December 2010
20 posts
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Jim Emerson's Scanners Blog: The Naked Truth About... →
* As I’ve long said (because it’s so obvious), studio executives are not in the movie business, they are in the risk management business (which is also known as the job preservation business). Today, of course, all corporations are virtually the same — they consist of fronts for investments in other companies, no matter what goods or services they stamp with their logo —...
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National Journal: FCC Quietly Selling Net... →
At the invitation of the Senate Commerce Committee, FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick and top advisers from the chairman’s office will brief bipartisan staffers Friday [today] from noon to 1p.m. in room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building. On the House side, the commission will conduct a similar briefing at 2pm in room 2123 of the Rayburn building.
Un-freaking-believable…a...
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WatchFCC Commissioner Copps speaking at Columbia School of Journalism on the current state of media & journalism. He’s one of webseries & indie media’s few hopes.
http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/257
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We Are All Famous To A Few People: Confessions of... →
joewilsontv:
WRITING IS ORCHESTRATED DAYDREAMING. Writing is not work, it’s daydreaming on paper. The work is actually sitting down and doing it. I’ve never been asked how to write a web series, until last week. The questions included how to structure a series, both an episode and an entire season. …
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Oderint Dum Metuant: The Wizard Of Oz →
The problem with people who assume that we’re fucking morons is that they are not always right. The other problem with people who assume that we’re fucking morons is that they are dead wrong more often than they are right. The other problem with people who assume that we’re fucking morons is that they very rarely listen to anybody else, so they’re acting alone and giving...
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PaidContent.Org: What Netflix Wants Next (Hint:... →
Yo Netflix I already own all the Oz DVD seasons & while streaming them is a nice convenience (meaning I don’t have to fish them out of my vast store of DVDs to watch them) with the current fire sale pricing of DVDs, it might be cheaper for me to buy the older titles so I can avoid being a ‘monthly payment consumer’ i.e. I have to pay a bill every month, I don’t own a...
“An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a...”
– Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says | Raw Story (via lkm)
These guys are lucky I don’t have kids…I’m already on Team Domestic Extremist
Vampire Mob in first place for Best Vampire...
vampiremob:
May we borrow three clicks?
Click the banner, click Vampire Mob, click vote - That’s it!
http://suburbanvampire.blogspot.com/2010/11/vote-for-best-vampire-movies-tv-series.html
Done & spreading the word.
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NY Times: A New Test Is Proposed in Licensing... →
Dear Santa,
I’d like to propose we let Commissioner Copps be chair of the FCC & demote the current chairman to a plain old commissioner. Copps has put himself before the public, allowed me to meet him, shake his hand, look him in the eye & tell him what needs to be done, listened carefully & taken me seriously. He is my idea of a true public servant. Can you get us some more...
A Snuggie? No, even worse... →
Oh these are so very wrong…other than maybe going through TSA screening easier, they are just not useful.
Somebody needs to make them in Pepto Bismol pink, with rabbit ears on the hood & a cotton tail on the dropseat.
Definitely going to have nightmares about this tonight…
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Public Knowledge: Gigi Sohn's Blog: And Away We... →
How fitting that Gigi made this observation on the eve of the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her bus seat. I am increasingly convinced that this is my generation’s civil rights fight & we will be judged on the kind of virtual space we leave for generations to come:
Since the order largely follows the never-introduced legislative framework developed by...
TSA male agents target female travellers (w/poll) →
Oy vey TSA!
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Consumers Union's Hear Us Now .Org →
Wow is this an awesome site from the people who bring you Consumer Reports magazine. If you surf around a bit, you’ll see they are taking admirable stands on stopping further media consolidation, net neutrality, preserving an open internet & making sure bills for telecom services of all kinds are fair.
The Pirate Bay, everything is IRL but not AFK. →
tanya77:
mikehudack:
seanbonner:
ellens:
When did you meet [fellow defendant Gottfrid] for the first time IRL?” asked the Prosecutor. “We do not use the expression IRL,” said Peter, “we use AFK.” “IRL?” questioned the judge. “In Real Life,” the Prosecutor explained to the judge. “We do not use that expression,” Peter noted. “Everything is in real life. We use AFK—Away From Keyboard.”...
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November 2010
14 posts
Mysterious Death at Motion Picture Home Has... →
As I understood it from the MPTF powers that be, dementia & Alzheimers patients weren’t supposed to be affected by the closures & the personnel cuts. Bullshit. If someone’s dead from an accident like this & they had dementia it’s all on the people mismanaging MPTF.
GigaOm: Level 3, Comcast in a Cat Fight Over... →
…I’m with Matt Wood of Media Access Project on this, this is not a mere ‘cat fight’
…and I’m also with others in calling bullshit on Comcast saying this is a mere peering dispute
The FCC spanked Comcast over traffic interference before and that was back in 2008 for way more controversial BitTorrent usage.
This is all about how Netflix (which many consumers...
Kardashian sisters bagging teen debit Kard idea... →
Looks like today these girls just figured out you can go too far with marketing yourself
And holy cow the fees!
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Public Knowledge, Free Press, Media Access... →
And yeah it’s not just Level 3 Comcast is screwing with. Little modem maker Zoom is being asked to jump through hoops that also violate net neutrality principles to get Comcast-approved. This is going to be something that hardware/IPTV companies like Boxee et al will face if Comcast isn’t called on this kind of harassment too.
Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning... →
On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’s customers who request such content. By taking this action, Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the borders of its broadband Internet access network, enabling it to unilaterally decide how much to...
I'm bored
tanya77:
Bored with everything. I’m grateful, I get it, but I’m bored. I’m writing stories I think are groundbreaking, pieces I would watch over and over again, and no one is responding to them. OK. I’m still writing them because I know they are “ahead”. I know they are “new” and even if nobody wants to touch them, I know they are real. I am going to live over here and I know I have to not give...
“By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites that either...”
– Bad precedent. U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown - NYTimes.com (via lkm)
Letting DHS take over here is a terrible idea, criminal copyright cases should go to federal courts not some ad hoc random bureaucracy…these dudes are stepping in my friends’ business (yeah I know tons...
Menstruating women beware... →
tanya77:
Perhaps women can put their panty liners and tampons in the plastic bin with their shoes, jewelry, and cell phones. This is the best way to avoid this woman’s experience.
Hello Amtrak! Taking Northeast Regional to Capitol Limited to Southwest Chief for Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival in Hollywood in April of 2011.
By the way the product she was using was cloth (hence...
“…closed, “walled gardens,” no matter how pleasing, can never compete in...”
– Sir Tim Berners-Lee, “Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality,” Scientific American, December 2010. (via communitp)
Kind of fitting given the Comcast Level 3/Netflix & Comcast Zoom stories
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Level 3: Comcast Demands Fees for Web Movie... →
“Comcast’s efforts to collect recurring fees from Level 3 go “well beyond” filtering or prioritizing Web traffic, Stortz said. “With this action, Comcast is preventing competing content from ever being delivered to Comcast’s subscribers at all, unless Comcast’s unilaterally determined toll is paid — even though Comcast’s subscribers requested...
A Stolen Thanksgiving Soap Box Speech
I’m pirating this from my favorite book The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn (it’s on pages 62-63)…she pirated this from a man by the name of Charlie Woodward who is a lay preacher and an expert on rural poverty. I hope this one entry alone shows why I dearly love this book…
…A gift is anything that we have that we did not work for. People born to wealth...
By Rights: Through TSA without Groping or Nude... →
itcounts:
The Monday before Thanksgiving I flew from LAX to DFW and I managed to do it without going through the nude x-ray machine or being sexually violated by a TSA agent.
My flight was scheduled to take off around 3 pm. Anticipating some issues I arrived a little before 8 am to give myself as…
There’s also YouTube video (actually audio) of a similar total avoidance of...
September 2010
20 posts
Why does video never effing work right in Tumblr →
<3 Peggy Olson Perfection right down to the bit where she loses it in the ladies room rather than cry tears of anger & frustration in front of Don Draper.
Broadcast Assassin: Online Resources for Webseries... →
These are starting points; this list is not intended to be all-inclusive. Plus, I’m sure there’s stuff I forgot. Please reblog and add to this list! Webseries news/reviews blogs: Tubefilter http://tubefilter.tv NewTeeVee http://newteevee.com Web Series Today …
Watchlkm:
John Cleese on creativity
“There’s a tendency amongst liberals to give rich right wingers too much credit,...”
– pandagon.net - it’s the eye of the panda, it’s the thrill of the bite (via lkm)
I’m still bummed that Scott Wilson turned down playing Conrad Hilton on Mad Men, but I wouldn’t cannonize either Conrad or Paris (though Conrad’s done a lot more to educate people in the hotel...
“They said they’d pay me $320 a day – and I thought, ‘Hey, I’d have done it for...”
– Danny Trejo, on his first job in film (via ericmortensen)
The way things are going with the actors unions y’all might think $50 a day is like $50 million…really sad
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“You don’t realize that when you make something and give it to people, it becomes...”
– Joe Wilson, writer/director of Vampire Mob (via ericmortensen)
Joe won over one of my fellow superfans by casting one of her fandom’s favorite actresses (& people) in his webseries. And then she mobilized me. And it’s all grassroots real following for his show. <3
“Since 1891, when [Thomas Edison] filed his first patent on a motion picture...”
– Thomas Edison’s plot to hijack the movie industry (via lkm)
Same as it ever was…
“* 26% of Americans feel they can’t handle/overwhelmed by the number of emails...”
– Email Overload Means We’re Never Not Working
For the last three nights (or four, I guess, counting today), I have basically forgone my social life, gone straight home after work, and just kept emailing and doing things. It’s been kind of awesome - and my inbox has been under 30 emails for four days...
Writer of the Happy Days "Jump the Shark" episode... →
(via jamesurbaniak)
I don’t think Henry Winkler made up the idea of waterskiing over a shark (he’s a way better actor & smarter guy than that).
“Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...”
– Latest leaked draft of secret copyright treaty: US trying to cram DRM rules down the world’s throats - Boing Boing (via lkm)
I’m the attorney she-bitch who asked one of the guys from the US Copyright Office how I should advise clients to stay within the law ACTA is supposed to be if I...
