“The Wire” Moving to … uh … the wire?

HBO is finally "examining" putting its content onto the web … while many may jeer "Hey, about time," for HBO this is a more complicated Gordian Knot that it might seem.  And hey, it’s not like other major media companies all have...

Social Griefing, DMCA and Craigslist – the EFF Steps In

There’s something very deep here – and it’s part of that ongoing story  about the guy that started the entrap-a-perv thing on Craigslist.  Apparently,  this monkey is pretty good at gaming the system – he figured out how to fake...

Even I Am Not This Grim

It’s nice to read something fresh, from a voice that has a strong and determined POV that is divorced from the standard party line you’re bad/y’ll would be even worse that graces us this election cycle.  Never have I been so happy to have a TiVO...

Blogger Courage: An Example of the New Journalism

Absurd Theater Meets Call-and-Response Ceremony:Doctors Legally Required to Torment & Insult Women The blogger that I had referenced earlier who was at the center of an outraged online (and offline) shitstorm for daring to write about how she tried to get a...

Clear Channel Seeks Bigger Idiot

Well, if anyone were to have to suck the pipe for reasons of being a total and complete sack of bastards, the short list would have to include the Clear Channel bunch. The analysis on Buzzmachine indicates that they are in full-on panic mode, because the trend in...