banner, love the engagement on Meebo, saw it and said we’re in.  Fan of mobile, LBS bluetooth marketing, couponing is untapped in US, looking to Asia.  Innovation drives decision.  Still an internal sell.  Marketers feel more comfortable with TV buy.  So pricing is key, budgets are very specific.  Want to know if we pay this, then these will be our brand evangelists.  There is a finite qualified audience and we know how much to pay for them.  Expect pricing to stay consistent.

Jim Louderback, Revision3, @jlouderb
At the point where long and short form content is going over the top, web video on tv is here, will take off with Roku’s new offering focused on indies: Revision3, TWiT.tv, etc.  Focused on emotional branding, where trusted host talks about sponsor, better reach to core group of millennial men, we get $80 CPMs for that.  It’s not an impression unless it makes an impression.  CPMs hold up when you deliver audience in a trusted way.  Premium content is whatever the audience wants, J&J bought Babycenter because they wanted new baby moms.  That’s premium content. Glam is half-premium, not specific enough within the women’s category.

Funny Or Die, which has held steadfastly to a destination site strategy over the last two and a half years, will finally launch its own YouTube channel in November, COO Mitch Galbraith said on a panel I moderated today at Digital Media Conference West. Also in the works are 12 half-hour shows of sketches, segments and mini-shows of original Funny or Die Presents for HBO and a feature-length film, he said.

Galbraith said that Funny or Die feels it now has a mature enough brand that it can send content to YouTube without sacrificing its own site. Plus, YouTube is “publisher friendly” (read: he got a good deal). That’s not to say Funny or Die has been anti-syndication. It has always provided an embeddable player, and gets an average of 15 percent of its views on embedded players, which shoots up to 60-70 percent for some highly viral videos.

Funny or Die makes more than $10 million on advertising a year, Galbraith said, half of that from branded content (both sponsored videos and campaigns around that content). He pointed to two recent successful examples of a health care PSA for MoveOn that got 2.8 million views and an episode of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis that inserted an awkward (in a good way) product placement for EA Sports.

While Funny or Die may have de-emphasized user uploads since it first launched, the site considers discovering talent a “critical” part of its success, said Galbraith. He said a Funny or Die director now has a deal with Sony, and a writer has since moved on to Saturday Night Live.

I asked Galbraith whether Funny or Die was planning to make different content for every platform, given its ongoing work developing a premium TV show and a movie. What about over-the-top web video? Galbraith said he is certainly interested in putting web content in a different venue, but he feels the connected living room is a little too nascent. He’s waiting for a “channel of choice” to emerge, he said, as well as an audience that’s big enough to make money from.

Updated: This story was clarify the description of Funny or Die Presents.

Because nothing on it is funny. Not even that stupid video with the stupid toddler bitching out her stupid tenants about not paying their stupid rent.

Yeah, yeah. We hate a lot here at Some Country for Old Men. But it’s not really hate when a) we’re correct, b) you’re not, and c) you’re retarded. All of the video clips that play when a viewer clicks the “Die!” button at Funny or Die are funnier than the videos being judged. Ugh.

Take a look at the videos currently on the “Today’s Best” (or “Today’s Bloody Best” since it’s Halloween soon or something):

1. James Franco doing some bad acting (like that’s anything new) in a video that parodies celebrity endorsements. Wow! How cutting edge and original! The idea that celebrity endorsements are a sham! And that celebrities are stupid!

2. Anthony Edwards sending up — wait for it! — celebrity endorsements! And celebrity narcissism! Wow! And trends! Did they just whip this thing together? Above-average-actor Edwards isn’t believable for one frame of this video. He’s just too smart to pull off acting stupid. James LeGros (superior actor? or just understands comedy better? or is stupid?) is actually quite convincing as the chagrined friend. Too bad he’s showcasing his talent in such a shitty piece of crap.

3. “It Came from the Box,” a creepy movie from the ’50s! A wacky parody of bad ’50s horror movies that’s so good it actually comes across as bad! And totally unfunny! Holy fuck!

4. “Haunted Car,” a short about a car that’s haunted and is so not fucking funny.

5. And finally, “Leopard Likes Driving,” which is hilarious because someone’s driving around with a leopard in his car! And the leopard sticks his head out the window like a dog does! Holy shit, that’s hilarious!

Oh, wait! No it isn’t. Because I’m not 8.

We shouldn’t be surprised. Fat America is, after all, the country that gave us box office bonanzas Meet the Parents and its totally sidesplitting sequel (sarcasm) Meet the Fockers. Can’t wait for Little Fockers! (Barf.)

Rex Lee of HBO’s Entourage fame stars in The Adoption Agency, stated to be the top featured video on Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die site. It’s written and produced by DFDTV. Co-starring with Lee are DFDTV’s creative team members, including Nick Psinakis, Luis Jimenez, and Kevin Ignatius. Lee as Kim Jong II

The “Lost Dog” segment of THE SNAKE (directed/written by Eric Kutner and referenced in this post by me) IS a featured video on Funny or Die. Share the link on to your friends and your not-so-much-friends-but-really-just-Facebook-friends:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f8ecf3d4b1/the-snake-searches-for-his-lost-dog

You (and said friends) can follow THE SNAKE on Facebook or visit the website.

• A recap of last week’s 90210 managed to cleverly tie in both Gossip Girl and The O.C.
• Josh Schwartz, creator of both Gossip Girl and The O.C., gave Entertainment Weekly his picks for the decade’s best music.
• Gossip Girl’s riff on The O.C.’s season 3 cliff-hanger in last week’s episode, though apparently quite common, was criticized in at least 2 recaps.
• WEEKEND named The O.C. one of the best shows of the decade.
• Rachel Bilson (Summer, The O.C.) is featured on the cover of a magazine whose name I can’t even read.
• Bilson is in a disturbingly graphic but slightly funny new Funny or Die video.
• The Post-Tribune has a feature on Peter Gallagher (Sandy, The O.C.) and his one-man show.
• Shannon Lucio (Lindsay, The O.C.) has joined the cast of True Blood.
• Olivia Wilde (Alex, The O.C.) is on the cover of the December issue of Lucky. Coincidentally, Bilson was on the cover of the November issue.