During their annual “Upfront” sessions this month, TV networks are flinging several dozen new shows against the wall in order to see what sticks to the 2009-2010 prime-time wall. Given corporate media’s 90 percent mortality rate for new comedies and dramas made the old fashioned (expensive) way, webotainment — produced on a shoestring — continues to gain traction...
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The most celebrated inscription at the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, used to be the biblical phrase chiseled into marble in the main lobby: "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free..."
Twitter has of late been inundated by, shall we say, “normals.” What was once our little playground has become rather more populated. But that doesn’t make it any less effective a tool for communication. It just means we have to stick together, and keep the geek community thriving....
New allegations questioning the legitimacy of The Pirate Bay trial surfaced Friday when lawyers for the four file-sharing defendants accused the Swedish courts of secretely streering the case to a hostile judge. The latest ethics charges in the aftermath of the April conviction of the four founders of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent tracker alleged that the judge who presided over the trial wasn’t chosen at random, as is required under Swedish law....
Microsoft on Monday morning announced upcoming support for movie rental service Netflix as part of its system software update for the Xbox 360 (see live blog here)...
