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What Are You Missing? March 1-13
What Are You Missing? February 14-28
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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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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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 Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?
Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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Google leaving China?
In a quiet blog post with major ramifications, Google announces that it is no longer willing to censor search results in China. What happens next?
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What Do You Think? Most Important Websites of the Decade
Continuing with our series, what websites would you nominate as the most important of the decade?
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What Are You Missing? December 6-12
Your current Antenna editors join forces to bring to your attention ten media-related tidbits you might have missed this week.
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Google’s Offensively Bad Image Search
If you did a Google image search this morning on “Michelle Obama,” you would’ve seen a horribly racist caricature of the First Lady depicted as part monkey.
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Unfriended!
New Oxford American Dictionary, it's over. No more status updates, no more shared photos - you're unfriended.
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Keeping an eye on “Copyright Watch”
The beta version of Copyright Watch was launched recently. The site gives users an overview of national copyright law in various countries across the globe. Each entry on Copyright Watch gives a brief overview of the geographic location and borders of the country, whether the country is a member of supranational organizations like the...
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What Are You Missing: November 7-14, 2009
Ten things worth checking out online from this past week
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And You Thought We Didn’t Care
Last week Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas announced his intention not to run for reelection (big) if and when a vote is held. This isn't the forum to discuss the political significance of this move, but I thought I'd throw out some quick observations on the international media side of the story.
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Meghan McCain vs. Andy Warhol
For the curious internet user, copies of the buxom self-portrait Meghan McCain snapped to accompany her twitter post last week (which read, “my ‘spontaneous’ night in is my Andy Warhol biography and takeout....I'm getting old”) will forevermore be mere clicks away.
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