I just found two articles in Wired by William Gibson. In God's Little Toys: Confessions of a Cut and Paste Artist, he talks about remixes and mashups and their impact on the culture, drawing comparisons to William Burroughs' cut-up experiments. It was written in July 2005, so it's not as prescient as most of his writing, but he sums things up nicely and makes some interesting points, mainly the blurring lines between sampling/theft and audience/artist.
Related to these ideas, I ran across a site of public domain movies available by torrent on www.publicdomaintorrents.com. They have a load of stuff: Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Buster Keaton shorts, Flash Gordon, Radar Men from the Moon, etc. They're free to download, sample, whatever. And most of them come in iPod/PDA compatible formats, too.
The other article, U2's City of Blinding Lights was written while hanging out with U2 on tour. It's a bit star-struck, but more by the technology behind the spectacle, rather than by the band itself. Good insight on what goes into creating these media spectacles.
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