AltWeeklies Wire
Oversharingnew

When the cops subpoena your Facebook information, here's what Facebook sends the cops.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-10-2012 |
Tech
Tags: Facebook Subpoena, Online Privacy
15 Awesome SXSW Interactive Panels Every Journalist Should Listen Tonew

If you're willing to spend the next few weeks listening, you can get almost as much out of Austin as the muckety-mucks who actually attend.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
03-19-2012 |
Media
Hi Bill Keller. The New York Times just stole our column. Should we sue?new

On Saturday, the New York Times blatantly and willfully violated the copyright of another publisher -- our publisher, actually.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
02-08-2012 |
Media
Is Net Neutrality Doomed to Failure?new

The debate over net neutrality hasn't gotten much smarter since 2006, when Ted Stevens, of Alaska, opposed the Net Neutrality Act by infamously declaring that the Internet was "a series of tubes" -- but it has intensified along predictable partisan fault lines.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-11-2011 |
Tech
Tim Wu, Historian of Information Empiresnew
To say that Tim Wu has written a history of the information age is sort of like saying that Howard Zinn wrote a history of the United States. Wu is a young scholar but the first line of his obituary is already written: a few years back he coined the term "Net neutrality," then got the FCC to embrace
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
02-08-2011 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Maddow to Media: Come Out of the Closetnew
Koppel blames journalism woes on cable TV, Maddow, Olbermann fight back.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
11-18-2010 |
Media
M.I.A. Talks Creativity, Politics, and Celebritynew

In September 2004, Diplo still had to explain who M.I.A. was, and he described her as a dancehall artist of Sri Lankan descent.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
10-04-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
50 States, 50 Bandsnew

We picked the all-time best band, all-time best solo artist, and best new(ish) band from each of the 50 states (plus a set from DC). We say the all-time best band to come out of Connecticut was the Carpenters. Michigan? The Stooges. Massachusetts? The Pixies. Care to argue about it?
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Brodeur, Carly Carioli and Lance Gould |
07-01-2008 |
Music
On the Downloadnew
AltWeeklies Award - Blog
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Avril's Tunes Appeal to Young Girls Lost in Reverienew
This review compares Avril Lavigne's "Under My Skin" to her previous work. "Under My Skin" is a more directly confrontational album in both sound and substance. Avril may have unplugged herself from the Matrix, but she’s found the freedom to act her rage.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Defenders of the Faithnew
The music Judas Priest made was easily marginalized, and at a remove of several decades, most of the material on their "Metalogy" boxed-set sounds ephemeral.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
07-08-2004 |
Reviews
Adventurous Cartographers of the Agitprop Groovenew
Capsule review of !!!'s "Louden Up Now" album.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
06-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: !!!, Louden Up Now