the wire
| 10:00AM 4/13/2010
The Wire creator David Simon is an old school newspaper reporter who has expressed fears about the future of journalism on the Web. But he's finally warming up to the Internet, hoping viewers will use Google searches to help decipher the culture of an old New Orleans neighborhood, Treme, the setting for his new HBO series.
| 7:00PM 6/10/2009
It's the hottest new media meme since lolcats: The internet is a leech, a louse, a bloodsucker -- a parasite.
Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson recently described websites that use others' content to build their own traffic as "tech tapeworms as the intestines of the internet."...
| 1:00AM 7/15/2008
The Daily Deal for July 15
The Wire First Season on DVD, Tower.com, list $59.98, is on sale for $40.99 (32% off) with free shipping.
In case you haven't noticed, the television doldrums have arrived, and if I have to watch one more 'reality' show, I'm going to scream like William Hung (and trust...