Tag Archives: Video

Today is the day for Poetry Against the War, which grew out of Laura Bush’s misguided cancellation of a White House poetry event that the poets were planning to turn into an anti-war event – better to have let the poets had their say, then refuted them than to give …

Arik Hesseldahl explains in Forbes why TV broadcast flags are a waste of time: Video recording is a convenience that consumers have grown accustomed to since the introduction of the first videocassette recorders in the 1970s. Many consider it an entitlement. To a point, it is. The U.S. Supreme Court, …

Two office linebackers.

My selections for the best Oscars: Mayer, Hammerstein, De La Hoya, Wilde, Schindler, Peterson, Olsen (my grandfather, he was a sea captain on the Pacific Coast).

The best evidence yet that al Qaeda and Iraq are the same war? Bin Laden says they are: An audio tape broadcast Tuesday and said to be from fugitive Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden warned Arab states against backing any U.S.-led war on Iraq and said suicide attacks were important …

In an egregious oversight, we have three stories about the Oscar nominations and none (until now) about the Razzies: Big budget box office bombs, big name embarrassments and one of 2002’s biggest box office hits are featured among nominations for The 23rd Annual Golden Raspberry (RAZZIE) Awards, dis-honoring the year’s …

Dell dude busted in NYC: Benjamin Curtis, a 22-year-old New York University drama student, was arraigned Monday on a misdemeanor drug possession charge. The charge assumes a suspect is not carrying more than a “use amount” – enough to roll several marijuana cigarettes. Police said he was arrested Sunday night …

Michael Jackson was appalled by the Martin Bashir documentary about him that aired in the UK and US last week. Apparently he feels betrayed by Bashir voicing his concerns for Jackson’s own children, and for other “vulnerable” children who come under Jackson’s sway, in voice-overs for the documentary, where Bashir …

We have mentioned the battle within Sony between content and electronic device divisions as representative of the larger struggle going on between rights and usage. Now the perspicacious Farhad Manjoo looks at a similar continental divide within AOL Time Warner: But stuck in the middle of this fight is a …

Another look at the dilemma exemplified by Kazaa – licensed vs. unlicensed downloading, copyright holder’s willingness to license – coming to the now almost universal conclusion (excluding most corporate copyright holders, of course) that the key to the digital entertainment future is for record labels (and to a lesser extent, …