- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Internet
The latest in net neutrality
July 24, 2008 – 7:57 am
Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said last week he would seek “enforcement action” against Comcast Corp. for slowing down internet traffic due to users downloading movies and other media, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. “You can’t limit consumers that way,” he told a news conference in Washington, D.C. The announced is seen […]
First classical music critics, then books critics, now movie critics
April 1, 2008 – 12:11 pm
From the New York Times . . .
Given that movie blogs are strewn about the Web like popcorn on a theater floor, there are those who say that movie criticism is not going away, it’s just appearing on a different platform. And no one would argue that fewer critics and the adjectives they hurl would […]
Countersuit in legal battle in which record company alleges 7-year-old girl downloaded ‘Shake That Ass Bitch’
March 26, 2008 – 8:32 am
From The Chronicle of Higher Education . . .
A legal battle that began nearly three years ago when the Recording Industry Association of America sued a 7-year-old girl for allegedly downloading pirated music has wound up raising questions about the legality of the industry group’s investigative tactics. Now the case is entering a new chapter […]
Smartvoter.org
January 17, 2008 – 1:38 pm
In this week’s Weekly Geekly, internet culture columnist Steven Lacey, in writing about a website that can help you cut through all of the chatter swirling around the presidential campaign and find out what the candidates’ real platforms are, meant to type www.smartvoter.org. Instead he wrote www.smartervote.org, which is the wrong web address leading to […]
Journal: TV’s nightmare
December 5, 2007 – 8:21 am
From my Freeze Frame column in today’s City Paper . . .
I had a dream last week, a nightmare really, about being chased and then eaten alive. Sounds like a scene from Night of the Living Dead? Yep. But that’s not the weird part.
That night I did indeed watch for the first time the 1968 […]
Journal: Internet radio in trouble
November 29, 2007 – 4:44 pm
From Wired Magazine:
It’s a sad day for internet radio enthusiasts. Bloomberg reports that AOL and Yahoo may shut down their web radio services as a result of a 38 percent increase in royalty fees.
“We’re not going to stay in the business if cost is more than we make long term,” Ian Rogers, general manager at […]
Your Daily Vid: Billy Collins
November 24, 2007 – 10:38 am
Here’s an example of what this newfangled media called the Internet can do for the old arts like poetry. Billy Collins is a former U.S. Poet Laureate. His poetry is lyrical, elegiac and wonderful to speak aloud. He appears regularly on A Prairie Home Companion and collaborates with other artists, like this animator Juan Delcan.
This […]
Journal: Don’t believe the hype
November 21, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Classical music is dead. Long live classical music.
From “The Well-tempered Web: The Internet may be killing the pop CD, but it’s helping classical music,” by Alex Ross, published in the Oct. 22 issue of the New Yorker. For more on Ross and his new history of classical music in the 20th century, go to www.therestisnoise.com.
Between […]
Keen’s Cult of the Amateur
November 9, 2007 – 10:48 am
For those of you who get your weekend jollies watching BookTV on C-SPAN (like I do), you’ll want to know about the Authors@Google series if you don’t know already. These long talks by well-known writers and novelists are recorded and posted on YouTube and Google Video. Recent guests have included Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things and […]
After the Deluge
September 6, 2007 – 11:03 pm
After spending all day staring at a computer screen, it takes a lot to drag me in front of one again. My tired eyes aren’t used to reading books or comic strips on a monitor.
Sometimes, though, a story comes along that makes it worth switching my computer back on after supper. Brooklyn comic artist Josh […]
