Regarding the Crumbling/Rising Music Business

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Heard a music producer last week rant about how iTunes is killing the music business. He thought that the 99-cent download doesn't float the traditional music industry, and that forcing consumers into $10+ full albums were the way to ...

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Top 10 Web Creators

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Daisy Whitney has a great examination of ten top web series creators. Some are backed by big media companies (Sony/Crackle, MSN), some are fiercely independent (Ask A Ninja's Kent Nichols and Doug Sarine, Felicia Day), and some came from the traditional ...

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SNL: Space Olympics

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Last weekend, NBC tried to keep the Beijing gold going with Michael Phelps hosting the season premiere of Saturday Night Live. I know it's been three weeks or so since the Olympics, but I had almost forgotten about him. ...

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Recap: Iron Man Screening with Live Commentary from Favreau and Downey Jr.

Friday, September 12th, 2008

I'm ashamed of myself for taking this long to write about it, but last Saturday I went a screening of Iron Man at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. It was billed to feature live commentary from director Jon Favreau (over ...

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Introducing the New MadTV Cast

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

MadTV has always been a distant cousin to my first love, Saturday Night Live. But I was impressed with I saw these introduction videos of the 14th season's new cast members Eric Price, Erica Ash, and Matt Braunger. (14 seasons? ...

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Fast Company Lists the Funny

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Fast Company's Fast Take Email mentioned today a few articles its done about online comedy. It notably mentions nine "Top Funny Sites," and I thought I'd share (along some of my favorites comedy pieces): Fark.com The Onion (Ghost Of Christmas Future ...

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N Came and Went, But What Did it Mean?

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I've lauded Stephen King's N. as the best web series I'd seen in a long time, but it ended with an awkward "okay, that's done now." Now what? As a fan, what am I supposed to do? Buy the book? ...

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