The Ultimate Gaming Desk
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George Lucas believes movie downloads are the future
“As it is now, a film’s budget can have a great influence on it’s success but in an era of downloadable content, that might not be the case.”

Dismal 3Q Earnings Expected for Newspaper Sector
“They forecast a 6% average year-over-year decline in the industry’s 3Q earnings per share.”

Google snaps up YouTube for $1.65 billion
EVERYONE IS ALL OVER THIS. But it should be noted Tech Crunch blogger Mike Arrington was right and he scored the first scoop before any of the rest of the ‘traditional’ media.

CrunchNotes » I’ve Had A Long Weekend
“… I wanted to go because the organizers said I’d be welcome, and that the people who attend (traditional journalists) really were trying to understand this whole blogging phenomenon. So I went. And what a mistake it was. I thought this was going to be an attempt to bridge the gap between blogging and big media. All I saw was a fear and an unassailable resistance to change.” I already told him this after the event but I dug most of what he was saying. Although he kind of shot himself in the foot with the whole reporters and their sources thing (which is actually pretty accurate from what I’ve seen), I think most of his points were very valid, yet fell on deaf ears in ivory towers. Thanks for coming, Mike.

News-Record.com’s Editor discusses “The impact of community” on their paper and website
This should be posted in every newsroom in the world.
Another local TV station launches user video section
Warning–there’s a 50388324 minute Flash intro on this site. (Or at least it felt that long to me.)

Huge Lego Star Wars Ship (Via Digg)
Star Wars + Legos = Link from Journerdism.com

Web use overtakes newspapers and magazines
Booya.