Director James Cameron speaking at Microsoft's advance08 advertising conference today in Seattle, pitching his new flick Avatar and making a menacing gesture. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments, and the winning one will become the new headline on this post. Friday's winner, in a close one: Tim Faulkner, for "Master Lodwick has trained his young padawan well in the ways of the fameball.." (Photo by AP/Stephen Brashear)

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, now the backer of online entertainment studio Vuguru through his company Tornante, stopped by Microsoft's Advance08 this morning to deliver his diagnosis of what ails the entertainment business. Calling YouTube "old news," he says that storytelling online will inevitably progress from "the salacious and the stupid" (good luck with that). But he also pointed out that by enabling content producers, companies like Yahoo, Microsoft or News Corp. could create a competitor to the current distribution rackets: