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The freakonomics of captioning errors    (2006.03.15)

How do you count captioning errors? What if it’s actually impossible?

Notes from FCC interventions    (2006.03.09)

Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. asked for changes to requirements for captioning quality, among other things. What were the responses?

Exploding the conference business    (2006.03.08)

(Pace Jeff Jarvis.) For two months straight, I have received weekly inquiries about South by Southwest: Was I going? Or, as it was more commonly expressed, wasn’t I going? No, I’m not. I’ve been there twice, presenting on both occasions, and, while I have admitted that it SXSW is a great time in which one […]

‘My Jolly Corner’    (2006.03.05)

What does Guy Maddin have to say in Film Comment’s “My Jolly Corner”?

Gutted    (2006.03.05)

After WGBH and NCI gutted one office each of their captioning operations, let me just ask you a question: Are you sure you want to emerge victorious in a race to the bottom?

Johnny, are you Weir?    (2006.02.21)

Memo to dumpy sportswriter guys: There’s nothing wrong with being gay and there’s nothing wrong with asking if a public figure is

‘Chix with Stix’ redux    (2006.02.13)

Joe does Freakonomics™ to show that some elite women hockey players are big enough for the NHL

What do she-males and Torontoist have in common?    (2006.02.08)

Daniel (“Denial”) Harris, Diary of a Drag Queen: No sooner did I enter a chatroom than one ill-mannered lout began taunting me about my ugliness, a refrain taken up by yet another boor, both of whom received some encouragement from the she-bitches in the room, who love the spectacle of a public stoning, having starred […]

Giant Helvetica Week: 969    (2006.01.31)

Type I Saw Today: 969 or 666?