iMediaConnection: Yahoo! and “The Contender” Partner Yahoo! Inc. announced it has teamed with Mark Burnett Productions to offer a series of online-only fights from the NBC boxing reality show “The Contender”. The online-only boxing event will be shown May 24 on Yahoo!, the official site for “The Condender.” Yahoo! says the content that will air […]
Read more "watch “tv” move to the internet.."iMediaConnection: Yahoo! and “The Contender” Partner Yahoo! Inc. announced it has teamed with Mark Burnett Productions to offer a series of online-only fights from the NBC boxing reality show “The Contender”. The online-only boxing event will be shown May 24 on Yahoo!, the official site for “The Condender.” Yahoo! says the content that will air […]
Read more "watch "tv" move to the internet.."Yahoo forces RIAA staff cutbacks – Blog Maverick – http://www.blogmaverick.com _ The RIAA can no longer claim that students who are downloading music are costing them thousands of dollars each. They cant claim much of anything actually. In essence, Yahoo just turned possession of a controlled music substance into a misdemeanor. Payable by a $5 […]
Read moreWeb-based Self-Publishing Explodes Consider: The way Lulu.com works is, prospective authors pick a layout out of a bunch available on the site. They then place their text into the layout and hit publish. Voila! The book is available for purchase via Lulu.com or, as the case may be, through Amazon.com. Whenever a customer buys a […]
Read more "Web-based Self-Publishing Explodes"Slashdot | BBC Launches APIs The BBC is opening up a slew of APIs to its content and applications via a new site, backstage.bbc.co.uk, and actively encouraging users to remix, mashup, and otherwise play with their content to create new applications. ..the BBC continues to lead the way..
Read more "BBC releases APIs"Mindjack – Piracy is Good? While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in […]
Read more "“Piracy is Good?” or how the taste-leaders promote shows.."Mindjack – Piracy is Good? While you might assume the SciFi Channel saw a significant drop-off in viewership as a result of this piracy, it appears to have had the reverse effect: the series is so good that the few tens of thousands of people who watched downloaded versions told their friends to tune in […]
Read more ""Piracy is Good?" or how the taste-leaders promote shows.."Seth’s Blog: The New Digital Divide … it’s bloggers who are setting the agenda on everything from politics to culture. It’s bloggers that journalists and politicians look to as the first and the loudest. As a result, your most-connected, most influential customers are part of the digerati. They can make or break your product, your […]
Read more "yadda yadda.. blogs are cool.. hence, those that blog are.."Boing Boing: Soderbergh and Cuban, Wagner’s 2929: Let’s break all the windows. Xeni breaks it down: When I interviewed Mark Cuban earlier this year for a Wired Magazine feature on digital cinema (link), one of the things he mentioned about his movie biz plans involved changing the way films are released. Here’s how it works […]
Read more "finally.. film’s getting fan-facing.."New Scientist Breaking News – New drug offers jitter-free mental boost A compound dubbed CX717, a member of the new class called ampakines, significantly improved performance on tests of memory, attention, alertness, reaction time and problem solving in healthy men deprived of sleep. … Ampakines work by binding to particular receptors in the brain, called […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 