Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Powell blasts Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on digital tuners...

Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell ripped off an angry response to TV makers Friday after they basically refused his timetable for equipping nearly all sets with digital tuners. . . . [ MORE]

[The All Electric Media Weblog]

Cable TV Ad Bureau (CAB) Says Net Viewership Decline Sets Stage For Cable Dominance

[The All Electric Media Weblog]

Broadcast Engineering on Format Conversion

[The All Electric Media Weblog]

An Epic Journey in Images and Sounds. In this Lincoln Center Festival event, with strong work from the Iranian-born filmmaker Shirin Neshat and the composer and vocalist Sussan Deyhim, its parts are greater than the whole. By Anne Midgette. [New York Times: Arts]

Trying to Avoid a Box Office Dud. Castle Rock and Warner Brothers are still coming to terms with THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH, which stars Eddie Murphy. By Michael Cieply. [New York Times: Arts]

Springsteen Protects His New CD's Online in an Old-Fashioned Way. Bruce Springsteen has thwarted prerelease of his music on the Internet not through digital protection or online policing, but with an old-fashioned lock-and-key approach. By Chris Nelson. [New York Times: Arts]

Or, as Lou Reed sang, "Tramps like us, we were born to pay."

Geographic's Film Vessel Ready to Sail. National Geographic has become active as developer and co-producer of major Hollywood films based on its own original work. By Rick Lyman. [New York Times: Movies]

Amazing article by Howard Rheingold on smart mobs.

The big battle coming over the future of smart mobs concerns media cartels and government agencies are seeking to reimpose the regime of the broadcast era in which the customers of technology will be deprived of the power to create and left only with the power to consume. That power struggle is what the battles over file-sharing, copy protection, regulation of the radio spectrum are about. Are the populations of tomorrow going to be users, like the PC owners and website creators who turned technology to widespread innovation? Or will they be consumers, constrained from innovation and locked into the technology and business models of the most powerful entrenched interests?

[Boing Boing Blog]