the tyranny of PG13 (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
digital convergence
resist the corporatization of love and romance… (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Roger Ebert’s new show needs a second host; studio hopes Netflix is fading; does the U.K. need a Fox news?; more: leftover links
Plus, tons more on Wikileaks, including Julian Assange’s manifesto…
question of the day: What TV channel could you not live without?
Have you cut the cable cord yet? Are you thinking about it? Is losing a certain channel what’s stopping you?
is Betty Draper misunderstood?; the end of cable TV?; why never to throw away someone else’s action figures; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
omg: Steve Jobs agrees with me about how Hollywood will have to change
I’ve been talking about it loudly and frequently for ages: the entertainment environment is changing rapidly, all sorts of new options are available for acquiring and viewing movies, and Hollywood should be listening to how its customers are telling the industry it needs to change. Going to the multiplex is an expensive and unpleasant proposition … more…
Green Lantern’s CGI wardrobe, cutting the cord to cable TV, sexy Shrek, and more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Cablevision’s remote DVR: harbinger of the everything-on-demand future?
It’s been my dream for ages: everything online. Old TV shows, every movie ever made, everything on demand all time. I don’t want to flip over to Turner Classic Movies and watch whatever old movie it’s deigning to air at that moment — I want to tune my Internet-ready HDTV to TCM’s Web site and … more…
question of the day: Are sites like Hulu and YouTube “anti-consumer, anti-media employees, and even anti-America”?
Last week at Deadline Hollywood, Nikki Finke posted some extraordinary comments by watchers of Hollywood and measurers of the performance of its products regarding the upheavals media is going through at the moment: I’ve seen 3 deep-dive reports just this month about studio-produced entertainment going online. And the consensus is that Big Media could destroy … more…
question of the day: Is HBO going online in the right way?
I’ve long been an advocate of TV shows being made available online, but it seems to me that HBO has it entirely wrong: Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable operator in the country, is working with customers here to test a subscriber model for online TV viewing. Residents who pay for HBO can watch “Big … more…
