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Archive for February, 2010
What Are You Missing? February 14-28
The Place Race
Location is the frontier du jour. The explosion of geolocation apps and the eagerness of people to use them, has prompted services like Twitter to get into the game. People want to know where you are and maybe already do. Welcome to the place race
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Watching Twitter on TV
The most exciting development in television technology showcased at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show was not 3DTV, but web-connected, widget-equipped television sets.
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Lost Wednesdays: Good Times at the Caves
Another week brings revelations that don't feel like revelations - when will we know what we know?
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Devo Now, More than Ever
Devo's forthcoming studio, long play release is their first in twenty years and return as a working act comes in a new era where "de-evolution is real and Devo is normal".
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In Praise of Dwangela
Where Pam and Jim (a couple whose sweetness is wonderfully conveyed by the fused appellation “Jam”) are associated with mild and often toothless critiques of the corporate regime, pulling pranks and expressing symbolic (and frequently non-verbal) opposition to or incredulity about the absurdities of corporate life, Dwangela perform a more substantive critical function.
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Vancouver’s (finally) Ready for its Close-up, Mr. DeMille
After years of starring in more films and television than any city other than Los Angeles or New York, with the Olympics, Vancouver finally gets to play itself on television.
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Video Game Nostalgia
Like much about video game culture, New Super Mario Bros. Wii is profoundly nostalgic.
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Dear John: On The Meta-Celebrity’s Misguided Attempt to be Clever
In a sense, Mayer has become his own cultural intermediary. He is a meta-star text sustained in large part by his own mediatory endeavors. This has its benefits, but also poses problems for the many John Mayers jockeying for control over the text.
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Our Intractable Ideological Moment: Surnow, The History Channel, and the Kennedys
The latest ideological skirmish will be played out through a History Channel mini-series on the Kennedys by conservative producer Joel Surnow. The problem, though, runs much deeper than shoddy history. It is rooted in a fundamental epistemological divide between left and right over what constitutes truth and how we arrive at it.
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Lost Wednesday: Substitute Fanboy
Is Jacob the mystical SysOp of Lostpedia? Or is he just a teacher looking for a substitute?
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What Google’s Experimental Fiber Network Means for Broadband
Despite all the other Buzz around Google lately, its other announcement last week is the real big deal: Google's plan to build an experimental 1 Gbps, fiber-to-the-home broadband network will have a big impact on net neutrality and broadband stimulus policies.
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Network Branding, Convergence, and Hasbro/Discovery’s New Kids Channel
What's in a name? Hasbro and Discovery begin branding efforts for their new joint venture cable network debuting later this year.
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What Are You Missing? February 1-13
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Is it all Downhill from here for Winter Olympics?
Olympic winter games are a rudiment of a bygone modern era of (television) culture. Whereas summer games have adopted to changing viewing habits, Winter Olympics have essentially remained fifteen ways of sliding.
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