• A peek at the man behind Nick’s tween live-action machine (The New York Times)
• Magnetix legal woes could mean hard times ahead for Mega Brands (The Globe and Mail)
• WiFi-enabled Sansa Connect aims to take on iPod (The Wall Street Journal)
• Meanwhile iPod reaches 100 million sales mark (The Wall Street Journal)
• Podcasts attract audiences, but revenue – Not so much (paidcontent.org)
• UK toy retailer Hamleys crafting new prototype store (PR Leap)
• Time Warner picks up new Disney Hi-Def channels for cable carriage (The Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft offering free Zune with subs to stem iTunes tide? (Gadget Lab)
• Consumers favor short online viewing experiences (Online Media Daily)
• Doubleclick sets up ‘stock’ exchange for the buying and selling of digital ads (The New York Times)
• Major US$16 billion shakeup of Australian retail in the works (Retail Merchandiser)
• Japan: A nation of armchair animators? (Businessweek)
• Bandai crafts a US$500,000 action figure. That’s right, US$500,000 (Platinum Today)
• More food for thought on the fight to control web video (The New York Times)
• Meet The Robinsons US$25 million weekend a letdown? (The Wall Street Journal)
• Broadband use does not lead to mobile surfing (Online Media Daily)
• What can Viacom expect from suing Google? 5,000 lawyers and a mountain of legal fees (Forbes)
• Photobucket: The site behind social networking phenoms MySpace and FaceBook (CNN Money)
• Family Dollar sales shoot up 12.2% to US$1.947 billion in Q2 (Retail Merchandiser)
• Do online and cable users see things differently? (Online Media Daily)
• Alpha moms: a new (perhaps surly) breed of parent? (USA Today)
• Xbox 360 upgrade will enable transmission of HD content (paidcontent.org)
• All hail Potter’s deathly (and final) book cover (cbc.ca)
• Junk food ads targeting kids in spotlight again (The Wall Street Journal)
• Get a leg up on the competition by getting naked at the corporate level (Wired)
• YouTube award winners announced, check out Kiwi (YouTube)
• Mobile phone site ratings in the works (Mediaweek)
• The potential of next-gen consoles to act as ‘media vending machines’ (MediaPost)
• Guangdong toy exports up 5.9%, but EU sanctions starting to take toll (TDC Trade)
• A look behind the spin at Wal-Mart (The New Yorker)
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