BoomTown is spending the day at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Wash., interviewing a passel of execs about the Yahoo online advertising and search partnership.
But, while here, I have not been able to resist trotting out this very funny puppet video by 1938 Media of sweat-stained Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gone wild, screaming about how he smoked the Yahoo partnership, to every Softie I see.
Because I am that sensitive.
Finally, the kind of response this whole increasingly silly circus around TechCrunch publishing the Twitter stolen documents deserves.
Funny, rude and pretty much the only good way to excuse it all, via expletives deleted, courtesy of 1938 Media.
Now, BoomTown can go back to real issues, such as obsessing about when the Yahoo deal with Microsoft will drop, if ever!
The ubiquitous puppet interviewer (not) Shel Israel–who BoomTown has definitively determined is powered by the hand of the very funny Loren Feldman of 1938 Media–came to ATD HQ (a.k.a., the cottage behind my house) yesterday for a lovely chat.
Sorting through the online catfight between video blogger Loren Feldman and social media blogger Shel Israel would surely give BoomTown a big fat migraine.
But it includes puppets and who doesn’t love a roiling puppet-war?
No one, that’s who!
So here are two recent ones Feldman posted on his 1938 Media site, one with his Shel puppet and [...]
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »
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