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Survey Sunday Roundup: Cultural Infusions

December 25, 2011 by Steven Savage

Just a note, since a lot of you are on vacation, busy, or otherwise occupied, Survey Sunday is going to skip a week. We'll pick it up next week, when you're merely hung over from New Years.

So we asked . . . (and by the way due to a glitch I had to adjust things slightly)

1. Right now there's a lot of media popular in North America that comes from Britain and Japan. So what other countries do you expect to affect North American media in the next decade?

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More SOPA Updates

December 24, 2011 by Steven Savage

It just keeps coming despite the impending holiday.

You may have heard that GoDaddy backed down on sopa. Actually they didn't, they're just waffling.
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame announced the Wikipedia domain names are being moved from GoDady.
Several companies and law firms want off the list of SOPA supporters, and some wonder why they were on there in the first place.
As a reminder, here's that list again.
Just do a check of hastags #sopa or #GoDaddy to see the Twitter Chatter.

So le'ts get to my roundup.

GoDaddy isn't just being smacked, it seems they're being made an example of. I don't know their future, but if you work there, you're probably going to want to keep an open mind on new employment – and remember being there may now tarnish you. I haven't seen this level of hatred for awhile.
SOPA awareness is increasing all the time – and the GoDaddy thing fuels it. Getting SOPA/PIPA through Congress is going to become next to impossible, though I do expect people to try. Stay aware of this.
There are more holes in the "Pro-SOPA/PIPA" alliance than we thought and more are forming. I'm also thinking this makes the US Chamber of Commerce look even worse – and they've been in political crosshairs for awhile for their positions and backing. There may be further political fallout for them, and believe me they're not liked in some areas.
This has increased awareness of how the U.S. government functions – and doesn't. It could become a catalyst or a bigger political issue.
Some companies took a beating in this (most noteably Google). Now's a chance for a turnaround. SOPA non-support could be a powerful political/marketing/reputational tool.
Despite SOPA support some companies are going to get forgiven pretty quickly, let's be honest about that.

– Steven Savage