December 2009
Rocketboom Presents The Suffersons
PRESS RELEASE
December 28th, 2009 (New York, NY): Rocketboom is pleased to announce the launch of “The Suffersons”, a new comedic series created by Blair Singer (“Weeds”, “Monk”, “Book of Daniel”), starring Michael Chernus (“Bored to Death”, “Mercy”) and Susan Pourfar (“The Sopranos”, “Numb3rs”).
“The...
NFL to ask players to donate brains →
The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league’s stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned Sunday.
The league now plans to encourage current and former NFL players to agree to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has said it found links between repeated head trauma...
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Magma to Tumblr: Can you hear me? Tumblr: Copy.
Magma now supports full integration with Tumblr! When adding videos to your Magma account you can automatically cross-post to Twitter, Facebook and now Tumblr simultaneously, with support for any of your Tumblr blogs, including group blogs.
We are excited to announce a few other new features too:
New Add to Channel Interface
We’ve also redesigned the channel video add experience, making it...
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Why News Won't Work Like Murdoch Wants It To
There is a great deal of information worth paying for, but for the most part, it’s hard to understand why anyone would be incentivized to pay for the news for news is as free as the freedom of speech.
Consider this article from The Wall Street Journal, Google to Start Selling Own Phone Next Year. The article starts off “Google Inc. has designed a cellphone it plans to sell directly to consumers...
Open Letter to ABC re: A Charlie Brown Christmas
TO: ABC FROM: Leon Lynn RE: Desecration of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 12/8/09 Dear ABC, How could you? For years and years I have awaited the network broadcast of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as the true herald of the holiday season. I brought my kids up with the same tradition — one which has been made no less special for us by the fact that they happen to be Jewish. Tonight we sat in horror...
