TV news giant David Brinkley dies at 82: For nearly half a century, Brinkley was one of the dominant faces in American broadcasting, first as a co-anchor of NBC television’s evening news program and later as host of the Sunday current affairs program on ABC, “This Week with David Brinkley.” …

Another great from Hollywood’s Golden Age gone – coincidentally, Peck’s Atticus Finch character from To Kill a Mockingbird was just chosen as the greatest hero in film history by the American Film Institute. AP’s obit: Peck, who won the best-actor Academy Award for playing the noble Atticus in 1962’s “To …

The megalomania continues – Microsoft in Wired: Microsoft has two visions for the future of digital media: unlimited choice for consumers, and unlimited control for producers. One thing’s for sure, it’s unlimited opportunity for Redmond. ….These two homes represent two futures. The first is what consumers want: digital media their …

Dude is down on Nokia (scroll down “News”): Between your insulting advertising, shitty fucking product and infuriating public comments it’s almost like you are TRYING to get gamers to hate you. I honestly cannot understand how a single company could make so many mistakes. I await your next move with …

The Golden Arches tweaking slogan: McDonald’s will launch a new ad campaign that is different, but not too different from the old campaign, and which continues to tap a universal theme: love. As with the old campaign, words like unsaturated fat and cholesterol will generally be avoided. The new theme …

Pricewaterhouse-Coopers predicts that spending on entertainment and media industry around the globe will surpass $1.1 trillion in 2003, rising by 3.7 percent from its 2002 level: The firm forecasts that, spurred by a 30% CAGR in broadband, growth opportunities for television distribution, videogames, Internet access and home video will also …

Very interesting thoughts on blog design from web designer Eric Siegmund: This “personal publishing revolution” that many of us are participating in has created new opportunities for expression, but it’s also created new problems that authors and journalists never before had to deal with. How many mainstream journalists, for example, …

Tells Congress it needs MORE POWER: The Federal Trade Commission asked Congress yesterday for broader powers to attack the rapidly growing problem of spam, which new studies show accounts for half of all e-mail traffic. In joint testimony, Chairman Timothy J. Muris and the four other commissioners told House and …

Coalition of Independent Music Stores quotes Mojo Nixon.

Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp with the latest development: The new optic-fiber technology will increase communication speeds to one gigabyte per second, up from 100 megabytes per second now available for homes and offices, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said in its evening edition. The technology developed by NTT, Japan’s …