Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. | | | | Indiana Jones trying to move from linear to OTT. 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981).
(Paramount Pictures) | | | | |  | “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
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| | rantnrave:// Go deep on your holiday weekend. The TOP 100 Items on REDEF... The television business was warned of impending disruption for over 15 years. They didn't do much. They stalled. They were indecisive. Started OTT networks, shut many down. Depended on cable companies that rope-a-doped them on bad technology platforms. They watched as new ad dollars bypassed TV. Fumbled on TV everywhere. Acted too tentatively with HULU. Thought NETFLIX would die and licensed it to 100 million subs. And yet, let's face it, they still create great programming and have billions in revenue. But still don't offer the user experiences next-gen consumers want. Binging and such. I'm not crapping on them. I love television. Some of the execs are the smartest people I know. But still, you know what I'm saying. AMC is of the of the four networks I will watch a show from just because it's on that network (also FX, HBO, SHOWTIME). It announced a service that will stream their network live and ad-free for $5 a month. VARIETY's ANDREW WALLENSTEIN thinks "AMC Premiere Has Paradigm-Shift Potential for TV Biz". Do you? Going to watch this one closely. Pun intended.... Did you know JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME was deemed too short to play THE PREDATOR? Or that SEAN CONNERY passed on MORTAL KOMBAT because he wanted to focus on his golf game? Here are the stories behind the bullets, biceps, and bloodshed of your favorite action films. MediaSET: "I Need a Hero: Action Movie Oral Histories"... MIKE TYSON has lived his life on a standing eight-count. He’s been upset in the ring, convicted of rape and became a laughingstock for snacking on EVANDER HOLYFIELD’s ear. Somehow, he came out of the chaos to become an author, cartoon character and HOLLYWOOD favorite. SportsSET: "Iron Mike"... Movie and TV wardrobes are the result of research, craft, communication, and style. Go behind the scenes with costume designers on how they've created some of movie and TV's most memorable looks. FashionSET: "In Character: Costume Designs for Movies/TV"... My name is JASON HIRSCHHORN. I don't understand BITCOIN, ETHEREUM, BLOCKCHAINS, TOKENS. None of it. And I haven't seen TOY STORY, any HARRY POTTER movies, or THE PRINCESS BRIDE... Longform isn't dead. Patience is dead at the firms saying longform is dead... THIS is AMERICA... Ok, I laughed... Waiting for JAY Z's "What's Going On?" He has it in him... Happy Birthday to JOANNA BOMBERG, NANCY LUBLIN, BRIAN MEDAVOY, BILL ROBINSON, PETER MASTERSON, and DANNY BIGEL. Belated to BRYAN GOLDBERG, JAN-JOOST RUEB, YINKA ADEGOKE, TREVOR GILBERT, MANELI KEYKAVOUSSI, TERI WEINBERG, and GLENN KAINO. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Scientific American |
| We are in the middle of a technological upheaval that will transform the way society is organized. We must make the right decisions now. | | |
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| Music may have been the first media format to be upended by digital, but more than 15 years later, it's the only one still fixated on what was, not what can be. If the industry hopes to restore growth, both labels and artists will need to confront the changes brought about by the likes of iTunes and Spotify. | | |
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 | CNBC |
| This week, America witnessed the successful hunting down and bagging of a major company's CEO. Too many of us seem to be just fine with it. But we shouldn't be. That leader was Uber's chief, Travis Kalanick, who announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down from the company he founded. | | |
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 | SPIN |
| In October 2015, MTV announced an overhaul to its website, which it hoped would help reposition itself for the future. Now, with a celebrated new staff departed or laid off, an experiment in the power of longform journalism is dead. According to sources, this is the story of why. | | |
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 | Remains of the Day |
| Explosive truths that hide in plain sight are especially unusual in this age of the internet, especially with outlets like Deadspin so eager to share every rumor. How is it that incriminating stories can be floating out there for years and not spread like viral memes when headline writers everywhere are weaponizing even the most mundane of news? | | |
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 | Grub Street |
| An ode to a way of eating, and thinking about the city, that is going away. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| NFL players have signed a five-year deal with WHOOP, a biometric performance company that measures workout strain, recovery, and quality of sleep via a wearable band. If teams want to see the data, they’re going to have to pay up . . . but they won’t be the only customers. | | |
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 | New Republic |
| How the superrich have funded a new class of intellectual. | | |
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 | TomDispatch.com |
| The tabs on their shoulders read “Special Forces,” “Ranger,” “Airborne...” | | |
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 | Wired |
| Six months before the first iPhone was released into the eager hands of the buying public, all Apple had was a glitzy demo of a product that, in reality, barely existed. There were still hundreds of problems-from tiny software bugs to seemingly insurmountable hardware hurdles-to be solved. | | |
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 | The American Conservative |
| Are the adults in the room being thwarted? | | |
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 | Andreessen Horowitz |
| Is a network -- whether a crowd or blockchain-based entity -- going to replace the firm anytime soon? Not yet, argue Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in the new book Machine, Platform, Crowd. But that title is a bit misleading, because the real questions most companies and people wrestle with are more "machine vs. mind", "platform vs. product", and "crowd vs. core". | | |
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 | Mashable |
| Making TV is always hard, but does Twitter make it harder? | | |
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 | Racked |
| Receiving a new shirt or clean pants can be transformational. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| Could Katy do the same thing for my anxiety that MDMA did--without any of the debilitating side effects? | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A California company makes weed vaporizers to suit every mood-here’s what happened when I tried them. | | |
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 | Hazlitt |
| After I was run over by a car, getting mad helped me find my way back to myself. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Once revered as one of the greatest heroes in Red Sox history, today Schilling is known as much for offensive memes as for his bloody sock. Is his goal to dominate right-wing media--or to win a spot in the Senate? | | |
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 | Shorenstein Center |
| A new paper by Zack Exley, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2017), organizer and author dives into a little-known part of the alt-right media landscape, revealing its influence and worldview. | | |
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 | Complete Music Update |
| Tackling issues around transparency requires music creatives and their managers to be much more specific about what streaming information they feel they need and should have access to. At a basic level, it’s useful to distinguish between usage data, royalty data and deal information. | | |
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 | AdExchanger |
| Let me start by saying, no, I don’t think agency media-buying groups will become extinct. But it now appears very likely that agency media-buying groups must change radically to stay in existence. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| The Southern Poverty Law Center--led by charismatic, swashbuckling founder Morris Dees--is making the most of the Trump era. But is it overstepping its bounds? | | |
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 | The Nation |
| An obscure legal loophole is often to blame. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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