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		<title>Occupy Cable Television</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While consumers just successfully pulled an Occupy Verizon Wireless, forcing Verizon Wireless to retreat from a plan to charge certain customers $2 to pay bills over the phone, it is inconceivable to me why there are not Occupy Time Warner Cable and Occupy MSG Network movements.   The latest cable provider vs. cable programmer feud  begs for consumers to rise up and initiate an Occupy Cable Television movement.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=391&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suit Up &#8211; Sooner Than Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real life experience has shown that utilizing financial expertise at every step of your business’ life saves money, reduces risk and volatility, facilitates balanced decision-making, and allows founders to focus on their specialties. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=371&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So You Think You Can Beat Us All By Yourself?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Polakoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “So You Think You Can Beat Us All By Yourself? ”Teamwork Advice for the Start-Up “Attention please:  Attention. There’s been a slight change in the Tea Totallers line-up.  Catching -  Bugs Bunny; Left field &#8211; Bugs Bunny; Right field &#8211; Bugs Bunny; Pitching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=364&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Porn is Prologue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “What&#8217;s Porn is Prologue” In my worldwide media industry travels, I readily learned that two genres of programming cross borders and languages:  nature documentaries and adult entertainment.  The latter content category has been a major driver in consumer penetration (no pun intended) of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=355&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Own The Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Polakoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “Own the Audience” Whatever the distribution means (television, internet, mobile), you should want to own your audience with your content and earn brand loyalty.  The entertainment, news, and information content world is fragmented, by the expansion of offerings and the convenience of accessibility; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=346&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rogue Wave</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Polakoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “Rogue Wave&#8221; Within the time span of about a week, there has been a wave of corporate rogue initiatives: four Hollywood movie studios announced plans for a premium video-on-demand service (60 days from theatrical release) on DirecTV, without notifying theatre owners; Amazon announced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=335&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pitch n Putz</title>
		<link>http://davidpolakoff.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/pitch-n-putz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “Pitch n Putz” A brilliant speech, delivered by King George VI, before his terrible stammer was cured by speech therapist, Lionel Logue (as depicted in the 2010 Academy Award, best picture winning The King’s Speech), would have been lost in translation; that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=298&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Winter of Our Content Distribution Discontent</title>
		<link>http://davidpolakoff.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/the-winter-of-our-content-distribution-discontent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Polakoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff “The Winter of Our Content Distribution Discontent” Leslie Nielsen, as The Captain, in The Poseidon Adventure, answers a boat phone and asks, “What is it, lookout?” The lookout responds, “On the port bow…I’ve never seen anything like it. An enormous wall of water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=285&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cut the Cake…I Mean Cord</title>
		<link>http://davidpolakoff.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/cut-the-cake%e2%80%a6i-mean-cord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff &#8220;Cut the Cake…I Mean Cord&#8220; The Animal House, Delta Tau Chi fraternity boys seek revenge on Dean Wormer and Faber College by “cutting the cake;” slicing a rope, which converts their decorated cake parade float into the 1966 Lincoln Continental, reborn, “Deathmobile,” and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=265&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Better Living Through TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Polakoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Windmills of My Immediate Mind Media Business Strategies – David Polakoff &#8220;Better Living Through TV&#8221; In The Honeymooner’s episode, Better Living Through TV, Ralph and Ed try to sell the Handy Housewife Helper, an all-in-one kitchen tool, where none of the combined features, can opener, knife sharpener, potato peeler, etc.,  do anything better than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidpolakoff.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6667511&amp;post=252&amp;subd=davidpolakoff&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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