Thanks to FOX, who like to start their shows early because they spend October ruining the Baseball Playoffs, the fall television season is starting this week. Which means, finally, rescue from the summer TV doldrums, right?
Wrong.
If you think that there hasn’t good stuff on the tube this summer, you haven’t been paying attention. Or you don’t have cable, which is where these half-dozen good-to-all-time-classic shows live.
Wanna know the philsophical underpinnings of some of our posts here at Medialoper? (I’ll pretend you said “yes.”) The following books have helped me work out some of the concepts that infuse nearly everything that I write about what we are calling the “new media.”
Here they are, alphabetical by author:
“There’s a reason they didn’t let me see this in the theater.”
As it turns out, I was sick this past weekend. Very, very sick. That’s the only excuse I can offer for the story I’m about to tell. When we settled in for a Friday night movie, I thought, “Let’s do something wild, wacky.”
In my misspent youth, I’d watched the movie version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Yeah, the movie.
When we built the Medialoper Review Labs, we had great hopes that our first major product review would be something special, like a sneak peak of a 6th generation iPod or maybe a preview of an Origami UMPC.
Neither Apple nor Microsoft responded to any of the emails we’ve sent requesting review units. Instead, the subject of our first review is the latest digital audio player from the little known DuroSport Electronics Company. You’ve probably never heard of DuroSport – we certainly hadn’t. The company contacted us earlier this year to offer us an exclusive review of their newest mp3 player.
At first, we weren’t interested in reviewing a generic media player from an unknown company—that was before the company’s persistent marketing rep dropped hints that the player in question would be licensed to a well-known Internet company as the audio player associated with a new online music service to be launched later this year. The only thing we know is that the “well-known” company’s name “begins with an A and ends with .com”. Whether this is a legitimate claim or a desperate attempt to obtain media coverage for yet another mp3 player, we were intrigued enough to evaluate the new Prism DuroSport 6000.
Regardless of whether or not the new Prism DuroSport is part of a new online music store launch, we’re certain DuroSport will be a household name in no time – but not necessarily for the right reasons.
While it may seem hard to believe, the Prism DuroSport 6000 is not the worst product we’ve been asked to review. The DuroSport company produces a line of accessories that are every bit as unique as their digital audio player.
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One of the the great ironies of DRM has been the Orwellian phraseology designed to assure customers that hey! we're doing this for you!!!! So what we have here is music that "PlaysForSure" you've legally purchased from Yahoo's "Unlimited" music service, which is going to -- you know -- stop playing because that music service is going to end. You what's amazing? That any consumer whatsoever bought into this bullshit in the first place.
No spoilers! No spoilers!!
There were so many ways to resolve this issue. Typical that Hasbro went with the all-American solution. And sad. Really sad.
How is Hasbro so idiotic that they don't understand that the mere fact of Scrabulous has made the entire concept of Scrabble relevant to a whole new generation who just might buy the board game in order to play in in a F2F situation? We can only hope that if they succeed, nobody installs the replacement, and real-life Scrabble sales plummet.
Interesting model and maybe a good one for newspapers who can't afford dedicated reporters in particular areas of interest.
Reportedly because Red Envelope competed directly with the Hollywood producers who are Netflix's business partners. Give me a break.
A, er, think piece on why women find male musicians sexy.
Kindle not yet available, making one wonder why territory specific product releases still make sense in a 24/7/360 degree world.
It's all part of the Virus Exchange Program: the Porterville Virus is on its way to the West Nile.
Or, "How Geena Davis' career took a very very wrong turn."
For the record, he was cited for being an old man driving a black Corvette. He got a pass for hitting a pedestrian and driving away. Thus proving Novak can get away with just about anything.
Still alive, according to its creator. You should be watching this show.
Amen!! One Black Market App that we really miss was called "Services," and it allowed us to turn on & off Wi-fi, the Edge & the phone from single interface instead of having to all over the place in "Settings."
This has been out for a couple of weeks, which doesn't make it any less funny.
Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting the first "Dollhouse" DVD extra.
Well, they're the experts. Also, in the days of FOX News, right-wing talk radio -- not to mention that anybody can and will start a blog -- does anybody still truly believe that always-was-bullshit canard about the "liberal media bias?" Or do they haul it out in the vain hope that it will change anybody's mind?
Somewhere, Gene Siskel is laughing. And yet, we should stop and pay homage to a show that we watched for years and years, going all the way back to the PBS years. Why? It was simple, and it was effective: two guys who know a shitload about movies discussing theme, week in and week out.
"The marketing possibilities are endless." Yay?
And so it begins. Warning: these track names have at least one joke . . .
Cool interview with Douglas McLennan of ArtsJournal (a guy, by the way, who responds promptly to email!) about the future of his publication -- note especially his comments about the importance of well-curated content.
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