Recently U.S. based corporate-owned media has been concerned about how television viewers are cutting cable and the complete lack of “must see TV”… And to fight this challenge to market dominance, the barriers to entertainment consumers have been raised, including supporting SOPA and limiting Netflix and Hulu availability. So the way to support consumers willing [...]
While Season two of Lena Dunham’s inexplicably controversial Girls is kicking off production with Donald Glover and “hipsters of all ethnicities” providing a little diversity to the show, every armchair TV critic out there seems to have their own suggestions for Lena Dunham’s vision: nicer boys! less awkwardness! better clothes! slightly older hipsters! Meanwhile, my [...]
The best thing about this book is the title. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to learn about how to stop parasites? Especially when they are digital! But the book offers little more than the simplistic model of payment is good for copyrighted materials – and pirating is bad. One of the ways that I judge books [...]
It’s the end of the year and time for one of my favorite annual book purchases, the DeCapo Best Music Writing series. It’s a great time to catch up with all the music writing I have generally ignored for the past year. (Not on purpose!) It’s also an excellent opportunity to go back in time [...]
I don’t watch a whole lot of television these days. I get most of my entertainment online, and when I do watch television programming, it’s on Hulu or Netflix. My favorite TV show of 2011 isn’t a traditional television show at all, however. It’s a web series called the Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. The [...]
Interesting news for both fans of NIN and followers of fan culture, fan-works and ownership. The grassroots fan organized video production collective This One is On Us made some waves for their organization and dedication to documenting Nine Inch Nails last tour with high-quality video and audio recording. As mentioned in a TLF post from [...]
So to start my series of posts about SXSW, I’m starting with a discussion of one of the books focused on during one of the panel presentations, Scott Kirsner’s latest work, Fans, Friends and Followers. If you are looking for a book on living up to the 1,000 true fans philosophy, this isn’t it. As [...]
Around about the end of last year, all the big shit web 2.0 blogs started to pull together their prediction list for 2010. I was very close to pulling up such a list myself until I concluded that there was absolutely nothing that I wanted to put out there as a sure-fire prediction? Everything in [...]
If you don’t know the artists (Faith No More & Kylie Minogue) and musical genres (J-pop & hallyu) mentioned in the title of this post, that doesn’t make you odd. You just aren’t aware of these music more popular outside of the U.S. (and the “hallyu wave” is not limited to music). But that doesn’t [...]
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the traditional music industry to its present morass. And therefore, the subtitle should be: How the music industry decided short-term profits were more important than life-long fans. While I prefer a [...]
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