Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Academy Awards, Apple, digital media, Disney, distribution, documentary, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, indie cinema, internet, iTunes, movie theaters, MPAA, music, piracy, privacy, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Apple, Blu-ray, digital music, distribution, DVD, file sharing, Google, Hollywood, illegal downloads, independent film, internet, MPAA, music, Netflix, newspapers, paywalls, piracy, social media, streaming, television, video games, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Blockbuster, copyright, digital media, Google, Hollywood, independent film, internet, magazines, music, Netflix, newspapers, streaming, television, video games, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Blockbuster, Digg, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, hyperlinks, independent film, internet, iTunes, magazines, music, Netflix, news media, Ping, print media, Redbox, Reddit, social media, streaming, Summer Media, television, Twitter, video games, viral, VOD, YouTube
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Some good news came from the battlefield that is media and technology policy recently: some important fair use rulings that help to hold off the ever expanding clutches of copyright.
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Tags: Apple, cell phones, copyright, DMCA, DRM, DVD, Google, mobile technology, policy, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, Industry, Internet, Technology | 3 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, advertising, blogs, box office, broadband, DVD, Facebook, file sharing, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iPad, magazines, movies, music, newspapers, Pixar, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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July brings with it one of my most cherished media rituals in the form of the exhilarating spectacle of suffering that is the Tour de France.
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Tags: sports, television, Tour de France, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Perspectives, Summer Media | 3 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, Africa, awards, Bollywood, Cannes, copyright, Facebook, file sharing, film festivals, Hollywood, indie cinema, MPAA, music downloads, music industry, online gaming, privacy, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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What the FCC, which received lackluster response to its announcement that it wanted to bring 100-megabit broadband to American homes, can learn from Google.
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Tags: community broadband, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Google, GoogleFiber, internet, Ivan Seidenberg, Julius Genachowski, media policy, National Broadband Plan, YouTube
Posted in Internet, Perspectives, Politics | 4 Comments »
I think this is the essence of Glee’s appeal: It “mashes” together the old and the new, the shallow and the deep, and in the end asks us to appreciate that our lives are much like popular culture.
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Tags: Glee, Mary Tyler Moore Show, mashup, music, musical genre, Olivia Newton John, television, YouTube
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Glee Club, TV | 10 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: digital music, downfall meme, DVDs, Facebook, independent film, Kickstarter, News for TV Majors, Paramount, piracy, Pirate Bay, Roger Ebert, Spotify, Twitter, video games, YouTube
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Film, Games, Internet, Music, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? April 11-24
The Second City's "Sassy Gay Friend" Shakespeare videos have received over 2 million hits to date. Why are they so popular?
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Tags: romance, Sassy Gay Friend, Second City, Shakespeare, YouTube
Posted in Current Events, Internet | 4 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Tags: 3D, Blockbuster, Bollywood, box office, copyright, DVD, Facebook, failures, Google, independent, journalism, Miramax, movies, music, Netflix, piracy, porn, Redbox, social media, television, transmedia, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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While YouTube offers the opportunity for unprecedented political participation through user-crafted videos, it can also house the performance of political lies mascarading as truth. Can citizens resist the attractions of such visual truthiness?
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Tags: Jason Mattera. politics, Michael Moore, right-wing, truth, visual rhetoric, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Tags: BBC, Blockbuster, Chatroulette, digital media, Disney, DVD, gender, indecency, internet, movies, music, oscars, social networking, studios, television, video games, Warner Bros., YouTube
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