Greg Sandoval reports at CNET on our friendly MPAA is suing TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search engine, for user data to trackdown copyright infringement. A federal judge ordered TorrentSpy to begin logging IP addresses to turn over (!), though the decision is suspended while an appeal is in progress. “Should TorrentSpy lose in appeal, it […]

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Most articles that deal with Production Sound Recording for video/film tend to cover microphones and recording/mixing techniques. I am not going to cover audio from the Sound Mixer’s perspective, but rather from the contributions of other Departments.
Why should other Departments care about improving audio? After all, except for Editing, the sound […]

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Matt Dentler called my attention to this article at Sports Illustrated about Brian Bennett, a writer for The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.) who was ejected from a NCAA baseball tournament for live-blogging the event. Somehow, the NCAA has a rule that prohibits this, seemingly considering it the same as a broadcast, which of course, they […]

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I signed up for Facebook some time ago; it felt a bit futile at the time. I knew I wasn’t that interested in maintaining a profile or making friends a la MySpace, but there was some reason why I felt like I needed to sign up. I was impressed that upon registering, Facebook scanned my […]

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I’m a Facebook gal myself (these days) and I have a lot to say about it in an upcoming post. But for those interested in LinkedIn, self-proclaimed Info-Geek Jennifer Brown has a great series of primers for getting up and running with that tool. If you are thinking about exploring LinkedIn, let Jennifer be your […]

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