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Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 9:53am on Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Should Hollywood Be Afraid of the iPad?

LA Weekly reported on January 27, 2010:

"As Apple honcho Steve Jobs introduced the company's latest game-changer, the iPad, the Los Angeles Times called it "the most anticipated tablet since Moses." Over-hyped or not, the possibilities for this near 10-inch touch-screen computer will probably roll over us slowly -- the same way the iPhone's capabilities didn't really dawn on the marketplace until well into its run.

While the publishing, magazine and newspaper industries are licking their chops over the device as a possible, Kindle-like savior that might help them replace dwindling print subscribers and advertisers, one possibility for the thing that isn't talked about too much is as a mobile television and movie-viewing device. Via wi-fi and expected 3G capability (and in conjunction with the Apple TV storage and streaming device, or not), the thing could help you watch stored TV and movies from almost anywhere, even cars.

Of course, the big question for Hollywood is, where are you going to get that content? Will it be from NBC/Fox-run Hulu.com? Or will it be pirated, BitTorrent material? The industry is scrambling to get its head around the device.

"For TV industry watchers," writes Broadcasting & Cable, " ... the big questions concern the device's potential to disrupt both traditional TV distribution models and the recent disruptors challenging it."

The full story:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/city-news/ipad-hollywood-content/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 1:37pm on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

December 29, 2009: Gene Maddaus is now staff writer at LA Weekly. He was previously a reporter for the Daily Breeze. Karina Longworth is now film editor at LA Weekly. She was previously with Cinematical.com, which she co-founded.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 3:50pm on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Drex Heikes will be the LA Weekly's next editor, effective August 17, the weekly newspaper announced on June 29, 2009:

"During an 18-year career at the Los Angeles Times, Heikes served as editor of the Sunday magazine--where he directed both long-form news journalism and the coverage of local arts and culture--and as foreign affairs editor in the paper's Washington bureau. He spent the fall of 2001 in New York City supervising the Times' coverage of the World Trade Center attacks.

In 2005 Heikes was offered the number-two position at the Las Vegas Sun and a rare opportunity to recast the traditional afternoon daily as a magazine devoted to enterprise and analysis."