Last week, BoomTown posted on the amazing number of Joker impression videos related to the hit Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” that were popping up all over the Web.
Next up?
Well, it seems the honor will be going to Harry Potter knockoffs and tributes, due to the upcoming sixth movie in the series about the boy wizard, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Another day, another round of internecine battling among the main players of the Internet’s longest-running soap opera.
That would be Yahoo, Microsoft and Carl Icahn.
It is a tussle that will make for daily drama until Yahoo’s August 1 annual meeting, where Icahn is waging a proxy fight for the company.
For shareholders, it’s like deciding the lesser of three evils.
Indeed, this is clearly no Harry Potter versus He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named kind of battle, even though it will be portrayed like that by all sides over the next weeks.
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.
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