For the past ten years “tapped for web series” has usually been synonymous for “lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch.” Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don’t understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.
[From Google taps 'Family [...]
I saw Wall-E today at the Disney Studios at a special screening. Some observations:
This was a “perfect” movie. And that is not a term I use lightly. I deem perfect movies one’s whom I can’t find a single fault with. One who’s every frame is necessary, perfect and flawless. From soundtrack, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, [...]
In 2005 when I started my job, it was the nascent cusp of the Web++/2.0/whatever movement. The intention seemed to be taking the power of the Internet back as a connective medium and apply that as a means of shortening the distance between want and action. Basically that means using technology to connect people rather [...]
so this reminds me that Indigo Home Automation software + native iPhone App is going to absolutely MURDER as a home automation device. IndigoIndigo has an IP protocol and Zeroconf support. Our iPod Touch in our house is already doing this using a web based interface for us. Also consider the possibilities of using the [...]
Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people’s gains and I wish her well in Seattle!
[From Clever, Clever Girl » Big Changes and a Bigger Move]
This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city [...]
So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.
[From -- R.E.M. HOLLOW MAN --]
