March 10 EMI’s Outrageous Lawsuit Against Developer Takes Its Toll Tech Crunch Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable fo...

Why are there radio stations aimed at kids? Dallas Morning News, TXCrunch Gear has an amusing post about plans to transform one New York radio station from a rock format to a pop format. The folks who own the radio station say the new format will provide "young adults" with a venue to "discover...

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 196) :: ( website ) :: ( podcast feed ) :: ( direct download ) :: ( direct iTunes link ) With Feedback, recorded live March 9th, 2009. For this week, we were orignally going to talk about the video game "...

The site with the best logo in the world, The Register, is reporting the surprising news that Wattpad has been approved by Apple. The literato’s Pirate Bay, Wattpad, has reached the iPhone and iPod Touch, offering community scribblings and copyrighted material through an Apple-sanctioned clien...

The mid 1960s saw an extraordinary explosion of British pop music but the only radio stations broadcasting it were based on 'pirate' ships, like Radio Caroline, anchored off the coast. In his new film The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis replays those heady days when music, fashion and youth were re...

Posted by CmdrTaco (81% noise) View Skip In a blatant attempt to make my movie-going a valid business expense, I’m putting together some notes on Watchmen, and providing a place for you all to discuss it. The first thing I want to say is that I had high hopes: If you ask any serious comic book...

1646 The very first patent in the the New World (America) is issued by the General Court of Massachusetts to Joseph Jenkes, to protect his scyth mill engine from competition. The patent is granted for fourteen years. The patent comes four years before the first US corporate charter, which will also ...

Kate Winslet finally won her Oscar, delighting the bulk of fans who have been rooting for her since she dreamt of Hollywood in '94 -- 'they're desperately keen to sign me up!' -- or nearly drowned in '97. She never let go. So, who is next? Or rather... who is most overdue? Contrary to popular belief...

Local author writing "The Paul Harvey Story" KOAA, COPaul Batura of Colorado Springs started writing Paul Harvey's biography last fall and even spent a day with the famous radio commentator. Harvey died Saturday at the age of 90. Batura says Harvey is the quintessential American story. ... Losi...

As The Pirate Bay returns after being offline all night, the lawyers of defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Swartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström present their closing statements to the court. Apparently, Fredrik (TiAMO) got the site back up from inside the courtroom. “I fixed the Pirate Ba...