pWell, this was unexpected. Perhaps coming to terms with the fact that increasingly few people give a shit about a href="http://www.grammy.com/"strongthe Grammys/strong/a, the Recording Academy tonight announced its list of nominees for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, and those nominees were...shockingly relevant. (Read the whole list a href="http://content.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx"strongHERE/strong/a.)br / br / You know who got the most nominations? Lil Wayne! He's up for eight Grammys! That's right, not the Eagles or Bob Dylan or John Legend or U2 or some boring old fart your dad likes. Lil Wayne! Pretty risque move, Grammys. I like it.br / br / While it would be pretty awesome if the Grammy for Album of the Year went to an album with a href="/article/news/49855-dear-god-please-let-this-be-the-lil-wayne-album-cover"strongTHIS FUCKING COVER/strong/a, it probably isn't going to happen, as Weezy has some pretty stiff competition in that category: Coldplay's emViva La Vida or Death and All His Friends/em (which will probably win) Ne-Yo's emYear of the Gentleman/em (!),em /emRobert Plant amp; Alison Krauss's emRaising Sand/em (which will win if Coldplay doesn't), and-- hey why not?--Radiohead's emIn Rainbows/em. Yes, Lil Wayne and Radiohead are competing for Album of the Year. Please dear god, let those two pair up for one of those collaborative medley things that the Grammys always do. Please!br / br / But you know what's even crazier? M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" is up for Record of the Year! It totally won't win (it's up against Coldplay, Robert Plant amp; Alison Krauss, Leona Lewis, and Adele), but can you imagine if it did? Can you imagine if the entire Grammy telecast ends with M.I.A., Diplo, and Switch up there at the podium? How cool would that be? Also: this is the only Grammy nomination that M.I.A. received. Weird, huh?br / br / All in all, Coldplay are up for seven awards, Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, and Kanye are each up for six, Alison Krauss, John Mayer, Robert Plant, Radiohead, and Jazmine Sullivan (hey, there's a party!) are all up for five, and Adele, Danger Mouse, the Eagles, Lupe Fiasco, George Strait, and T.I. each got four noms. Not bad, right? br / br / As usual, there are some pretty interesting nominations in the genre categories as well. Daft Punk, Robyn, Moby, Kylie Minogue, Cyndi Lauper, and Brazilian Girls are the noms for Best Electronic/Dance Album, Daft Punk, Hot Chip, and Sam Sparro will duke it out with Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna for Best Dance Recording, Death Cab for Cutie is up against Radiohead, Coldplay, Springsteen, and Kings of Leon for Best Rock Song, Beck, Death Cab, Gnarls Barkley, My Morning Jacket, and Radiohead are the Alternative noms, while Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Nas, and T.I. are up for Best Rap Album. Stephen Colbert and David Sedaris are up for Best Spoken Word Album, Flight of the Conchords got a Best Comedy Album nom, and Jonny Greenwood's emThere Will Be Blood/em score is up for Best Score Soundtrack Album. br / br / No Age get to fight Metallica for Best Recording Package, while Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are both nominated for Best Boxed Set or Limited Edition Package. Danger Mouse and Nigel Godrich are up for Producer of the Year, Justice got a Best Remixed Recording nom for their mix of MGMT's "Electric Feel", and Cornelius is up for Best Surround Sound Album. Weezer, Gnarls Barkley, Erykah Badu, and Radiohead are up for Best Short Form Music Video, as is that Jack White and Alicia Keys James Bond song, which is weird, because that video is emterrible/em.br / br / The Grammys air on CBS on February 8, 2009. I can't wait to see what M.I.A. wears!/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hhyYu5eteBaj3ERBvfNjrPrwlsA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hhyYu5eteBaj3ERBvfNjrPrwlsA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pitchfork/today/~4/-COEGUsJ9Is" height="1" width="1"/

!-- pageType= magazinesmall slug= ff_blodget section= techbiz subsection= people headline= Financial Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter authorName= Daniel Roth creditType= photo credit= Mike McGregor caption= Henry Blodgetis back, and his straight-talking analysis of the Web world is earning him new fans. -- pstrongHenry Blodget/strong has never gotten used to the chorus of hate that follows his every move. He's merely learned to live with it. When he started his personal blog in 2005, the comments a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/2005/10/welcomeand_than.html"dripped with disgust/a. "You are a boldface liar," a reader wrote. "Give me one reason why I should believe what you are writing," said another. And that was just in response to Blodget's innocuous first entry. /ppDuring his years as a star Wall Street analyst, his pronouncements were welcomed and celebrated; now he couldn't say hello without getting savaged. Just last August, TechCrunch mentioned that Blodget would be one of more than two dozen tech celebrities a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/15/4-new-experts-henry-blodget-josh-kopelman-tim-o%E2%80%99reilly-robert-scoble-join-techcrunch50/"judging a contest/a for startups. Blodget knew what was coming, even if his hosts didn't. "Blodget is scum.... He is no longer the arrogant prick we saw in the '90s, but he's still scum," someone wrote. "A lot of people lost money listening to this dirtbag." "Blodget is a Web 1.0, bubble-creating has-been." "He is unethical." "He's as crooked as they come."/p pI meet a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/henry_blodget.html"Blodget/a at the offices of his new business, a year-old site called a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/"Silicon Alley Insider/a, shortly after the TechCrunch beat-down. Alley Insider is one of many tech business blogs that feed news, earnings info, and rumors to investors and corporate insiders. But Alley Insider has one thing that others don't. Blodget. He's smart, he's skeptical, and he's got the kind of self-assured voice that sells well in the blogosphere. As the market sinks, his opinions are even more in demand, though he's still hated by a large portion of his prospective audience./p pThe site shares two floors of a Manhattan office building with programmers and business staff for some of Alley Insider's sister companies, all of which were started by former DoubleClick CEO a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/kevin_ryan"Kevin Ryan/a. Blodget works in a double-wide cubicle near a window, separated by a low wall from the site's two other editors. They spend their days crawling Twitter and RSS feeds, calling sources, and pumping out about a dozen daily takes on the business world, most with Digg-friendly headlines (no easy accomplishment with bone-dry business stories). "Is Facebook Distracting Us From Porn? No" is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/is-facebook-distracting-us-from-porn-no"typical/a, or "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/googles_ginormous_food_budget_7530_per_googler"Google's Ginormous Food Budget/a: $7,530 Per Googler, $72 Million a Year." Blodget tells his team to think of the site as talk radio: He wants readers to feel compelled to check in several times a day to get the Alley Insider view on everything going on in their world./p pFor privacy, we duck into a small conference room, and Blodget, tall and skinny, sinks into a ridiculously deep leather chair. His floppy dirty-blond hair gives him a youthful, almost carefree air, but the deep circles that ring his eyes tell a different story. He's managing a 24-hour news startup. It's midday and he's been posting since 5 am. And then there's the burden that comes with being Henry Blodget, digital punching bag./p p"There are obviously a lot of folks who say, 'Now wait a minute, isn't that the guy who....'" He lets the thought trail off. He's legally barred from talking about the incidents that led to his vilification. "To them, I'm emthat/em Henry Blodget. There's not much more I can say. I still can't address specific points. So it's like, 'OK, here's my face. Throw the fruit. When you want to stop throwing the fruit, if you want to listen, great. If you don't, fine.'"/p pIt's been almost a decade since the impulse to greet him with rotten mangos first struck. Back in 1998, as a 32-year-old analyst with investment bank CIBC, he a href="http://www.thestreet.com/markets/analystrankings/977502.html"declared/a that the stock price of Amazon.com would nearly double to $400. Three weeks later it did, and Blodget was a hero. Soon he packed up his spreadsheets mdash; he's never more comfortable than when he is lining up numbers in rows and columns and teasing out their secrets mdash; and moved to Merrill Lynch./p pInvestors followed the new oracle's every utterance, and bankers wanted Blodget to bless the stocks of companies they were hoping to do business with. The lines on his graphs always seemed to point one way mdash; steeply up and to the right. He wasn't just predicting profits, he was selling a revolution: The old metrics didn't apply. Blodget may have counseled people to own only a small percentage of Internet stocks mdash; 10 percent at the most mdash; but nobody listened./p !-- pagebreak -- div id="embed" style="width:370px;" div id="pic" style="width:350px;" img style="width:350px;" src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_blodget3_f.jpg" alt=""/ div id="caption" Launched in 2007, Silicon Alley Insider is gaining on some of its established rivals. br/ emSource: Compete/em /div /div /div pThen came the crash. Five trillion dollars in wealth vaporized in 24 months, leaving behind unquantifiable amounts of rage among the masses of day traders who had believed briefly that they, too, were market savants. When the bubble burst, so did Blodget's aura./p pStill, it wasn't the crash alone that crushed him. It took Eliot Spitzer to turn Henry Blodget into emthat/em Henry Blodget. Spitzer, then New York's crusading attorney general, investigated Merrill in 2001 for conflicts of interest. He discovered a clutch of emails from the young analyst showing that while talking up certain stocks to clients, he was trashing them internally. Companies like 24/7 Media, Excite@Home, and InfoSpace mdash; firms Merrill was publicly cheering mdash; in private were deemed by Blodget to be "shit," "crap," and "junk" (respectively). According to Spitzer's findings, Blodget would have pulled in $12 million in 2001 mdash; quadruple his earnings in 1999 mdash; if he hadn't accepted a buyout that year. In 2003, Merrill's boy genius agreed to pay a $4 million fine and accepted a lifetime ban from working in the securities industry./p pPublic disgrace usually drives a person into hiding, or at least into a different career. Jerry Levin, the brains behind the disastrous AOL-Time Warner merger, today runs a href="http://moonviewsanctuary.com/staff"Moonview Sanctuary/a, his wife's spa; Spitzer, forced to resign as governor last summer, is currently discovering the a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2008/06/10/spitzers-next-act-distressed-real-estate/"joys of real estate management/a; Health South CEO Richard Scrushy, while on trial for accounting fraud, a href="http://www.richardmscrushy.com/biography.aspx"became a televangelist/a. Not Blodget./p pOne former colleague says Blodget spent the months when he was being investigated trying to grasp why he was singled out for something that was commonplace in the industry. He figured the controversy would blow over once the public realized his conduct was not unusual. "He was incredulous that the investigation got traction; he said it was silly," a friend says. But there was too much anger in the wake of the bubble, and Blodget's embarrassing emails made him an easy scapegoat. Later, when he was inclined to argue his case, the settlement terms prevented it./p pSo Blodget did what came naturally. He began writing about the companies he used to cover, a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2104656/"first for Slate/a, then on his own blog, a href="http://www.internetoutsider.com/"Internet Outsider/a. Was this journalism mdash; or was it therapy? Rather than hide, he started saying in public what he had once said only in private, using the same brutally frank voice that got him in trouble with Spitzer. He marketed his notoriety to a new Web readership hungry for smart, independent analysis./p pWhen Ryan, an Internet Outsider reader, approached him about starting an industry news site, Blodget jumped at the prospect of a bigger stage. Before working on Wall Street, he'd been a freelance writer; now he could combine the two vocations, borrowing freely from both journalism and equity research./p pThrough Alley Insider, Blodget is trying to erase, post by post, Spitzer's portrait of him as a duplicitous, money-grubbing shill for big business. Blodget has always believed that the Internet changed everything, so naturally he believes it has the power to change the world's perception of him. The venue offers all Henry, all the time (and even when his other writers are posting, it's clear they're channeling him). The result is a unique blend of x-ray analysis and tech evangelism./p pAs we talk, Blodget gets up from his chair, antsy to return to his laptop. I ask him if he understands what he's up against. If the hate has lasted this long, why expect it ever to fade away? "If all I knew about me was what I read during that period," he says, "I'd probably have the same reaction."/p pstrongOn a late summer morning/strong, Blodget waits in the lobby of the Nasdaq building in midtown Manhattan. He's all banker today: blue suit, red tie, black cap-toed Oxfords, his shirt so deeply pressed there are creases down the sleeves. It's 10 am and, ready for his second breakfast, he pries open the plastic case of a turkey and Swiss sandwich and starts wolfing it down. In a few minutes he is supposed to conduct a video interview for Yahoo's Tech Ticker finance site. As soon as Blodget started appearing as a regular host in February, the Furies a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/650/Jerry-Yang-Strikes-Back;-Here%27s-Microsoft%27s-Next-Move?tickers=yhoo,msft"reemerged/a. "Did you not find any other decent, credible guy than Henry Blodget?" one of the first comments read. "Why spoil this new feature with such a scum and spoil the Yahoo reputation?"/p pAs producers prepare to tape the show, Blodget wipes his crumbs off the table. He explains the guiding vision behind Alley Insider. "We don't want to do things we don't care about," he says. "It's nice to say theoretically we're the judge of what's important and what's not, but come on, give readers credit. They'll tell you immediately what they want, and that drives coverage. People are fanatically interested in Apple, Google, Microsoft. It wasn't a tough call to know what to write about."/p pBlodget's focus on content is matched by his apparent indifference to the look of the site. Alley Insider employs a cookie-cutter template of scrolling headlines and thumbnail photos dragged off the Web. But design limitations notwithstanding, by September the site was getting nearly 500,000 visitors a month, rivaling a href="http://allthingsd.com/"AllThingsDigital.com/a, the citeWall Street Journal/cite blog edited by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. Since the beginning of the year, traffic to the site has more than doubled, and Blodget's words now carry surprising weight. When a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/apple-s-steve-jobs-rushed-to-er-after-heart-attack-says-cnn-citizen-journalist"he reported/a early this fall that Steve Jobs may have been rushed to the hospital after a heart attack mdash; citing an anonymous (and, as it turns out, fraudulent) post on a minor user-generated news site run by CNN called iReport mdash; Apple's a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/technology/apple/"stock dropped/a nearly 10 percent. Critics blamed Alley Insider./p p"I read citeThe New York Times/cite, citeThe Economist/cite, and Alley Insider," says a href="http://www.firebrandpartners.com/principals/index.html"Scott Galloway/a, head of investment equity firm Firebrand Partners, who is best known for his successful public fight to get on the board of citeThe New York Times/cite. "Henry takes a no-mercy, no-malice approach to Web business and media." Valleywag recently called him "the disgraced stock analyst everyone now listens to."/p !-- pagebreak -- div class="wide_img" img src="http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1612/ff_blodget2_f.jpg" alt="" div class="wide_caption" div class="wide_caption_txt" The team at Silicon Alley Insider (left to right): senior editor Dan Frommer, COO Julie Hansen, cofounder Kevin Ryan, and editor in chief Blodget. br/ emPhoto: Mike McGregor/em /div /div /div br/ br/ pFor all the success today, it took Blodget amp; Co. some time to figure out a winning formula. When Ryan, a New Yorker, launched the site in 2007, he wanted to cover the local startup and media scene. Blodget signed on as CEO and editor in chief, bought a minority stake, and hired citeForbes/cite journalists a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/peter_kafka"Peter Kafka/a and a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/dan_frommer"Dan Frommer/a to help him develop content (Kafka was later hired away by AllThingsD). The first few weeks, the site read like a tourist's guide to spotting B-list Internet companies in the big city, with each firm's location prominently announced: "NoHo-based Meetup has quietly launched a Facebook application"; "Flatiron-based YellowJacket Software has raised $1.25 million." Blodget branched out, taking on the bigger names himself mdash; Apple, Dow Jones, NBC, JP Morgan. It quickly became clear to him that New York's tech industry was too small an arena to contain the ambition of the site. And nearly half the readers were in California anyway./p pAlley Insider soon dropped its Silicon Alley focus but stuck with the moniker. And Blodget began to draw more heavily on his research experience. He created financial models of the companies he was talking about and posted the spreadsheets as Google docs so anyone could download and toy with them. He analyzed the potential revenue YouTube could bring to Google, mapping out his assumptions about viewership and ads watched, and offering a clear bottom-line conclusion. Readers weighed in with their critiques, which Blodget used to sharpen the model. He figured he wouldn't just write about Wall Street, he would also usurp part of Wall Street's business by providing high-quality research, the kind brokerage customers used to prize./p pBut visitors to the site wanted more than analytics. They also craved the edgier Henry of the Spitzer emails. Blodget obliged. In one post, a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/1/ben_stein_is_an_idiot"Blodget declares/a citeNew York Times/cite economics columnist Ben Stein to be either "an idiot" or possibly just "delusional." He suggests that the anonymous sources cited by archrival TechCrunch in its reporting on Microsoft's attempt to purchase Yahoo "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/yahoo_stock_fades_as_techcrunch_microsoft_takeover_sources_sober_up"must have been drunk/a." And in November 2007, when E-Trade lost $9 billion in value as its risky mortgage bets turned to dust, Blodget offered only one piece of advice to the company's shareholders: "a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/etrade_etfc_total_cost_of_screwup_9_billion"Cry/a."/p p"On Wall Street, I'd consistently submit a report that would say, 'This is going to be roadkill,' and it would come back rewritten as 'We see some weakness,'" Blodget says. "Now I can say, 'It's going to be roadkill.' That's very satisfying."/p pBut even as he delights in railing against corporate giants, he's still disciplined enough to run the underlying numbers mdash; Blodget loves the drama, but he loves the spreadsheets just as much. One post about craigslist should have been something only an accountant could love: a complex set of assumptions and analyses to determine what the company might be worth. Yet Blodget wrote the whole exercise as if it were a mystery plot, parceling out details and stringing the reader along until the very end./p pWhen Yahoo announced this summer that it had hired Bain amp; Co., a consulting firm usually brought in when a company is about to start swinging the ax, Blodget a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/yahoo-fat-farm-how-many-people-does-yahoo-need-to-fire-to-get-fit-"sharpened his own pencil/a. "We're mad as hell ... especially now that Yahoo's wasting millions on Bain." He offered his own, free advice (spreadsheet attached) cataloging how many people Yahoo should fire in each division mdash; 1,804 from its "positively obese" sales and marketing arm alone mdash; in order to goose operating margins to a "more respectable" 20 percent from its current 7 percent. "He pushed us early on to ask, 'What does this mean for profits? How does any news affect a company's numbers?'" Frommer says. "It's great if it makes a company look bad or look good, but is this really going to affect the numbers?"/p pBlodget is also trying things that no mainstream-journalism-trained blogger like Swisher or GigaOm's a href="http://gigaom.com/"Om Malik/a would ever dare. He makes serious-sounding offers to buy companies that he wants to demonstrate are significantly undervalued. It's pure showmanship, but with Blodget's background in finance and his ties to folks up and down Wall Street, no one knows just how far he will take the joke./p pHis first target was CNET. With the a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/announcing_our_friendly_takeover_offer_for_cnet"slightest of winks/a, he wrote a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/1/cnet_update_on_our_offer_and_restructuring_plan_part_1"post after post/a explaining how he'd a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/jana_here_s_our_plan_for_cnet"purchase the company/a. At first he proposed a sort of reverse merger, with CNET buying Alley Insider for $50 million in stock, at which point Blodget's team would take over every aspect of the company. Then he detailed the operational changes he would make./p !-- pagebreak -- pRyan got nervous about Blodget's new direction. Blodget's deal with the government forbade him from giving individual research advice, but it didn't say anything about jumping into the private-equity space. Still, there might be legal issues. "Look, why don't we run this by a lawyer just to make sure, because we're getting into securities stuff here," he said to Blodget. When the lawyer asked them "Is this a real offer?" there was a brief silence. For the first time the two really thought about it./p p"You know, yes," Ryan replied. "If they said yes, we would accept $50 million at that time to buy them. So it is a real offer. But we're actually asking them to buy us." The lawyer signed off on the convoluted reasoning./p pAfter Blodget's taunting posts went up, investment firm JANA Partners announced a hostile takeover attempt of CNET. It failed, but by spring 2008 CBS a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/5/cbs_buying_cnet_for_1_8_billion"stepped in to buy/a the company for $1.8 billion./p pFor one CNET executive, memories of Blodget's unwanted attentions still rankle. "The way you make a big name for yourself on the Web today is to make, for lack of a better word, ridiculous statements," says Zander Lurie, former senior VP of strategy and development at CNET and now CFO of CBS Interactive. Lurie found himself reassuring employees who sent him Blodget's postings and wondered whether their company was at risk. "Everyone knew there was nothing in the offering: He didn't have the capital, the expertise, or any specific insight into our business," Lurie says. "He makes the ridiculous statement and it gets sent all around, and then he claims credit when there's an event the following year, which obviously he had nothing to do with. Less than zero to do with. We all have reputations. And his track record is well known."/p pBlodget has been a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/how-the-new-york-times-nyt-can-save-itself"waging another/a half-serious acquisition fight, this time for the New York Times Company. All he wants is the Web site mdash; the print side is dead, he says. He thinks the paper needs to cut about 80 percent of its costs, at which point it would be the perfect size to be the digital paper of record for a long time to come. "It's a serious offer from our perspective, but it hasn't been taken seriously," Blodget says./p pstrongIn the wake of Wall Street's latest meltdown/strong, Blodget finds himself in even greater demand. He's doing regular TV appearances and is posting again on Slate. When NPR wanted someone to talk about the Wall Street culture of greed, they a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94667073"brought in Blodget/a. The reporter introduced him by pointing out that Merrill is now gone, "and Henry Blodget is gone, too; he's banned from Wall Street after being charged with fraud."/p p"Thanks," Blodget said, stuttering for a second, "especially for that horrific introduction." They both laughed. But by the end, the host was treating Blodget like an elder statesman./p pRecently Blodget has been expanding his franchise. He and Ryan have launched two sister sites: a href="http://www.clusterstock.com/"Clusterstock/a, which will compile and analyze Wall Street research on a much wider range of industries, and a href="http://www.businesssheet.com/"the Business Sheet/a, which will focus on corporate scandals. A third is in the works. For each new site, Blodget provides the bulk of the early posts, seeding the new enterprise with the Blodget touch./p pBlodget is broadening beyond tech to get ready for what he sees as a coming shakeout in the news-blog industry. He says he might even start making acquisitions if the price is right. Ryan's suite of companies has raised $50 million in the past few years, possibly enough to buy out some other interesting small blogs. The winning formula for this new kind of business remains elusive: It's a matter of finding the balance between gossip and analysis, between aggregating news from other sources and doing original reporting. Revenue models that go beyond basic advertising have also been slow in coming. "If you look at the development of every new medium, there's been a new form of journalism that has been made possible by it, and there has always been this period of transition," Blodget says. "There is collective experimentation as people figure out what works and what doesn't, and usually you have some very important publications that are built."/p pAnother way to expand is to sell to a larger media company. Blodget says he'd consider an offer, but Alley Insider is still defined almost entirely by one man. If he left, the value would plummet. Also, some media institutions mdash; the grayer, stodgier ones mdash; may find Blodget's unique baggage unacceptable. The endless barrage of comments, the angry mob that seems to follow him everywhere, may be too much for the sensitivities of some management teams, even in these freewheeling days of media transformation. When Blodget wrote a few small items for citeThe New York Times/cite, the newspaper's a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/opinion/11pubed.html"ombudsman went haywire/a. "The citeTimes/cite luster may help Blodget," he wrote last year, "but some of his taint rubs off on the citeTimes/cite."/p pIt's just the sort of comment Blodget has come to expect from, well, everyone. That may change, but only if this latest reinvention succeeds in burying his past forever. 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After LA Weekly dubbed the project dead in the water, there have been a few pieces of news that have given us a glimmer of hope for the Warner Bros. adaptation of Dark Shadows, which originally set Tim Burton to direct with Johnny Depp starring. This week Collider caught up with YES MAN producer Richard D. Zanuck who cleared the air stating that SHADOWS is going to be Tims next project after ALICE IN WONDERLAND and theyll be shooting it next summer in London! You can watch the video inside.

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With producer Stuart Price in London and The Killers in Las Vegas, there was only one way for Day & Age to come of age. Using a remote Logic-based songwriting workflow, band members recorded their ideas in Logic then shared them via email and iDisk with each other and Price, who, a continent away, added drum loops, keyboard lines, and other effects to the songs before sending them back to Vegas.

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The Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, in Cazenovia, NY, houses an incredible collection of nearly 4,000 patent models. What's a patent model? Between 1790 and 1880 inventors had to submit working models along their patent filing. Like many Makers, I'm crazy about tiny functioning models of mechanical things, and would love to go see these in person someday. Maybe I can convince the producers to shoot some video there for season two of Make: television...

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pOne wonders sometimes, with all the other stuff they've always got going on, if the members of a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/"strongSonic Youth/strong/a ever have to remind themselves that they're in Sonic Youth. Like, can you picture Thurston, jamming out with a href="/article/record_review/145413-original-silence-the-second-original-silence"strongOriginal Silence/strong/a, thinking, "Oh, crap, a href="/article/news/145351-sonic-youth-link-with-matador-for-next-album"strongwe just signed to Matador/strong/a! I better call Lee and get my lanky behind to the studio!" Or Kim's a href="/article/record_review/50830-free-kitten-inherit"stronghanging out with Yoshimi and Julie Cafritz/strong/a and realizes she's gotta write a bassline for that pesky other band of hers? There's been a wealth of happenings with the members of Sonic Youth lately, though precious little of it has to do with Sonic Youth proper./p pBut more about those side gigs in a minute.../p pFirstly, the four Yoofs managed to get together in the same room recently to collaborate withnbsp;Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and composer Takehisa Kosugi on a brand new piece of music. The piece will soundtrack a new work by the a href="http://www.merce.org/"strongMerce Cunningham Dance Company/strong/a that will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in mid-April, in celebration of choreographer Merce Cunningham's 90th birthday. The a href="http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=703"strongMerce Cunningham at 90/strong/a piece will be performed on April 16-19. (You might remember the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as being the people who a href="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/11/03/031103crda_dancing "strongbrought Radiohead and Sigur Roacute;s together/strong/a back in 2003.) br /br /So, yeah. Sonic Youth + Led Zeppelin + dancers = MASSIVE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM EXPLOSION!!!/p pAlso, that traveling, career-spanning a href="/article/news/48683-sonic-youth-plan-career-spanning-art-exhibit"strongart exhibit/strong/a, a href="http://www.sonicyouth.com/main/includes/sensationalpop.html"strong"Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix"/strong/a is on display until January 4 in Bolzano, Italy. It'll move to the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany from January 31-April 26, Konsthall in Malmo, Sweden May 29-September 6, and Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporaneo in Navarra/Nafarroa, Spain from October 2009 through January 2010.br /br /Other than that, and presumably working on their Matador debut, Sonic Youth as a unit has been pretty quiet recently. Individually, though, they have a hell of a lot going on.br /br /Thurston Moore's a href="http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/"strongEcstatic Peace/strong/a label recently offered up an LP from a trio comprised of saxophonist Paul Flaherty, Vampire Belt guitarist (and Thurston's partner in Northampton Wools) Bill Nace, and Thurston himself. The three-track set, emFlaherty/Nace/Moore/em, was crafted last winter, and sports three very amusingly-titled tracks: "Sex", "Drugs" and "Lavender". Northampton Wools promise their debut LP from the label shortly, and Ecstatic Peace will also issue an album by Hat City Initiative, a group featuring Thurston and his brother Gene Moore, as well as a forthcoming collaboration between Thurston and noise god Prurient. Thurston also just issued an ultra-limited edition cassette to a href="http://www.destructiveindustries.net/"strongDestructive Industries/strong/a which they call his "most encompassing and introverted work to date". We'd tell you more about it, except it is sold the hell out. Moore also recently a href="http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/spike-jones-where-the-wild-things-are-1/"stronginterviewed director Spike Jonze/strong/a for emInterview /emmagazine, and introduced a screening of David Bowie videos at NYC's Museum of Modern Art earlier this week.br /br /Moving on, Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley pops up on Spanish singer a href="http://www.christinarosenvinge.com/"strongChristina Rosenvinge/strong/a's recent album emTu Labio Superior/em, which was recorded and mixed by a href="/article/record_review/36646-rather-ripped"strongemRather Ripped/em/strong/a producer John Agnello at Sonic Youth's studio in Hoboken, NJ. Rosenvinge will hit the road in Spain with Shelley, Chris Brokaw, and Jeremy Wilms early next year./p pSY guitarist Lee Ranaldo and photographer Leah Singer (his wife) have an art exhibit entitled "Space Within These Lines Not Dedicated" hanging at the Teaching Gallery at Troy, New York's Hudson Valley Community College through December 6. They also have two art shows scheduled for February 2009: ILoveYouIHateYou" at Magasin3 in Stockholm and "Between You amp; Me" at CNEAI (Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprim) in Paris. Ranaldo is also producing a series of three 12" singles by the French band a href="http://www.hifiklub.com/"strongHIFIKLUB/strong/a, set to be released in 2009. 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Oh, man, this is sad and unexpected news: 16-year veteran CNN reporter and presenter Miles O'Brien will be departing CNN, as the network closes its sci/space/tech news division. Snip from mediabistro: O'Brien's departure comes as the network dismantles its science, space, environment and technology unit in Atlanta. That includes O'Brien as well as six producers. O'Brien has been CNN's chief technology and environment correspondent since being replaced as anchor of American Morning in April 2007. The LA Times has an item, also. I won't go through a laundry list of the departing names here, but I've had the pleasure of meeting and/or briefly working with a number of them (as a guest on various CNN shows) -- they're talented, dedicated, rare professionals. And Miles is truly one of the greats. I am so sorry to hear this news. (Thanks, MW) Previously: Xeni on CNN's "Welcome to the Future" - Boing Boing Xeni on CNN "American Morning" re: 'net movie downloads - Boing Boing Xeni on CNN American Morning: Apple recalls Sony batteries - Boing ... Xeni on CNN x 2: Extreme Cellphones, ICANN and internet governance ......br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=64ffcc8c3cb79ae224dc9539f64aa630p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=64ffcc8c3cb79ae224dc9539f64aa630p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=64ffcc8c3cb79ae224dc9539f64aa630" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

When you’re an itty-bitty company and your first big customer win is CBS, you turn a few heads. And so it is with iWidgets, which makes video applications that are customized for the likes of MySpace, Facebook, iGoogle and other social networks. Now that they’ve landed CBS, they’re working to bring on more TV broadcasters, as well as online video producers, as clients.

Syndicating your content or web site to social networks generally requires either hiring a developer who knows the inner workings of writing code for each site, or going with a one-size-fits-all widget provider. San Francisco-based iWidgets simplifies the process with a drag-and-drop web interface that spits out custom widgets.

CEO Peter Yared’s pitch goes something like this: Traffic to destination sites across the Internet is tracking downward. Everybody’s spending their time on social networks instead. If you’re in the content business, you need to deliver your stuff to where the people already are. So CSI, for example, has nearly 450,000 fans on its Facebook page, where an iWidgets app of top clips is front and center.

We’ve long been bullish on tying together communities and content, to the point of integrating characters, fans and storylines. But that’s a bit too ambitious and fuzzy for Yared, who said he’s focused on where the money is flowing today. iWidgets is set up in such a way that it can take a piece of lucrative video CPMs as an affiliate. In Yared’s opinion, video is the most monetizable aspect of social networks because users hate banner ads, whereas they’re used to dealing with an in-stream video ad, no matter what the environment. Indeed, CBS uses thePlatform to manage its video advertising, and iWidgets — at least according to its published rates — takes 15 percent of that ad revenue.

iWidgets just started offering a self-serve version of its platform, though it doesn’t allow integration with outside video advertising, so users won’t be able to make money from it.

Yared said iWidgets’ advantage over its main competition, Sprout Builder, is that its applications aren’t in Flash, making them more flexible; and over competitors like Clearspring, that iWidgets’ applications are customized for each social network rather than one-size-fits all. iWidgets is tightly entrenched in each social network; for example, it plans to offer its customers easy integration with Facebook’s new paid program for placing application items in users’ newsfeeds.

iWidgets has already raised a seed round of more than $1 million from Opus Capital, and is working on closing a Series A round that’s so far been held up by this fall’s market downturn, according to Yared.

Yared told us that the day his company launched with CBS (which didn’t go entirely smoothly, as there was some conflict over whether little iWidgets would receive full episodes or just clips), he received calls from nearly every other network. So his seven-employee startup, which to date has really been more focused on refining its nifty widget creator technology than cutting deals, has a lot to get done — including hopping on many flights to Los Angeles.

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p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127000/COD5-5 202_qjgenth.jpg?347146" rel="lightbox[article127000]" title="Call 20of 20Duty 3A 20World 20at 20War 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127000/COD5-5 202.jpg 3F347146 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin: 3px;" alt="Call of Duty: World at War - Image 1" title="Call of Duty: World at War - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/127000/COD5-5 202_qjgenth.jpg?347146" align="" border="0"/a br/pbrI'm sure this question's been eating at you ever since you heard of the mode in span style="font-style: italic;"Call of Duty: World at War /spanspan id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"span id="iTxt"(a title="Call of Duty 5 for the PlayStation 3" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Call-of-Duty-5/cid/4758"PS3/a, a title="Call of Duty 5 for the Xbox 360" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/category/Call-of-Duty-5/cid/4760"Xbox 360/a, a title="Call of Duty 5 for the Wii" href="http://wii.qj.net/category/Call-of-Duty-5/cid/4759"Wii/a, a title="Call of Duty 5 for the DS" href="http://ds.qj.net/category/Call-of-Duty-5/cid/4757"DS/a)/span/span/span/span: "Why Nazi Zombies?"brbra href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/activision/179" id="tag" title="one of the largest third party game publishers"Activision/a executive producer Daniel Suarez explained during an interview with MTV multiplayer:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"It was one of the pet projects of one of the designers. The seed of the idea came out of casual [tower] defense games online. It was something that they [a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/treyarch/5863" id="tag" title="game developer"Treyarch/a] had been working on for a while and went back to when they had time./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br /pSuarez went on to explain that the Nazi Zombies remained something more rumor than fact during span style="font-style: italic;"World at War's /spanproduction, with the designers themselves claiming no knowledge of any zombies, nazis or otherwise. Quite suddenly, the Nazi Zombie build appeared one day and evidently became quite popular with the span style="font-style: italic;"World at War /spanteam internally. The marketing people got involved and a little public attention was called to the mode for Halloween via a video on a title="Video - Call of Duty: World At War's bonus zombie mission" href="http://xbox360.qj.net/Video-Call-of-Duty-World-At-War-s-bonus-zombie-mission/pg/49/aid/125702"GameTrailers/a. The rest is history.brbrPoint of curiosity: The devs were able got through 23 waves in Nazi zombie mode.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Call of Duty: World at War Articles:/spanbrullia title="Activision: World at War will have more DLC confirmed, described as non-traditional" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Activision-World-at-War-will-have-more-DLC-confirmed-described-as-non-traditional/pg/49/aid/126947"span style="font-style: italic;"Activision: World at War will have more DLC confirmed, described as non-traditional/span/abr/li/ulbrspan id="iTxt"Buy: [Call of Duty: World at War (a href="http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-World-War-Xbox-360/dp/B001E22VQO/quickjumpnetw-20" rel="nofollow" title="Call of Duty 5 for the 360"Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-World-War-Playstation-3/dp/B001AWBYNE/quickjumpnetw-20" rel="nofollow" title="Call of Duty 5 for the PS3"PS3/a)]brBuy: [Call of Duty: World at War (a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001AWIP7M/quickjumpnetw-20" rel="nofollow" title="Call of Duty for the Wii"Wii/a, a href="http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-World-War-Nintendo-DS/dp/B001AWIP8G/quickjumpnetw-20" rel="nofollow" title="Call of Duty 5 for the DS"DS/a)]/spanbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=uWSkZFpd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=A51c31wr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?a=gmwv9Mb0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/qj/wii?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/wii/~4/WFiPwA_25fs" height="1" width="1"/

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a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry, was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider packages (GAME packages, that is) to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3-4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=jL2FhcBH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=fhhcezIe"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=umf3K37Z"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/QJ/PSP?d=43" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/x44gEcXdm-w" height="1" width="1"/

a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" rel="lightbox[article126992]" title="Empty 20shelves 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves.png 3F141730 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Empty shelves - Image 1" title="Empty shelves - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126992/empty 20shelves_qjgenth.png?141730" align="right" border="0"/aInternet connections are getting faster and faster every year, digital downloading services are raking it in hand over fist, and a growing number of games are choosing to release without the benefit of a retail component. brbrMost recently, the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Network have provided the impetus for even greater leaps and bounds in the growth of the digital downloading industry. brbrAll these things considered, it's easy to assume that retail may very well become a thing of the past very soon.brbrNot quite, says a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/bo-andersen/11941" id="tag" title="President of Entertainment Merchants Association"Bo Andersen/a, President and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association (a href="http://wii.qj.net/tags/ema/6635" id="tag" title="Entertainment Merchants Association"EMA/a). He mentioned during a meeting with the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the MEDIA-TECH Association (MTA):brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Digital distribution certainly will be a significant part of the entertainment industry in the future, but our predictions are that packaged media will continue to dominate the home video sector until 2015 at least./pbrContributing to his somewhat conservative view on the industry was probably a recent survey conducted by the EMA and the CDSA. The results, covered in one of a title="EMA survey says: Gamers like their packages" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/EMA-survey-says-Gamers-like-their-packages/pg/49/aid/125479"our previous articles/a, led Andersen to the conclusion that gamers consider game packages to be an integral part of the full value of a product.brbrThe EMA is co-producer of "The Future of Packaged Media '09," which will be presented February 3 to 4, 2009 at the Hilton Los Angeles in Universal City, CA.brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales" href="http://www.qj.net/EMA-DVD-sales-still-oustrip-video-game-sales/pg/49/aid/121868"span style="font-style: italic;"EMA: DVD sales still oustrip video game sales/span/abr/li/ulbrbrdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://