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MSNBC offers a visual taste of 2002 with music and narration. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to punch something. With war very much on the horizon, 2002 looks like a calm before a great storm.

Fascinating new Pew study – “Counting On the Internet“: With over 60% of Americans now having Internet access and 40% of Americans having been online for more than three years, the Internet has become a mainstream information tool. Its popularity and dependability have raised all Americans’ expectations about the information …

McDonald’s is having problems for the first time since it went public in the ’60s – in the US I would attribute this to maturing taste. A NY Times editorial correctly identifies the chain’s original appeal: American companies exported this standardization to a world of consumers grateful for the promise …

As an entertainment news and reviews site we are keenly interested in, indeed directly affected by, copyright politics and have been following these issues since our inception in August. We are deeply gratified to find the mainstream media attending to the matter as well, and after taking the media industry’s …

Sony has a unique perspective on the consumer-creator rights conflict being a manufacturer of computers, CD burners, DVD recorders and portable media players, in addition to owning a movie studio and a record company. The LA Times interviewed Kunitake Ando, Sony’s president and chief operating officer, on the prospect of …

Tough shit, but these cures may help.

My paternal grandmother, “Nana,” died at 95 in 1995. Though by the end she was frail and mostly not there, she was a sweet and strong woman, born in Norway, who came to this country in her 20s with very little formal education. She read, watched TV, and went to …

Despite TV, cable, computers, DVD, cell phones, terrorism, blogs and yo mama, more people went to the movies this year than any since 1959: By some estimates, admissions could climb more than 10% over last year’s record levels, with folks flocking to theaters more than 1.5 billion times. When the …

Shania Twain, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z, Paul McCartney all sell well, but a general holiday bonanza doesn’t come for the recording industry: Despite efforts by record executives to stanch declining CD sales by releasing a cavalcade of big-name artists during the critical Christmas shopping season, early sales figures show an already …

Billboards listen to your car radio, then pitch accordingly: For example, if the freeway were packed with country music listeners, the billboards might make a pitch for casinos. If National Public Radio were on, the billboards could change to ads for a high-quality car or a gourmet grocery. The billboards …