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Seth MacFarlane’s Stirs Up New Trouble -- and Racks Up Another Hit

Did Family Guy go too far in its recent episode that suggested Nazis would have supported the McCain-Palin ticket? Does Seth MacFarlane care? Not likely, if his continuing string of hits is any indication.READ»

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FG Now

Last night, Fox aired the first new episode of Family Guy since February 2002. For the first time ever, a show that was canceled has come back years later due to home video (and cable reruns). This is a clear display how a new ...READ»

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Jingle All the Way

Last Sunday, I was watching Family Guy, and a laptop commercial came up. At the end they showed the Intel logo and played their jingle. It was short, only four or five notes. And I unconsciously mimicked them out loud, ...READ»

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Windows-Backed Family Guy Adds to Unemployment Rolls

We'll address the gigantic sell-out that is Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show (brought to you buy Windows 7) in a moment. But the more immediate news is that the Windows 7 party-people are going to have to ...READ»

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Seth MacFarlane’s $2 Billion Family Guy Empire

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has built an empire of staggering proportions that nabbed him a record $100 million deal with Fox. And, with an innovative new series of animated shorts distributed by Google -- "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" -- he’s even teaching the search giant new ways to exploit the Web. Could this crude frat-boy cartoonist really be a model for business in the postmodern age?READ»

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'Family Guy's MacFarlane Not PC Enough for Microsoft, Windows 7 Deal Pulled

Showing just how unhip being a PC can be, Microsoft has pulled out of a prime time Windows 7 sponsorship of a special by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. According to Microsoft, MacFarlane's style didn't "fit with the Windows ...READ»

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Even Gazillionaires Get Stuck Behind the Velvet Rope

Family Guy creator and our November cover subject Seth MacFarlane is denied entrance to a Hollywood bar, but he brushes it off and decides to turn the tables on the doorman. Looks like creating a $2 billion media empire hasn't changed the easy-going writer/producer.READ»

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New Bill May Outlaw ISP Data Caps; Nerds Relieved

Earlier this year, Time Warner Cable began trialing the use of data caps on its broadband service. It later abandoned the project after a welter of bad publicity, but the encounter scared a lot of Web users into believing we need ...READ»

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Do You Separate Yourself From the Clutter?

Separate yourself from the clutter. It sounds simple, yet so many companies are incapable of doing it successfully. My favorite bar is my favorite bar because nobody goes there. I can go typically at any point during the week ...READ»

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Cut Your Cable: Hulu's Top 10 TV Shows

1 Family Guy You can get the five most recent episodes and more than 300 clips of Seth MacFarlane's crude cartoon. Hulu's most-watched episode as of September: "Stew-roids." 2 The Office The show is also among NBC's ...READ»

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Editor's Letter: Comedy & Tragedy

Two years ago, while an editor at another business magazine, I worked with a writer on a major feature about the then-thriving Lehman Brothers. He was enamored of CEO Dick Fuld and his purported mastery of bond-market risk. "Fuld's ...READ»

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iFive: GM and Chrysler to Get Bailed Out Again, Peter Chernin Meets Peter Griffin, and Amazon-Digg? in Today's Innovation News

While you were sleeping, innovation plotted its comeback. Here's today's innovation news: President Obama's auto task force appears ready to keep GM and Chrysler afloat with more bailout loans, pending concessions from ...READ»

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Burger King's New Web Site Becomes Hub For Advertising Favorites

The Subservient Chicken is back. Burger King has revamped its web site, creating a multimedia home for some of its best-known but long since retired advertising efforts, as well as the corporate and nutritional information that has ...READ»

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Hulu Streaming to U.K. in September? Not Until ITV and Channel 4 Are Satisfied

American TV aficionados living in the U.K. will get a fabulous gift in September, when web-TV streaming company Hulu opens its service there, according to new rumors. But as well as endless Stargate and Family Guy, they'll also get ...READ»

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Who Will Be the Godfather of Web Video?

Well-funded, big-studio-backed comedy-video Web sites have taken more hits than they've made. Does anyone have a plan that's not a joke? READ»

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Technology: Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony Show-Off for E3

The three game console creators have kicked off this year's E3 -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- with their respective press conferences. As the console war heats up, these press conferences gain new significance as the gaming ...READ»

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Urban Outfitters

The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth.READ»

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Seven Tiny Tech Stories That Will Be Huge

Progress isn't all breakout products and scientific coups. In fact, some of the most salient indicators of the direction of technology come in re-directions of products and services we use every day. Here are seven subtle changes to ...READ»

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The New Faces of Social Media

From YouTube celebrities to chief social-media officers, these unexpected players exert outsize impact and power online -- offering new channels of communication that businesses can't afford to ignore.READ»

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Felicia Day and The Guild's Path to Level 80 Digital Success

The Guild may not be on network television, but with millions of downloads and a third season starting, Felicia Day is proving that a geek community is better than broadcast.READ»

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Phineas and Ferb Take the Boys' Market by Storm

"Phineas and Ferb" is the hippest, nerdiest, unlikeliest hit on TV -- and now Disney hopes it can be a SpongeBob-like cash cow.READ»