HEROES creator Kring worries about online content, product placement. He should have a talk with the people running PSYCH. On Friday night's episode they essentially stopped the show for about thirty seconds to have the two main characters shamelessly shill for Dunkin Donuts, talking about how much they love it. It was like the episode of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT where they parodied product placement in Burger King, except this wasn't a parody. It was jarring, cringe-worthy, and slightly painful to watch. To be fair, with larger and larger segments of the audience either skipping the commercials via PVR recordings, or downloading the shows without commercials, they've gotta get those ads in there somewhere to make money.
Meanwhile, Jason Statham wants to be Daredevil. I think he'd do better than Affleck did. I dunno about the accent though.
Another blog, this time over at AMC asks: Has Hollywood hijacked Comic-Con? I think so, but that's just me.
Geeks may be overrated in Hollywood. All it will take is a sting of flops for Hollywood's love affair with comic adaptations and other nerd-friendly projects to disappear quicker than a crackrock in Amy Winehouse's presence. (I've never heard a note of her music, but I scroll past so many stories about her being a crackhead, that that little bit of info has worked it's way into my pop culture reference radar.)
Violent, crazy grownups run amok this week. These guys are too old to be likely be video game players. So what are we blaming their horrific violence on? Hey, how about they're just fucking crazy? Just like younger people who do the exact same sort of things.
U.S. agents can seize travelers' laptops (and other personal electronics). Non-US citizen here on holiday? They can take it. US citizen returning from a foreign country? They can take it. These seizures can be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing and they can hold on to them indefinitely. Unbelievable.
The Net neutrality strawman: No one is stopping broadband providers from charging more. Net neutrality stops providers from charging their customers for bandwidth, which is what they already do, and then turning around and charging the sites those same customers are visiting, for instance Google, for the exact same bandwidth the customers are already paying for. (That broadband in the US is already overpriced compared to other nations, considering what we get for what we pay and how others pay less and get more, is another issue entirely.)
FCC orders Comcast to modify network management. Basically they're supposed to stop the traffic shaping and disclose more info. Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious. There's reactions from both sides of the fence.
Meanwhile, Jason Statham wants to be Daredevil. I think he'd do better than Affleck did. I dunno about the accent though.
Another blog, this time over at AMC asks: Has Hollywood hijacked Comic-Con? I think so, but that's just me.
Geeks may be overrated in Hollywood. All it will take is a sting of flops for Hollywood's love affair with comic adaptations and other nerd-friendly projects to disappear quicker than a crackrock in Amy Winehouse's presence. (I've never heard a note of her music, but I scroll past so many stories about her being a crackhead, that that little bit of info has worked it's way into my pop culture reference radar.)
Violent, crazy grownups run amok this week. These guys are too old to be likely be video game players. So what are we blaming their horrific violence on? Hey, how about they're just fucking crazy? Just like younger people who do the exact same sort of things.
U.S. agents can seize travelers' laptops (and other personal electronics). Non-US citizen here on holiday? They can take it. US citizen returning from a foreign country? They can take it. These seizures can be carried out without suspicion of wrongdoing and they can hold on to them indefinitely. Unbelievable.
The Net neutrality strawman: No one is stopping broadband providers from charging more. Net neutrality stops providers from charging their customers for bandwidth, which is what they already do, and then turning around and charging the sites those same customers are visiting, for instance Google, for the exact same bandwidth the customers are already paying for. (That broadband in the US is already overpriced compared to other nations, considering what we get for what we pay and how others pay less and get more, is another issue entirely.)
FCC orders Comcast to modify network management. Basically they're supposed to stop the traffic shaping and disclose more info. Reactions to FCC's Comcast decision come fast and furious. There's reactions from both sides of the fence.
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