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Macromedia's Flash was a major game-changer on the Internet when it came out in the nineties. It allowed the authoring and playing of complex, even interactive, media content in an era when the web was still largely one way, from the provider to the user. Besides being the basis for early media...

Got any? Any media allowed (books, comics, movies, TV, whatever). Here's a few of mine: Sherlock Holmes - A great detective, yes, but also an interesting, well-realized character. He has stood the test of time for good reasons. Jean-Luc Picard - My favorite Star Trek captain. He grew a lot...

So, first we had Jeff Bezos of Amazon buying The Washington Post. Then Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs of Apple, bought a majority stake in The Atlantic. And now Marc Benioff of Salesforce is buying Time Magazine. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife are buying Time Magazine And...

Hot on the heels of Hugh Hefner's passing, we learn of the death of an even bigger (much bigger, in fact), if lesser known media mogul. Samuel Newhouse of Conde Nast (GQ, Vogue, and many more) has died at 89. Estimated net worth, even after taking a bath due to falling advertising revenues, was...

Okay, first a loose definition. "Headcanon" is when fans of a media property have their own ideas of how a character should look or which two characters should hook up or who should die in a series or whatever. For instance, most of us old school, pre-Peter Jackson Tolkien fans had ideas about...