While this year’s TV pilot season looks to be full of sci-fi and spies, the following six stand out as possible contenders. Although these don’t include high profile pilots like Gang Related, Hostages and Human from J.J. Abrams, they’re worth a look. See the full lineup at Metacritic. Meanwhile, check out Bates Motel on A&E Mondays at 10/9C. […]
Three geek mags worth your time and money — none are surprising, sure, but the iPad subscriptions are pretty sweet and I wanted to share. Got other suggestions? Please let me know :-) GEEK Magazine – gives you everything geek — TV, gadgets, music and comics! Total Film – douses you with extras like Blu-ray reviews, movie trailers, […]
This week saw the first inaugural use of the word “gay,” the premier of FOX’s scary-as-shit serial killer show, ‘The Following’ (good stuff) and way too many headlines about lip-syncing and ‘Star Wars’. Turns out, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ is getting that sequel after all (filming starts in May), and Hollywood is cranking out a shit-ton of TV pilots (mostly […]
Wearable tech remains a hot topic after CES, and like a geek I’m anxiously awaiting my Pebble watch to ship, maybe next week. (Fingers crossed.) More large-Screen phones are coming soon to a Best Buy near you, which makes the whole ‘wearable tech’ thing a little frightening. The mostly free Social Media Week in Washington, DC is happening February 18-22, and […]
Second-screen activity offers the audience a host of new options that enrich the viewing experience, but it also creates an increasing background noise level that makes it hard for TV vieweres to do what they sat down to do in the first place: watch the show. The second-screen trend has been picking up steam as smartphones and tablets proliferate. […]
LostRemote: How does Fox approach social TV? David Wertheimer, President of Digital: We recognize that social media is a 24/7 phenomenon. We may have certain days and times that we broadcast the shows, but we really live by the fact that social is 24/7. We try to go where the viewers are and make sure they […]
Techcrunch guest author, Vinod Khosla, calls these the “unhyped” new areas in internet and mobile. Khosla goes into much greater detail in his post, and includes a couple of more. Data Reduction or Filters (Siri, Recorded Future) Recorded Future: We help users understand relationships between entities and events over time. Big data or Analytics (Billguard, The Climate Corporation, […]
In a post from The Daily Zen, the author talks about writing lists that are meaningful – thinking about meaningful things, places and people, and keeping a record of them, can be good for the soul. The author shares 10 different list ideas, of which this post was inspired. As you hover over each of the images below, […]
