Category: Entertainment

New iPhone (Free) App: Talking Pictures, Fotobabble

Add another great app to the iPhone lineup: Talking pictures.
Yep, Fotobabble allows you to add voice to photos in seconds with just a few clicks on your iPhone or on the Internet. Whether you want to add your voice to an existing photo on your computer, or on one you just snapped with your iPhone, Fotobabble [...]

Grateful Dead Return As Furthur

Our West Coast Music/Radio/Entertainment/Media blogger Brad Kava brings us this video of the new band Furthur – made up of Grateful Dead members – playing in the Bay area.

Grateful Dead Members Return As FURTHUR

Used to be the Bay Area was awash with East Coasters the week between Christmas and New Year’s because the Grateful Dead put on a spectacular week of announced and unannounced shows.
Finally, after a long drought, former members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir have given fans a reason to get on the bus again. They [...]

Opponents of Ticketmaster Merger Have Voice

Those opposed to the controversial Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger can have a voice on the issue.
By clicking on www.TicketDisaster.com you can register your views to Congress and the Department of Justice.
And as the Consumerist.com says, you can read up on all the reasons why the “merger sucks for consumers and the concert industry.”

The Richness of Traveling via the Hulu.com Hoop

Television is the new newspaper. Soon, you can bet, television will go the sad way of the daily paper.
Prospects are ajumble as fewer and fewer people turn to the networks or even cable for their entertainment or news at the moment that the cable or networks are presenting it. Who but the insomniacs [...]

Clicker.com: Great Way To Watch TV On Computer

Another web site has been developed to watch television on your PC or Mac: Clicker.com and it comes with The Mossberg Solution stamp of approval. I started playing on www.clicker.com after reading the Wall Street Journal column on it today by Katherine Boehret and found it to be as described.

Media Matters Blows One On Palin

I try to be an impartial observer of the media, especially now when so much of it has become juvenile name-calling with few truths behind it.
Media Matters is usually on point, despite what its critics say. It almost always backs its claims with video or audio that lets its readers decide for themselves. And, regardless [...]

John King To Replace Lou Dobbs

Read all about it here.
CNN took a wrong turn when it let opinions cloud news. Maybe now they have it right.
Says the Daily News:
King, the network’s chief national correspondent and the go-to guy on politics there, will take over the 7 p.m. show early next year.
“The program will reflect what CNN is all about: straight [...]

Sean Hannity Apologizes: “Inadvertently” Used Wrong Footage

Sean Hannity apologized to Comedy Central news analyst (what else can I call him?) Jon Stewart last night after Stewart busted him using doctored footage to make an anti-medical care rally seem bigger than it was.
Sorry, Sean. I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard…no…impossible to “inadvertently” used footage from a September rally and claim it [...]

Media Watchdog Jon Stewart Catches Fox News Faking A Story

Sure he’s a comedian.
So was Ronald Reagan when he made movies with a chimp and Stuart Smalley before he became a Senator.
Right now, Stewart is doing the best media policing in the country.
Don’t blame the messenger or whine about topics irrelevant. Watch this footage and see the kind of manipulation this “news” channel takes part [...]