Wired News: Bands Embrace Social Networking MySpace is aimed at teenagers. It claims more than 15 million members, and even established acts like Weezer, Beck and Billy Corgan are starting to realize the potential of social networking. Weezer’s new album, Make Believe, is prominently featured on the band’s MySpace page, and was featured exclusively in […]
Read more "..Bands Embrace Social Networking.."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 moreWired News: The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth America’s entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe’s biggest broadcasters — the BBC — is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it.
Read more "Cory covers the brave BBC"All reports indicate that Alyson Hannigans CBS romantic comedy, How I Met Your Mother, has received a series order, and could be on the air as early as autumn. … Her co-star in the flashback-happy skein is TVs Doogie, Neil Patrick Harris. It was created by former Late Show With David Letterman writers Carter Bays […]
Read more "Willow and Doogie, sitting in a tree.."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.."Kung Fu Monkey: Podcasting Galactica Ron Moore is doing podcasts on each episode, like little downloadable director’s commentaries. But not, because in TV we writers are king, as IT SHOULD BE — ahem. Anyway, he’s not charging for them, just plowing them out, keeping his fans interested and creating value-added to his show which is […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 