At 1 pm Eastern today, Apple is hosting a media event to announce new products. For the first time that I am aware of, Apple will stream the event live on the Web. Note you can only watch with the right hardware/software. Apple announced that the stream will only be viewable on an OS X [...]
Posts Tagged ‘TV’
Apple media event today
Posted: 1st September 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, iPod, media, Media event, movies, TV
0
iPad and Fast Money
Posted: 31st August 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, CNBC, Fast Money (CNBC), iPad, media, TV
iPads have taken over on the set of CNBC’s program Fast Money. Disclosure: I own Apple stock.
Colbert on gay marriage
Posted: 6th August 2010 by Brant in culture, fun, politicsTags: civil rights, Colbert, TV
Another great bit from Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c How to Ruin Same-Sex Marriages www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News
Everything is amazing and no one is happy
Posted: 17th July 2010 by Brant in culture, funTags: comedy, fun, Louis CK, media, TV
Louis CK:
The chupacabra is real
Posted: 14th July 2010 by Brant in cultureTags: animals, chupacabra, fun, TV, wackos
Or maybe not. You decide. More on the chupacabra from The Awl.
How to identify a bad iPhone
Posted: 14th July 2010 by Brant in fun, techTags: Apple, iPhone, Letterman, TV
(h/t TUAW)
Taibbi on LeBron
Posted: 11th July 2010 by Brant in biz, cultureTags: jerks, LeBron James, media, sports, TV
You have to read Matt Taibbi’s full essay on television announcement of LeBron James’ move to Miami. But here is a taste: By any measure it was a landmark moment in the history of human self-involvement, eclipsing previous peaks in the narcissism Himalayas (Nero’s impromptu fiddle concert as Rome burned, the career of the prophet [...]
Family Guy emmy nomination
Posted: 9th July 2010 by Brant in culture, fun, politicsTags: Emmy Awards, Family Guy, media, Palin, TV
I love Family Guy. And they just got a nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for this little number. Sarah Palin, were she in the Academy, would not vote for this, I assume.
Disintermediation (updated)
Posted: 27th June 2010 by Brant in biz, culture, techTags: cable TV, Internet, media, movies, music, tech, TV
Disintermediation is the process by which a process middleman in a process is eliminated. Remember what the Internet did to travel agents? Who uses a travel agent these days? And how about bricks-and-mortor book stores? Well, we are (finally) getting closer to disintermediation of the cable TV companies. The Internet is a terrific platform for [...]
Quote of the day
Posted: 12th June 2010 by Brant in biz, politicsTags: BP, environment, fun, Gulf, oil spill, TV
I don’t think we can call it the Gulf of Mexico any more. We broke it; we bought it. – Stephen Colbert, after referring to the “Gulf of America”, on the Comedy Central television program The Colbert Report, 2010-06-07 (via Quotation of the Day Mailing List).
Carly Fiorina discovers the open mike
Posted: 10th June 2010 by Brant in politicsTags: Fiorina, media, republicans, TV
Oh my. Carly Fiorina, GOP candidate running against Barbara Boxer, unknowlingly spoke on open mike about her opponent’s hairstyle, and other issues.
Apple/iPad/iTunes TV
Posted: 6th June 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, Apple TV, iPad, media, TV
Adam Lisagor has written a (long) essay speculating on the experience of watching video on an iPad, and what may be coming in the near future by way of Apple TV. I don’t agree with it all but he is right, I think, in speculating that the iPad is a key part of the future [...]
Netflix and the iPad
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Brant in biz, techTags: Apple, iPad, movies, Netflix, TV
Yesterday Netflix upgraded their app for the iPad. What does the upgrade do? It allows iPad owners to output Netflix’s streaming movies from the iPad to a TV. This is a great new feature.
MTV music video of the day (part 2)
Posted: 12th May 2010 by Brant in cultureTags: Boys Don't Cry, David + David, MTV, music, TV
Comments Off
One of my favorites from 1986. “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” by Boys Don’t Cry. On MTV, April, 1986. Bonus video: David + David performing “Welcome to the Boomtown.” I moved to LA in 1984 and this became, in 1986, more or less a theme song for what I found when I moved to Hollywood. [...]