
Michael Eisner created a successful web series (some 20 million people have seen Prom Queen), exported it for overseas syndication, and even managed to make some cash while doing it. That's pretty much enough evidence to argue that, post-Disney, it is Eisner who gets the last laugh among his former colleagues and current critics.
Now his Web studio Vuguru is back with a second web series, The All-For-Nots, about a fictional indie rock band; that's enough of a news peg to warrant a Grey Lady follow up.
So is Eisner the new media mogul we're led to believe? A profitable web drama, with another show on the way (complete with major product placement!), doesn't yet get him there. But it will be interesting to gauge Eisner's success against another mainstream refugee: Atoosa Rubenstein, who voluntarily left the confines of corporatedom (as opposed to Eisner's ousting) for the digital arena. She's kept herself busy by blogging on Huffington Post, releasing Alpha Kitty videos on Huffington Post, and getting pregnant. But she's also got her sights set on Web video. Plus, she's got like forty thousand MySpace friends, and Eisner doesn't even have a profile … that we know of.

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