Following its paywall (payfence?) announcement, Gray Lady readers across the web have discovered a number of loopholes. Now the Times has moved in to close them.
The New York Times's looming mighty paywall, which is live in Canada and goes operational in the U.S. in five days, has sprung some leaks--a few of them self-inflicted. As Times readers across the web have scrambled to find ways around and through the wall, the Gray Lady has responded. Here are the loopholes we've heard of so far:
1. The Javascript hack
The loophole: Joshua Benton at Nieman Journalism Lab noticed the other day that, as he put it, "when you reach your 20-article limit and try to read more, the contraband article actually loads just fine in your browser"--it's merely obscured by an overlay urging you to pony up. The overlay was just "a little Css and Javascript," he noted, and...
The New York Times's looming mighty paywall, which is live in Canada and goes operational in the U.S. in five days, has sprung some leaks--a few of them self-inflicted. As Times readers across the web have scrambled to find ways around and through the wall, the Gray Lady has responded. Here are the loopholes we've heard of so far:
1. The Javascript hack
The loophole: Joshua Benton at Nieman Journalism Lab noticed the other day that, as he put it, "when you reach your 20-article limit and try to read more, the contraband article actually loads just fine in your browser"--it's merely obscured by an overlay urging you to pony up. The overlay was just "a little Css and Javascript," he noted, and...
- 3/23/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
From the first peek at the trailer it was clear this was going to be trashy cinema, but would it be the kind that would entertain and enthral? In a word, no. The billing of this as a comedy/horror is strange because it is neither funny nor scary. In fact, it’s dire.
The story is a predictable enough one: a ragtag band of strangers end up shacked up together in a cabin in the woods when there are zombies on the loose wanting to feast on their brains. End of pitch, end of plot.
Movies like this can be entertaining - ramp up the fear, have the characters getting on one another's nerves, then watch it go. But you need a good cast for that - and a good script. Brain Dead has neither, and should go down in the annals of filmmaking as one of the worst movies ever made.
The story is a predictable enough one: a ragtag band of strangers end up shacked up together in a cabin in the woods when there are zombies on the loose wanting to feast on their brains. End of pitch, end of plot.
Movies like this can be entertaining - ramp up the fear, have the characters getting on one another's nerves, then watch it go. But you need a good cast for that - and a good script. Brain Dead has neither, and should go down in the annals of filmmaking as one of the worst movies ever made.
- 1/20/2011
- Shadowlocked
Night of the Demons, Witchboard, these are films that horror fans have grown up watching over and over again. So when Kevin Tenney, the director behind Witchboard and Night of the Demons, has a new film coming out, we here at Bdhr take notice. Kevin Tenney's latest effort, Brain Dead starring Joshua Benton, Sarah Grant Brendecke, David Crane and Andy Forrest, is a homage to the horror films of yesteryear. We also wanted to know what Kevin Tenney thought of the Night of the Demons remake starring Shannon Elizabeth (Scary Movie), Edward Furlong (Brainscan) and Monica Keena (Freddy vs. Jason) and in a cameo appearance Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead). Here's what he had to say about everything.
Who is Kevin Tenney and what are you all about?
I’m a father, a husband, and a filmmaker in that order. I was born in Hawaii to a military family.
Who is Kevin Tenney and what are you all about?
I’m a father, a husband, and a filmmaker in that order. I was born in Hawaii to a military family.
- 10/27/2010
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
This week's roundup of DVD releases include fan favorites from TV, a scarred comic book antihero, the next installment of The Lost Boys, the requisite creature features, a Roger Corman set, and SyFy's apocalyptic view of the world. Also, don't forget to check out the soundtrack from the hottest vampire TV show right now (well, there's only one playing currently) at the very end of this list.
While waiting for your orders to arrive by mail, you can always catch up on Camera Obscura for free with our Episode 1-7 episodes & recap or watch the newest episodes on Dailymotion. You can also learn all about creature making from our Q&A With Camera Obscura's FX Maestro Jeff Farley.
On with the list....
Jonah Hex
Directed by Jimmy Hayward
Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (review), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter...
While waiting for your orders to arrive by mail, you can always catch up on Camera Obscura for free with our Episode 1-7 episodes & recap or watch the newest episodes on Dailymotion. You can also learn all about creature making from our Q&A With Camera Obscura's FX Maestro Jeff Farley.
On with the list....
Jonah Hex
Directed by Jimmy Hayward
Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (review), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter...
- 10/12/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Horror chicks Michelle Tomlinson and Kimberly Amato are back with the second episode of their entertaining webseries, The Mis-Adventures of McT & A.
Displaying a keen marketing savvy, this time around McT & A have delivered a loving parody of the whole Twilight phenomenon, written by Amato, just in time for the recent release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This episode, dubbed The Mis-Adventures of McT & A: The Twilight Spoof, takes a different approach than the first, which was totally improvised. Amato and Tomlinson portray two überfans of a Twilight-like series of movies. They apparently spend all their free time arguing the relative merits of Edward and Jacob…I mean, Josh and Landall, the Edward and Jacob analogues they worship. Their ongoing discussion is illustrated with tongue-in-cheek “dramatizations” that make their various points and lampoon the overblown acting endemic to the series being spoofed. McT & A are aided and abetted in their...
Displaying a keen marketing savvy, this time around McT & A have delivered a loving parody of the whole Twilight phenomenon, written by Amato, just in time for the recent release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This episode, dubbed The Mis-Adventures of McT & A: The Twilight Spoof, takes a different approach than the first, which was totally improvised. Amato and Tomlinson portray two überfans of a Twilight-like series of movies. They apparently spend all their free time arguing the relative merits of Edward and Jacob…I mean, Josh and Landall, the Edward and Jacob analogues they worship. Their ongoing discussion is illustrated with tongue-in-cheek “dramatizations” that make their various points and lampoon the overblown acting endemic to the series being spoofed. McT & A are aided and abetted in their...
- 7/25/2010
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
The first issue of mine magazine has been released, Time Inc.'s 10-issue experimental mash-up of its different magazines into a kind of printed RSS feed, and the results are not going to put Google Reader out of business anytime soon.
A number of the magazine's 31,000 subscribers received content intended for other subscribers (i.e. In Style fans ended up with Sports Illustrated content). Time Inc. spokespeople say that the glitch was the result of a computer error. To make matters worse, many of the stories picked by the project's editors were up to two years old--something that Time Inc. claims was done on purpose since it "was never the intent for this to be a breaking news vehicle," and that future issues will have more recent content
But the test subscribers have another, bigger qualm: creepy ads. Joshua Benton, the director of Harvard University's Nieman University Lab, said that...
A number of the magazine's 31,000 subscribers received content intended for other subscribers (i.e. In Style fans ended up with Sports Illustrated content). Time Inc. spokespeople say that the glitch was the result of a computer error. To make matters worse, many of the stories picked by the project's editors were up to two years old--something that Time Inc. claims was done on purpose since it "was never the intent for this to be a breaking news vehicle," and that future issues will have more recent content
But the test subscribers have another, bigger qualm: creepy ads. Joshua Benton, the director of Harvard University's Nieman University Lab, said that...
- 4/17/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
• Monogram Releasing has announced that it will release Kevin Tenney’s zombie gorefest Brain Dead in select theaters March 20 as part of The B Movie Nation. See below for a complete list of the venues where the movie will be splattering onto screens.
Scripted by Dale Gelineau, Brain Dead (which has no connection to either the Peter Jackson film a.k.a. Dead/Alive, or the Roger Corman production with Bill Pullman) begins with a meteorite falling to Earth with an organism attached that infects a fisherman and turns him into a brain-eating ghoul. Pretty soon he has transformed numerous others into ravenous undead, and they terrorize a motley sextet of people who take shelter in a cabin in the woods. Joshua Benton, David Crane, Sarah Grant Brendecke, Michelle Tomlinson, Andy Forrest and Cristina Tiberia star; Bad Biology’s Gabe Bartalos created the copious makeup FX. You can check out...
Scripted by Dale Gelineau, Brain Dead (which has no connection to either the Peter Jackson film a.k.a. Dead/Alive, or the Roger Corman production with Bill Pullman) begins with a meteorite falling to Earth with an organism attached that infects a fisherman and turns him into a brain-eating ghoul. Pretty soon he has transformed numerous others into ravenous undead, and they terrorize a motley sextet of people who take shelter in a cabin in the woods. Joshua Benton, David Crane, Sarah Grant Brendecke, Michelle Tomlinson, Andy Forrest and Cristina Tiberia star; Bad Biology’s Gabe Bartalos created the copious makeup FX. You can check out...
- 3/13/2009
- Fangoria
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