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Jim Packer
By Kris Sofley
Although a successful 20-year veteran of the television distribution industry, Jim Packer, newly elected NATPE board member, has worked for only two companies for the entirety of his formidable career – MGM and The Walt Disney Company.
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Fall Out Boy Pete Wentz Turns Activist Online
Fall Out Boy frontman and bassist Pete Wentz is going viral. The emo rocker has leant his eye-liner-heavy face, music, and even his own home movies to an online video campaign for an April 28 activist event called Displace Me, aimed at raising awareness for war-affected children.
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Afterworld: New Sci-fi Web Series Expands on YouTube
A new webisodic series is on the verge of exploding. First launched in early February on BudTV, "Afterworld," an animated post-apocalyptic adventure made by industry pros, moved to the front page of YouTube yesterday and saw its viewership skyrocket from several thousand to over 75,000.
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SOL LEWITT: THE ANTI-CELEB
By Matthew Ross
Sol LeWitt's contribution to online video art may be tangential at best, but we can still appreciate him.
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BOB CLARK, R.I.P.
By Matthew Ross
It's a sad irony that the director of the best Christmas film of the past 50 years died just a few days before Easter.
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Art Meets Web: Alex Itin Pioneers an Internet Avant-Garde
Prolific to the point of pathological obsession, 21st century Brooklyn artist Alex Itin creates work that embodies the perfect marriage of fine art and Web 2.0 technologies. He's such a font of creativity, in fact, that this story marks the 10th time we've spotlighted his talents. So who is this guy, mixing abstract expressionism with Orson Welles, social-networking with communal artistic creation?
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Viacom Can't Kick its YouTube Addiction
By Liz Miller
They say one of the signs of addiction is claiming that you want to quit, but always failing. If that's the case, maybe Viacom should look into the twelve-step program YouTube Anonymous.
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Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa Guy, OK Go... David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin?
By Matthew Ross
When an online video clip gets mainstream press coverage and then starts spawning parodies, it's offically a "viral sensation." Which means that whether he likes it or not, David O. Russell is now a virtual superstar.
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Kyle Sampson, Coffin Nail
By Mark Netter
Thursday's Senate committee testimony by ex-Justice Department Deputy Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson wasn't just the last nail in Alberto Gonzales' political coffin; it's a big one in shutting the lid on the entire George W. Bush Presidency.
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