December 2010
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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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