Disney's $80 million mistake: Fahrenheit 911

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Disney's RSS 0.93

Disney's RSS 0.93 10/31/2003 09:23 AM

Dave Winer noted some 23 new feeds from ABC news.  What is particularly interesting about these feeds is that they are marked as RSS 0.93, complete with a DTD copyright Walt Disney Internet Group.  The DOCTYPE also indicates this ownership.  The version number is repeated in the URL itself.

The channel on these feeds don't have a description (despite being required by the DTD).  Pubdates seem to be in a compressed form of the ISO 8601 format.  Links are expressed as CDATA (which is OK), but some of the links have an extraneous double quote character at the end of the URL (which is not).

Disney's PC

Disney's PC 08/06/2004 07:52 AM
Disney has launched a $900 kids' PC, called the Disney Dream Desk. Looks like complete poo. While the mouse-ears on the wildly overpriced $300 CRT monitor are vaguely cute, the system lacks any of the industrial-design whimsy of the old Disney VCR< /a> and TV, which geniuinely appeared to belong in a Disney theme park.

What's more, Disney's Unique Sales Propositions for their PC is that it comes with censorware that will keep your children from looking at porn (and about one-third of the sites that deal well with concepts covered in the common curriculum, oops), and some DRMed-up make-your-own-Disney-video software. Snore.

Oh and it comes with a mouse. Hardy har har. Link (Thanks, Scotto!)

Update: Benoit sez, "The monitor is actually a flat panel LCD. It looks like a CRT in that picture you have but that's actually the computer tower placed behind the LCD."

Disney's Dividend

Disney's Dividend 07/12/2004 09:04 AM
The company may be on the verge of making shareholders happier.

Disney's New Mouse

Disney's New Mouse 08/09/2004 10:04 AM
Disney tries to compute with its latest big-ticket offering.

Disney's Trap

Disney's Trap 05/06/2004 11:34 AM
Disney's decision to block the release of Michael Moore's new film plunges it into a political boondoggle.

Disney's Nightmare?

Disney's Nightmare? 03/30/2005 06:13 PM
It won't be working with M. Night Shyamalan on his next film. Will that hurt the Mouse's studio division?

Disney's Big Cheese

Disney's Big Cheese 05/13/2004 08:10 AM
Disney scores a great quarter in a sea of turmoil.

Disney's Haunted Village

Disney's Haunted Village 08/03/2004 01:07 PM
"The Village" was the No. 1 movie over the weekend... but is it enough to break Disney's movie slump?

"Disney's Craven Behavior"

"Disney's Craven Behavior" 05/08/2004 02:09 AM

Disney's Mindful Moves

Disney's Mindful Moves 08/11/2004 09:47 AM
Disney keeps inching toward home, minding the mousetraps along the way.

Disney's "Arthur" No Legend

Disney's "Arthur" No Legend 07/13/2004 12:11 PM
With a disappointing opening, this film might already be history.

Walt Disney's FBI files

Walt Disney's FBI files 12/04/2003 07:19 PM
Walt Disney's FBI files are a hoot -- all 450 pages worth. Mostly, they consist of various Feebs (all the way up to Hoover, whom field agents call "The Boss") fretting that Disney's farce comedies like That Darn Cat (which was based on a novel written by a retired Agent who was a constant thorn in the Bureau's side) would cast a disparaging light on the Bureau and speculating about how to convince Walt to change the FBI agents to a different species of Fed cop -- SS, Park Ranger, anything but the G-Men. Also noteworthy: trying to figure out if Walt is a Commie, debating whether they should let Walt film the crime-lab as part of a Mickey Mouse Club "future careers" spot. 2.8MB PDF Link, 3MB PDF Link, 2.7MB PDF Link

Disney's x-rated fare

Disney's x-rated fare 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
The original plates for the famous parody work (that was never sued over) Disneyland Memorial Orgy, is on sale at eBay. Here's the whole story on the piece, which ran in 1967 in a small underground newspaper and was created by Paul Krassner. I bet a copyright/trademark lawyer with a sense of humor buys this to mount over his desk soon.

Disney's Retirement Fanning

Disney's Retirement Fanning 04/20/2004 08:36 AM
With Eisner, Disney's 401(k) went for the KO.

Disney's own digital divide

Disney's own digital divide 02/11/2004 09:44 PM
CNET Feb 12 2004 1:34AM GMT

Disney's Global Magic

Disney's Global Magic 01/03/2005 05:56 PM
Disney wants to promote its parks through a fresh global campaign that also highlights Disneyland's 50th anniversary.

Saving Disney's World

Saving Disney's World 04/23/2004 08:02 AM
Disney may have lost the keys to quality, but the spares aren't too far away.

Disney's Global Conquest

Disney's Global Conquest 09/02/2004 01:30 PM
The Buena Vista International unit achieved more than $1 billion in box office gross. Does it really matter?

Disney's Miramax Morass

Disney's Miramax Morass 08/12/2004 11:47 AM
Miramax has an uncertain future with Disney at this point.

my mistake

my mistake 04/11/2005 04:10 AM
I screwed up an update on the last entry, and seem to have lost the comments, which I hadn't read after the first few. I apologize, and will see if there's a way to recover.

My $45,000 Mistake

My $45,000 Mistake 06/30/2004 11:27 AM
The heartening story of a Fool's journey out of debt.

Disney's "Alamo" may be a losing battle

Disney's "Alamo" may be a losing battle 04/12/2004 06:17 PM

DVD-Day for Disney's WWII films
(USATODAY.com)

DVD-Day for Disney's WWII films
(USATODAY.com) 05/18/2004 12:01 PM
USATODAY.com - Hollywood is still abuzz over the Walt Disney Co.'s refusal to let its Miramax division distribute director Michael Moore's new documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, which is critical of President Bush.

Disney's 'Alamo' May Be a Losing Battle
(AP)

Disney's 'Alamo' May Be a Losing Battle
(AP) 04/12/2004 08:48 PM
AP - Disney may want to forget "The Alamo." The much-hyped historical film, which cost as much as $140 million to make and market, met box office disaster during its opening weekend, pulling in only $9.1 million and leading some analysts to trim second-quarter earnings estimates for The Walt Disney Co.

Disney's Desktop Pony Download

Disney's Desktop Pony Download 11/14/2003 01:14 AM
Disney's Desktop Pony, as featured in Disney’s Princess Royal Horse Show CD-Rom Game. In the land of once upon a time, in a place where dreams come true, there lives a special little pony. She is sweet as sugar and hopes to grow up and become a real Disney Royal Horse one day. This sweet little pony is so loved by all of the Disney Princesses that they decided to share her special magic with you!

We Made a Mistake, OK?

We Made a Mistake, OK? 01/24/2004 06:43 AM
Although insisting their research is sound, researchers admit that they gave the wrong source for a compound that produces an antiviral factor to fight AIDS.

Disney's WWII veneral disease movie

Disney's WWII veneral disease movie 01/02/2004 05:59 AM
Nice review of Disney's anti-VD movie, produced for the US military during WWII.

The next scene is of an animated germ wearing a spiked Kaiser helmet, the Sergeant (played by Keenan Wynn -- perhaps best known for his role as Colonel 'Bat' Guano in Dr. Strangelove) briefing his troops of the Contagion Corps. The troops are syphilis and gonorrhea germs that wear berets with their initials on them ('S' and 'G').

Link (via Smartpatrol< /a>)

Disney's Haunted Mansion DVD sports OS X
content

Disney's Haunted Mansion DVD sports OS X
content 07/07/2004 09:25 AM
The Walt Disney Co. and InterActual on Wednesday announced that the new Disney DVD release of The Haunted Mansion is the first such title to provide enhanced bonus content for Mac OS X. Although such enhanced content on DVD movie releases is nothing new, it's often been limited to users of Windows-compatible PCs only.

Disney's California Adventure is a ghost
town

Disney's California Adventure is a ghost
town 06/03/2004 03:31 PM
You've probably heard about the US Department of Energy's efforts to create a landmark to warn people to stay away from nuclear waste dumps in Nevada and New Mexico. The mission is to create some kind of warning system that will last for 10,000 years, and still be effective at delivering a message of danger that people in the distant future can comprehend. It's tough --the DOE has hired artists, architects, anthropologists, etc., but everything those people come up with to scare future generations away ends up looking more like a lure.

Here's what the DOE should do: hire Michael Eisner to design a theme park over the radioactive dumps. They'll never have to worry about anyone setting foot there again. As Boing Boing readers Vorbis comments on this photoessay of Disney's California Adventure Theme Park: "lookit how deserted this place seems to be not too long after the opening of the major ride." Link

Disney's Animated Investor (Los Angeles
Times)

Disney's Animated Investor (Los Angeles
Times) 01/26/2004 12:44 PM
Los Angeles Times - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Walt Disney Co. needs a real-life prince.

Disney's Cowardice Grows as Its
Influence Shrinks

Disney's Cowardice Grows as Its
Influence Shrinks 05/05/2004 08:23 AM
Media concentration is often too easy a target. A lot of what the left, right, big, and small complain about in media spaces is the result of basic human weakness and cowardice. That's not to say it's not a big problem. It's just not the only problem. Every once in...

Disney's Eisner to Step Down in Sept
2006

Disney's Eisner to Step Down in Sept
2006 09/10/2004 04:46 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 10 2004 8:50PM GMT

Sun's Microsoft Mistake

Sun's Microsoft Mistake 04/10/2004 08:33 PM

How do you ask someone to be the 1,000th
person to die for a mistake?

How do you ask someone to be the 1,000th
person to die for a mistake? 09/08/2004 06:53 AM
How do you ask someone to be the 1,000th person to die for a mistake? Of course there are people who say the US Media is playing down the casualties. But why would a powerful country need to lie about its losses?

Countinuing iPods A Mistake

Countinuing iPods A Mistake 04/12/2005 04:10 AM

The university should not try to mask PR intentions under the guise of academic enrichment, and it should not continue a program that has been unsuccessful in the past. By Duke University Chronicle

prebinding: A 4.5 Hour Mistake

prebinding: A 4.5 Hour Mistake 03/06/2004 02:10 AM
Sigh, I really, really hate the fact that OS X requires prebinding for Mach-O applications (which is most now days)....

My Huge Mistake about the Mini

My Huge Mistake about the Mini 08/19/2004 05:33 AM
Business Week Aug 19 2004 10:02AM GMT

Disney's Eisner holds out hope for Pixar
deal

Disney's Eisner holds out hope for Pixar
deal 06/03/2004 12:24 PM
Pixar's public announcement that it won't be working with Disney after the end of its current distribution deal hasn't stopped Disney CEO Michael Eisner from holding out hope that the two studios can broker some sort of arrangement. "I will not believe it is over until it is over," he said to investors during a recent Webcast conference, according to Forbes. In late January, Pixar announced that it had ended efforts to extend its seven-picture distribution deal with Disney, which will expire after the companies release "The Incredibles" and "Cars." In announcing the end of the effort, Pixar CEO Steve Jobs said it was "a shame that Disney won't be participating in Pixar's future successes."

Disney's 'Alamo' Bombs, Comcast Move
Debated

Disney's 'Alamo' Bombs, Comcast Move
Debated 04/12/2004 10:05 PM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 13 2004 2:20AM GMT
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