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The movie-going public was in the mood to see a classic Hollywood horror archetype over the weekend: zombies. Yep, the walking dead, made popular by George Romero so many years ago, were feasting in darkened theaters across the country. According to Box Office Mojo estimates available at the time of this writing, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) Zombieland made the most money at domestic theaters over the past weekend, taking in $25 million.

Sony also captured second place with its computer cartoon, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. That film is on its way to a total haul of over $100 million. At the moment, it has better than $80 million in the bank. Shareholders of Disney (NYSE: DIS), however, had their own computer cartoons in the marketplace as well. The double feature of Pixar's Toy Story and Toy Story 2 came in third with $12 million. To be honest, I thought the idea of running those two back-to-back would be too much to take for the attention spans of the younger crowd. I know it would be way too much for me to take.

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Sony's zombies consume competition at box office originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a letter posted on his website, Michael Moore announced that he is looking for "a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and share with me what they know."

He adds that he is looking for Wall Streeters to provide a "moment of courage, to be a hero and help me expose the biggest swindle in American history."

While Moore has a history of putting together extraordinarily compelling films, I wonder whether he's the guy to tackle the massive fraud that is the collapse of the financial system and subsequent bailout. Why? Because I think that when it comes to matters the economy, Michael Moore has literally no idea what he's talking about.

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Michael Moore to tackle TARP with next movie -- he's the wrong guy for it originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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My BloggingStock's colleague Jonathan Berr mentioned Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) advertising merits in a post recently. Search for "health care costs" on Google News and you're likely to see an advertisement for Michael Moore's "Sicko" film that lambasts the U.S. healthcare industry.

Is Google trying to sway results here into some political corner? Doubtful to me -- Google's function is solely to organize information into the most relevant form possible, and right now, I'd think the term "health care costs" and the new film Sicko are pretty relevant to each other. But, Google may have more ready soon in terms of really being a connector of medical information outside of a loose news connection based on computer algorithms.

Google Health is apparently herding together medical experts to advise it on medical matters as it makes a charge into organizing medicinal information on its search engine into a friendlier (and solution-providing?) format. Search for "diabetes" on Google and you'll already be presented with top-of-the-search-results listings for symptoms, tests and treatments. Many other medical conditions follow the same lead here. Is Google trying to step in and be a medical intermediary before you visit the doctor's office?

I think that goes without saying. More and more people I know use Google to research medical conditions before they start trying to make appointments. A world populace armed with a new empowerment to use information can be incredibly strong I think. Google's vision to "organize the world's information" has never been more true if the search leader thinks it can become a medical adviser (of sorts), and it gets, then, out of the "information organization" field and into the "solutions provider" field in a way. I'm not sure that is the best strategy for Google, but I'm for it anyway.

Paging Dr. Google, please call the front desk originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From time to time, Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) reminds everyone that despite all of the talk about peace, love and the sharing of information, it is just a company.

A case in point is the idiotic rantings of a low-level executive trying to kowtow to the health care industry. Writing about MIchael Moore's documentary "Sicko," Lauren Hutton Turner laments that "Moore's film portrays the industry as money and marketing driven, and fails to show healthcare's interest in patient well-being and care."

Of course, Hutton, an account planner who works with health care companies, has a solution: buy more advertising on Google. "Whatever the problem, Google can act as a platform for educating the public and promoting your message," she writes. "We help you connect your company's assets while helping users find the information they seek. "

Hutton is being vilified and mocked throughout the Internet. But even though the criticism of her is a little unfair, it raises a bigger issue about the honesty of Google's search results. It's not in Google's interest for someone searching for the term "health care costs" to see a link to Moore's documentary come out on top or even on the first two or three pages.

This reminds me of a bizarre story I heard about the Wall Street Journal and Enron. Soon after the first Enron stories appeared in the newspaper someone in the Journal's advertising department supposedly (I am not sure if it's true or not) sent the company a letter offering to do a branding campaign to combat the negative publicity being created by its own reporters.

Hutton is probably no different than thousands of other Googlers looking to get a bigger slice of the world's advertising spending. She erred in showing publicly how Google values its advertisers over its users just like every other media company. If people get some use out of Google while it makes money for its customers, it's a happy coincidence.

Google makes me feel sicko originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fans of the cancelled CBS Corp (NYSE: CBS) series Jericho (who knew there were any?) have organized an unusual protest campaign in hopes of convincing the network to bring back the serial drama. The protest plays upon the response of WWII General McCauliffe to a German order to surrender, "Nuts," which was quoted by a Jericho character under attack. Fans are shipping bag after bag of nuts, over 25,000 lbs. to date, to the network to illustrate their passion for the series.

Here's where it gets interesting. Instead of shipping the nuts themselves, the campaign is using the services of nutsonline.com, which offers a turnkey solution to the busy executive protester. In effect, their passion has become nutsonline.com's windfall. Not to mention the snack-deprived CBS employees.

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CBS Jericho fans say nuts to network originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 29 May 2007 15:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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