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Just kidding – sort of. If you’re in LA on Feb 15, check this out. Panelists include Blogcritics Doc Searls and Tony Pierce. RHIZOME.LA – LIVE FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE! Event Date: February 15, 2003 Time: 7:30pm Panelists: Mark Frauenfelder, Heather Havrilesky, Evan Williams, Susannah Breslin, Doc Searls, Tony Pierce Panel …

This is funny in the era of media consolidation: THE PARENT COMPANY of the SF Weekly and the owner of New York City’s Village Voice illegally colluded to shut down newspapers in Los Angeles and Cleveland in a scheme to avoid competing against each other, federal and state officials formally …

Mark Morford and I definitely saw the same halftime show, but he sees Shania Twain as an Android of the Apocalypse. Morford writes: And then out Shania strutted, all perfectly timed fireworks and perfect makeup and perfect cutesy head flips and perfect stiff hip flicks and a perfect toothy smile …

S.T. Karnick thinks he knows why Erle Stanley Gardner (of Perry Mason fame) is still popular and important: This code of ethics is part of something bigger: Gardner’s view of religious faith. Characters pray, and their prayers are answered. In the Ed Jenkins novelette “In Full of Account,” the narrator-protagonist, …

At the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit a couple of weeks ago, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) said he would reintroduce legislation to “ban ‘the current shakedown system’ of payola, bar companies that own both radio stations and concert promoters from using their leverage to bully artists and record labels …

The big, blustery, confident guy with spiky short hair singing Sinatra was probably the single most appealing performer when American Idol returned last week. It turns out he’s a Marine: Among the rank and the file is military man Joshua Gracin. The lance corporal is competing to be selected as …

Grammy telecast to be stocked with performances from top nominees: The Recording Academy scored an early coup this week for its upcoming 45th annual Grammy broadcast by signing a group of big-name acts — including Grammy nominees Bruce Springsteen and Norah Jones — to perform at the kudofest. Also scheduled …

After having hits and problems with Sony in almost equal measure, Sophie B. Hawkins went out on her own – she has done quite well: BANKRATE: How do you see your future, business-wise? HAWKINS: The thing in business is you have to have something you own, even if it’s on …

Postal dude goes mildly postal: Akron- A U.S. Postal Service manager was forced to disrobe and walk naked in front of about a dozen employees yesterday morning by a colleague who threatened to kill her unless she complied. Lonnie Wilson, 60, who planned to retire on Friday, is in Summit …

Anytime we can laugh at Microsoft, we will: Microsoft failed to heed its own advice and left many of its own servers unpatched against the worm. The frantic message came from the corporation’s information technology workers: “HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that are nonessential, please shut down.” The computer …