Terrible news. The two Current TV journalists arrested for trespassing in North Korea have been found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in labor camp. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were… Read more »
Two American journalists for Current TV, the cable/web network, were scheduled to go on trial in North Korea today. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were on a reporting assignment about North… Read more »
Even as developers struggle with Twitter’s abrupt platform changes — and worry about having their service shut down all together — compani… Read more »
– Sparkplay Media: Current Media and *AOL* vet Stephen Blumenfeld joined browser-based game developer Sparkplay Media as CTO. Blumenfeld h… Read more »
Al Gore’s Current Media has canceled plans for a $100 million IPO. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Current Media sa… Read more »
Report: It Costs Netflix Roughly a Nickel to Stream a Movie; Day Rayburn crunches some numbers and estimates that it costs the company .06 cents to stream a full SD movie… Read more »
Current TV, backed by Al Gore, is going through a bit of its own gore today, as it laid off about 60 of its employees. The exact count: it i… Read more »
The 2008 election and online video have had a lot of special moments together: The CNN-YouTube primary debates. Obama Girl. Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can.” Saturday Night Live’s “Fey-lin” skits. And even… Read more »
Sprinkling a little Twitter dust on your broadcast is the hot new trend in television. Both Current and C-SPAN have displayed “tweets” alongside their political coverage, and CNN’s Rick Sanchez created… Read more »
From Team Tiger Awesome comes this absurdist bit of genius comedy: An almost-parody of Boyz in the Hood, Pizza Robot tells the story of a hero for the early 90s generation… Read more »