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Hey, Television Is Already So Bad, I Bet We Hardly Notice …

in News on November 1, 2007 at 5:52 am PT

Mediated contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood producers broke off last night setting the stage for a writers’ strike that could leave sitcoms without scripts, late-night shows without topical monologues and television viewers with an even more limited choice of broadcast dross than they have now (“America’s Next Top Model,” “Dancing [...]

Here's Another Domain You Might Buy: www.MainstreamMedia Desperation.com

in News on June 22, 2007 at 4:20 am PT

When Santa Monica, Calif.-based incubator eCompanies paid $7.5 million in 1999 for the rights to the domain name business.com–nearly twice what Compaq paid the year prior to buy altavista.com, the name of its search engine–conventional wisdom was that the company’s founders were out of their minds. “It is going to be the bargain of the [...]