Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal.  I wanted to expand on a few points in it.  The NY Times characterizes Aipac’s Josh Block as saying the following about the group’s involvement in the anti-Freeman campaign: Joshua Block, a spokesman for the ...

newVideoPlayer("/lambert_perf.flv", 506, 423,""); And so the final 13 begins. With both bangs and whimpers. There were some pleasant surprises (go Kris Allen!) and some predictable disappointments (fail, Danny Gokey). Let's discuss further after the jump. For the uninitiated, if you're out there, we...

Filed under: Other hardware, Set-top boxes, Others, Internet Since Xbox Live Marketplace was already home to NBC Universal movies and TV (at home and abroad) Microsoft's seen fit to fire back at Sony's PSN announcement with the relatively incremental additions of content from The Weinstein Company a...

The 100 episode limited edition high definition reintroduction of DragonBall Z has a name: DragonBall Kai, and a fresh HD trailer, embedded and lovingly fansubbed after the jump. More details have come out about the series since it was revealed, with the backers still emphasizing "no cropping" of or...

newVideoPlayer("/RH_RamonaLuann_gawker.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Once more unto the beach, dear friends. Well, sorta. There was some actual New York City adventure on RHoNYC last night, but some people were still mired in the Hamptons. As always, disasters struck. Jill met with her gay life coach/ho...

Today is: Gay Utah finds a new prom queen, Non-Gay Utah hates freedom, Sahara continues to hemorrhage money, Twilight newz!!, and frigging Octomom. The Sundance Film Festival has a new director. John Cooper, a 20-year veteran of the festival who worked in programming, has been moved up to the top sp...

Filed under: Blu-ray With sequel Angels & Demons ready to hit theaters in May, Sony Pictures is throwing in nearly a half hour of exclusive extra footage on The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut coming to shelves April 28. Codebreakers can look forward to in movie BD-Live chat, a $10 coupon off ticket...

Just under two years ago I joined the BBC. As one of my first projects at the BBC I led the development of the BBC's homepage leading the industry and our audience into a new personalized future. The page has proved enormously successful driving higher usage and deep engagement (over 30% of the audi...

Entrepreneurs are chomping at the bit to understand how the federal government plans to distribute that $7.2 billion in broadband funding. BusinessWeek report that Commerce Dept. officials held the first of several public meetings on the new programs. There were plenty of questions but few hard answ...

The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing the appointment of Chas. Freeman as director of the National Intelligence Council. The next time anyone qvells about how moderate a Republican Olympia Snowe is just remember that it was p...