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Let’s pretend for a moment that the Olympics were about pure athleticism, the thrill of amateur athletes pursuing their dreams, and the overwhelming sentiment that we CAN all come together as one world, free of politics or finance.

Well, if that were indeed the case, instead of the reality that the IOC is a profit making money machine intent on protecting it’s global monopoly; well then the image below would actually be an embedded video player, and you’d be able to watch Olympics video from any one of the millions of blogs that would be syndicating it.  Instead, this is merely a screen shot and when you click on it you’ll go to their site, so you can see a Panasonic ad banner along with your videos.  <sigh>

It doesn’t get much more meta than this. As part of a UW student’s project, in which he interviewed folks about Social Media, I got a side question about Social Media for personal brands.

So here I am, on the web site I keep to somewhat maintain my own personal brand, repurposing content from this site,which Derek uses to maintain his own personal brand, talking about why it’s important to have a personal brand.

(And a side note, apparently my personal brand is to have a huge head, tilt it at a 45 degree angle, and make funny faces at the end of videos.)

Thanks to Forbes.com for putting this handy Super Bowl Ad Viewer together.

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To celebrate Who Dat Nation’s Independence Day, let’s have the great Satchmo tell us the story…

This is interesting.  When did the Seattle Times sell their “background” as part of an ad?  I wasn’t aware they were doing that.

(Disclosure: I have worked on marketing projects for Microsoft.)

Online readers of the Miami Herald have a new option – donate to the paper.  Are newspapers the new PBS?