Anna Washenko
Anna is a freelance writer in Chicago. She has been known to marathon Daria episodes on Hulu Plus and is slowly growing to accept and appreciate the existence of eBooks. Her very concise thoughts can be found on Twitter at @AnnaGetsPithy.

Trent Reznor and Beats by Dre to launch new streaming music service

Trent Reznor and Beats by Dre to launch new streaming music service

In an interview with The New Yorker, Trent Reznor detailed his plans for building a new streaming music platform through a partnership with Beats by Dre. The collaboration between the Nine Inch Nails frontman and the company bearing the name of legendary hip-hop artist and producer Dr. Dre was first announced earlier this year, and now Reznor has divulged some [...]

Past seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia arrive on Netflix

Past seasons of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia arrive on Netflix

Netflix announced that it now has all seven past seasons of the irreverent FX sitcom It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia available for U.S. members. The wildly inappropriate show, now in its eighth season, may be the perfect antidote to all the sappy holiday fluff appearing on TV this time of year. The show follows the exploits of “The Gang,” the [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution

Apple CEO Tim Cook drops biggest hint yet about a TV revolution

Tim Cook has been making the interview rounds this past week, and in one of them the Apple CEO implied that his company has jumpstarted its work in the realm of television. “When I go into my living room and turn on my TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years,” he said on [...]

Why is Pandora-style radio growing faster than Spotify and Rdio?

Why is Pandora-style radio growing faster than Spotify and Rdio?

While conventional wisdom has known for years that sales of CDs are declining in favor of digital music sources, a new survey by NPD analyzed exactly what listeners’ preferences are today. The results showed that internet radio and on-demand listening services moved into second place for means of enjoying music, pushing CDs down to third. Classic AM/FM radio held onto [...]

Newsweek kills its print version, goes digital-only starting in 2013

Newsweek kills its print version, goes digital-only starting in 2013

It’s no secret that traditional journalism is having a hard time of it as more and more people shift to digital media. The latest big change is that popular magazine Newsweek announced that it will cease printing paper copies and switch to a digital-only format at the end of this year. December 31 will be the final print edition of the [...]