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RIP: A remix manifesto

by Mathew on October 15, 2008 · View Comments

Filmmaker Brett Gaylor has created what he calls an “open-source documentary” called RIP: A Remix Manifesto. It’s about the importance of mashups and the remix culture, and includes interviews with and footage of mashup DJ Gregg “Girl Talk” Gillis (and his parents, as far as I can tell from the clip), as well as Cory [...]

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Google dips second toe into content

by Mathew on October 15, 2008 · View Comments

Eric Schmidt and other Google executives keep saying (usually in speeches to content-creation or distribution companies) that the company has no interest in getting into the content business, but the Web giant continues to do exactly that. Seth McFarlane’s new comedy venture is one example, and The Hollywood Reporter has come up with another: a [...]

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Behind the missing SNL bailout video

by Mathew on October 8, 2008 · View Comments

One of the highlights of last weekend’s Saturday Night Live episode — apart from the brilliant (as always) Sarah Palin impersonation by Tina Fey — was a clip in which George Bush, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank talk about the Wall Street bailout and who is to blame, and then a succession of pathetic characters [...]

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Eisner: Give Sarah Palin a talk show

by Mathew on October 8, 2008 · View Comments

Online video hub Veoh put on a mini-conference yesterday in New York that would have been fun to attend, if only to hear former Disney head Michael Eisner make some of these comments in person: “At ABC, we started America’s Funniest Home Videos — so this isn’t the first era to watch a man get [...]

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Friday video fun: Triumph and David Blaine

by Mathew on September 26, 2008 · View Comments

Came across this while reading my NewTeeVee feed: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, whose reports on Late Night with Conan O’Brien are always hilarious (his past gems include skewering Star Wars fans waiting in line for the release of Attack of the Clones, and doing the same to a bunch of fans at Bon Jovi [...]

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