Christina Applegate battling breast cancer

"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress Christina Applegate reportedly is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. ...

NBC, ABC and CBS to tone down 'upfront' advertising sales events

The networks are still having a tough time as viewership remains down after the writer's strike, and the sluggish economy is making advertisers hesitant to spend."TV lineup presentations to advertisers are being scaled back because of the sluggish economy and lingering...

Veoh Hacks Hulu

I've recently been spending some time on Veoh so this is useful for me.  We'll see if the big dogs at Hulu let this continue:"Today, a PR rep from Veoh alerted us that online users of Veoh's video service can now watch entire episodes of content from Hulu, the joint...

YouTube and Wikipedia storm to top brand ranking

LONDON (Reuters) - Internet firm Google has again pipped Apple to the top spot in a global brand ranking that also sees YouTube and Wikipedia debut in the top five, a survey showed on Friday. The annual survey by online branding magazine brandchannel.com often throws up...

What Kind of Genius Are You?

"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet. In the fall of 1972, when David Galenson was a senior economics major at Harvard, he took what he describes as a “gut” course in 17th-century Dutch art. On the...

The Perils of Being a Front Runner

"John McCain was a straight-talking upstart in the 2000 presidential election. Now he's poised to be the G.O.P. favorite for 2008, but at what cost? As a rallying cry. "Common sense conservatism" doesn't have quite the ring of "Straight Talk Express." But the new slogan on...