APRIL 5, 2011 Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt. By PAUL D. RYAN Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether we cut $33 billion or $61 billion—that is,

Hulu On Track To Generate $500 Million In Revenue This Year. Hulu is on pace to generate $500 million in revenue this year, CEO Jason Kilar revealed in a blog post tonight. He also says “the content community” will earn $300 million this year from Hulu. Other details from Kilar’s post: Hulu Plus will have over 1 million subscribers by year end. Hulu worked with 289 advertisers in Q1 2011,

The GOP needs to go after the waste in gov’t first, and then use the new found budget credibility to go after the entitlements… If I were Boehner/McConnell I’d make the head of GAO and his team a true national hero for being true budget watchdogs and make it a point to implement in full the recommendations for savings through 2012. Then use the 2012 election to run on a

More Ways for Brands to Communicate on a Personal Level Published: March 10, 2011 David Berkowitz This week, Facebook will begin rolling out its redesign to all pages that haven’t already been switched over to its new format. The overhaul makes the pages look and feel more like user profiles. Facebook hopes this will create a more cohesive experience across the platform for its more than 600 million users.These changes

Why 2011 will be do-or-die for TV January 17, 2011 | Ty Braswell Ty Braswell, founder of Creative Digital Strategies, is a consultant specializing in growing mobile TV revenues for companies including the NHL and Major League Soccer and was Virgin Records VP of New Media during the early Napster years. Working for the very hip Virgin Records back in 1999, I saw first hand how the Napster phenomenon decimated

Five Wishes for Movie Marketing This Year – Advertising Age – MediaWorks. Betty White Aside, Did ‘You Again’ Really Need Its Own Twitter Feed? by Chris Thilk Published: January 12, 2011 Since last month you haven’t been able to swing a Dramatic Chipmunk around the web without bumping into one set of predictions or another. Many opined about how 2011 will be the year we finally crack the mobile advertising

Toward A New Economic Consensus – Forbes.com. Charles W. Kadlec, 01.03.11, 01:30 PM EST Low tax rates and reduced spending are increasingly accepted economic wisdom. The economics profession is near a new consensus on how to stimulate economic growth: –Reduce marginal tax rates; –Cut government spending. That is the implication of Stanford Professor Michael J. Boskin’s summary of the academic research on this important question in his Wall Street Journal

4 Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2011. Tim Ferriss is an angel investor (Twitter, StumbleUpon, Evernote, etc.) and author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek. In his spare time, Tim has doctors stab pen-sized needles into his thighs. Ah, social media marketing. Fewer things are so lavishly spent on, yet so poorly measured. Here are a few predictions for 2011 related to

APRIL 23, 2010 The Real Republican Civil War The struggle between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist for the Florida Senate seat symbolizes the rift between the reformers and the establishment in the GOP. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Marco Rubio appeared on a Sunday talk show this month to say something remarkable. The Republican running for Florida’s Senate seat suggested we reform Social Security by raising the retirement age for younger

October 24, 2010 2:07 PM Mitch Joel – Six Degrees of Separation It annoys many people when they follow you on Twitter and you do not follow them back. Too bad. Don’t do it. The only people you should follow on Twitter are people who are immediately interesting to you or people who might become interesting to you. Ignore the rest. I know, this doesn’t sound very “social media,” but