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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
From WIMO, Seven-Episode Series To Launch On August 20
CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Madsen, George
Hamilton and Paul Ben-Victor will star in COMA, an original web series set
to premiere on Crackle.com on August 20. Produced by Drew Fitzgerald &
Stefan Haller from WIMO, Miguel Melendez at Overbrook Entertainment and
Anonymous Content, the seven-episode series is set in a contemporary...
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MediaCitizen (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It's official. The Federal Communications Commission delivered its on Wednesday lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users' Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong. The order, approved by a at the beginning of the month, demands that Comcast "must stop" its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by year's end. As I have , this action carries...
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Lessig Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Free Press (and others) alleged that Comcast was blocking the BitTorrent application. We've known for sometime the result in this case (because of the weird practice of the FCC to release the results of an order without necessarily releasing the order). But at the crack of dawn (California time) today, the Commission released its 34 page order. It is fantastically well done. So much so that I felt...
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Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Jen Howard WASHINGTON — Today, the Federal Communications Commission published an enforcement order punishing Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, for blocking Internet users’ access to legal online content and services. The order, approved by a bipartisan majority on Aug. 1, requires Comcast to stop its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by the end [...]
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday
And so it begins. Via Ben Smith : Scott McClellan advises Obama, in an interview with my colleague Daniel Libit, not to investigate the Bush administration — because it would, McClellan says, damage Obama's image. (Not that former Bushies have anything at stake in that choice.) [...] [W]hen asked what advice he would give to a President Barack Obama or Democratic Congress on the matter of handling...
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http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
How many people would be interested in joining a RAB Fantasy Football League? I’d like to get a deep league, like 16-20 teams so it’s nice and challenging. I’m thinking Sunday August 31st for the draft, figure same time as the Yankee game (1pm) so we can BS and watch the game as we pick. [...]
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Twangville (Free subscription) | yesterday
Donavon Frankenreiter, “Life, Love & Laughter” DONAVON FRANKENREITER, Pass It Around (Lost Highway) Official Site | MySpace | Samples (Amazon) What can I say, I’m a sucker for jangly surf rock. The Laguna Beach musician recruits Ben Harper (”Pass It Around”), G. Love (”Sing a Song”) and Grant Lee Phillips (”Mansions in the Sand”) among others [...]
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Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | yesterday
R.L. Stine’s beloved scary story series, Goosebumps, is making its big screen jump after almost 15 years. Goosebumps began as a young adult novel series, spanning more than 50 books. Fox then picked up the books for a weekly television show in 1995. Subsequent VHS releases of the more popular ...
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Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
I am glad I finally have a minute this summer to go hear some music, because there's some great stuff coming up this week: Tonight (Tuesday 19 August - also Wednedsay night) at Smalls: Kurt Rosenwinkel & Aaron Parks Quartet...
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http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Tropical Storm Fay is closing in on the mainland, so it looks like the Florida State League and Gulf Coast League will be inactive for a few days this week. Triple-A Scranton (9-6 win over Lehigh Valley) Melky: 1 for 1, 2 R, 4 BB, 1 SB - this is a joke, right? who is that man [...]
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http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Triple-A Scranton (12-9 win over Lehigh Valley in 10 innings) 13 of the 21 combined runs were scored in the ast two-and-a-half innings … yikes Bernie Castro, Ben Broussard & Chad Moeller: all 2 for 5 - Castro drew a walk, scored 3 runs & committed a fielding error … Broussard scored a pair of runs [...]
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On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
LI Concert Notes #35 Here’s some great Live Music on Long Island. Venue addresses/phones/URLs at end of all listings. Please scroll down. Corrections and Comments are welcome. Support Live Music on Long Island. For more information about great live music on LI and elsewhere Please also visit Michael Kornfeld and Glen Roethel’s excellent website: [...]
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internet128.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Scott Benson over Patriots Daily is trying to figure out how to keep five runningbacks on the New England Patriots 53-man roster. He sees keeping only two tight ends on the roster as one way to do it. Writes Benson: The Pats started last September with three tight ends, but there’s at least the suspicion they [...]
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America's Finest Blog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
I understand why the mayor and his allies want the outgoing City Council to name Scott Peters' successor as council president, not the council that will take office in December with several new members. In the former scenario, Ben Hueso...
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Out Of Left Field (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Day 7 Your daily Olympic wrap-up. Notable Canadian performance: Ryan Cochrane – Ok, so we’ve established that Canadian records in the pool aren’t really that impressive (there is a feeling that if you put the suits in the pool without a swimmer attached they would still swim a 47.5 second free). But, Olympic records? I think we can all agree that an Olympic record is a pretty nice little swim
