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Rage Against the Machinima: YouTube's Stars Battle Networks

San Francisco's Current TV Sold to Al-Jazeera

The San Francisco-based Current TV that chose to unleash Gavin Newsom on innocent viewers has taken a surprising turn. Al Gore officially sold his not-so-popular cable channel to the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera.According to press reports, Gore will pocket $100 million with a 20 ... More >>

News Sites Can't Rely on Advertising

​I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments wi ... More >>

Facebook Teams with Time Warner to Fight Cyberbullies

Dealing with a bully the old fashioned way​Who better to lead a campaign to stop kids from bullying each other on the Internet than Facebook -- where much of this cyber harassment is taking place. Facebook, which now has 750 million users, announced that it will team up with Time Warner to wage ... More >>

Reddit Employs Novel Financial Strategy: Begging

'But you have 280 million monthly pageviews, my good man!'​Heavy traffic, a lean staff -- easier to achieve when you don't employ your own reporters -- and a comfortable spot under the aegis of a corporate publishing titan. If this sounds like a recipe for Internet media success, think again: the ... More >>

We'll Always Have "Paris by Night"

At least on DVD. But thanks to all the pirated discs, the iconic Vietnamese- language variety show might be facing its final curtain.

SF Gov InAction: Toxic Babies Are Not an Option!

Sometimes ... and I want to make it very clear that this is not drug-induced ... I don't think San Francisco is a real city at all. I think that maybe we're a Lego city, populated by Weebles. It makes as much sense as anything Sophie Maxwell's said lately. Why would I think this? Well, h ... More >>

SF Gov InAction: Supes Huddle in Closed Session to Gossip About Catholic Church and Landmark Trees

I wish I were a supervisor. Then I could have only three meetings this week. I kid, of course: It's hard work pretending to take this stuff seriously. Monday, Feb. 22 10:30 a.m. -- City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee If I had to pick one word to describe this meeting, it wou ... More >>

Dreaming of a Cable-icious Christmas

In this gayest of gift-giving seasons, what do we get that randy special someone without busting the bank? For thrifty San Francisco shoppers with friends in New York, the answer's a free calendar from a TV company. Time Warner Cable's entry into the beefcake calendar sweepstakes features glistening ... More >>

Cruise Control

Public health advocates want gay hookup Web sites to promote safe sex.

Dave Matthews Band Voter Registration: So Begins Another Inane 'Rock the Vote' Season

Public health advocates want gay hookup Web sites to promote safe sex.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Review Critique for Newspapers

ATHFCMFFT is 87 minutes of pure art, with fries

Free Kicks

Once in a Lifetime remembers when soccer players lived like rock stars

Is Anybody Watching?

In its struggle for cable eyeballs, Al Gore's S.F.-based Current TV is off to a rocky start

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Looking Inside INdTV

Al Gore and ex-Stanford prof Joel Hyatt say their S.F.-based cable news channel for twentysomethings won't be ideological. But do the Democratic moneymen behind the venture know that?

Sound Works?

Tony Espinoza poured his dot-com millions into the fanciest music studio in town. With balls like that, who needs street cred?

The New Media Monopoly

News & Reviews

There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future

The wickedly funny tale of culture clashes between the enfants terribles and the Wasps

Prick

Don't hate me because I'm corporate

Raw Sue-age

Let us not squander the gift of mass lawsuits against average Joes: Fuck the RIAA!

Barbarella

An early modeling career plus film school results in Sirens of the 23rd Century

Manifest: The Battle of Intergalactic Farces

Don't let the willful strangeness fool you: Serene Zloof is a talented actor

Of Boobs and Blood

Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has guts, all over the floor

alt.war

Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

The Bleeding Edge

A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

Wilco

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch)

Serfing the Web

AOL's treatment of its volunteer workers should give pause to those arguing for less regulation of business

Dark Victory

15 years later, Frank Miller once more dons Batman's cape and cowl

The Brave and the Bold

On Sept. 11, the world needed superheroes. They found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Tales of the North Pacific

What a 62-year-old man can teach shellshocked dot-commers as he sails from Osaka to San Francisco. Alone. Again.

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

They Love Bloomie's

The Chron and Ex drool over Bloomingdale's as the city coughs up $27 million

Mecklin

Anatomy of a Mau-Mau

South to the Future

You've Got Blackmail: What insiders wouldn't say about last week's media mega-merger

Why We Fight

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

He Spread, She Spread

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

God and Country, Remixed

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Unspun

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Letters

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Chatterbox

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Webbing Out

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Recordings

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Samples

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Samples

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Samples

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

Samples

The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

alt.rock.out

Hooking up to the music on the Net doesn't have to be daunting