From the International Documentary Association
On Monday, April 26, reply comments were submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) concerning preservation of the open Internet and the broadband industry. The comments were submitted for the International Documentary Association, Film Independent, University Film & Video Association, Independent Filmmaker Project, IFP / Chicago, IFP Minnesota and National Association [...]

From the L.A. Times Technology Blog
Apple’s iPad can do movies, music, e-mail, apps and rich Web browsing. And of course, e-books. Should Amazon just put its comparably basic e-reader, the Kindle, to sleep?
Not so fast. Sleep experts say using the iPad before bed can affect sleeping habits unlike most other e-readers.
The difference? Devices like the [...]

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish
By Ryan Chittum, posted at Columbia Journalism Review
The Nieman Journalism Lab’s Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple’s iPad as part of its future.
McGann talked to Mark Fiore, who won a Pulitzer this week [...]

By: Julian Chavez | April 12, 2010 | From Malibu Magazine
Thomas Balmès is the filmmaker behind the new documentary Babies, which is opening Mother’s Day Weekend.

Posted at Red Channels
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In Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Image of Proust” (1929)* he writes, “all great works of literature either found a genre or dissolve one.” But sometimes they do both, simultaneously, as in the case of Morin and Rouch’s Chronicle of a Summer. In the very [...]

By Jeff Jarvis
I tweeted earlier that after having slept with her (Ms. iPad), I woke up with morning-after regrets. She’s sweet and pretty but shallow and vapid.
Cute line, appropriate for retweets. But as my hangover settles in, I realize that there’s something much more basic and profound that worries me about the iPad — and not just [...]