Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has created a bunch of new spots for Comcast featuring a groovy mix of live action and animation, with characters singing about the cable company in a Moldy Peaches/Juno-esque hipster monotone. See just a whole assload of them here. They've also set aside a piece o...

IT, internet video, Media Wade Roush wrote: These days, there’s no sense in producing video for just one platform, like cable TV. Media companies also want to get their content out to consumers via the Web, mobile phones, game consoles, video-on-demand networks, and other platforms. The proble...

Cartman & Co. are headed for Netflix, as the movie rental company has signed a deal to stream the first nine seasons of South Park through its Watch Instantly service, reports The New York Times today. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have already shown their show is a hit online a...

I need to get out more. Sitting here with a 40 terabyte direct cranial link to people who agree with me, it’s easy to forget that lot’s of people out there still have good reasons for deciding NOT to take advantage of all that social media has to offer, at either the personal or professi...

At the Songbird office, we have a standing appointment at ~3:30pm to walk around the corner to our neighbourhood Caffe Trieste (warning, music auto-play at their website). We do this for two reasons: They make a viciously good Africano The metered parking there becomes a tow-away zone from 3p-7p We ...

Would You Pay Comcast $10 a Month for Online TV? « NewTeeVee On top of what I pay for cable? No. If it had ads? No. If I could pay $10-$20 on top of my Internet bill and get digital cable channels, etc over the Internet. Yes. Comcast will fuck this up though. Have no doubt....

The latest edition of my weekly updates on my life and adventures in the City of Angels. This one’s a little late, as I had a busy weekend, but I promised to bring you the goods each and every week, and so I do. I spent much of this week buying furniture and various items for my new place, and...

Disclaimer: I've got my Rantipants on. Coarse language ahead.We were Comcast customers for many, many years- close to 14 years I think. It was not out of any loyalty after a few years though. It was because it was the only game in town. My issue was rarely with the service itself- that was pretty ok...

Never fear America: The FBI is making sure that there will never again be an incident of Super Bowl TV porn. However, all anthrax letters will be delivered as usual. Don't tell me that you've already forgotten how about 30 seconds of a porn movie made its way onto the Super Bowl broadcast shown to a...

Comcast says their investigation shows that their systems were functioning properly, so they've turned the case over to the FBI. "We have shared all of our information on this situation with the FBI and will continue to provide our full cooperation to them throughout their investigation," spokeswoma...