YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video
YouTube is offering a cash prize to the first user to upload a video with a shred of originality or artistic merit.Read More
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Google Talk: Inventing the Movies
From: AtGoogleTalks – Scott Kirsner visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Inventing the Movies: Hollywood’s Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs.” This event took place on October 16, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. From Edison to the iPod, from the Warner Read MoreRead More
Redefining Digital Content Distribution
Ross L. Pruden has republished his lecture “Redefining Digital Content Distribution, or Why Apple is About To Get Its Ass Kicked” from The Conversation in Berkeley in October. It covers license-based digital content distribution and the possible downfall of Apple. …I’m a filmmaker myself, and I’ve spent a long time studying movie distribution so I’m Read MoreRead More
Indie sector waiting for digital revolution
Variety reports on the uncertainty of indie distribution in the new Digital Age. …You’ve got cable-based platforms, you’ve got (Internet)-based platforms, you’ve got mobile platforms — it’s all over the place,” D’Amico says. While distribution via emerging digital platforms may prove wildly profitable for indies a few years down the road, for now, as D’Amico Read MoreRead More
Deeje Cooley from Adobe Media Player
From: PixelHeadsNetwork – Deeje Cooley, from the Adobe Media Player division tells us all about their new media player. Learn why as a video producer you want your show on it, how to syndicate it, how to monetize your content through it, plus much more! Adobe – Media PlayerRead More
8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
TechRadar.com has some tips to help you double your browser’s speed in just five minutes …Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever. But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about Read MoreRead More
Tips for writers: Go away, Internet
Is the Internet a tool or distraction? We it’s certainly both and all writers need to find a balance. Although, finding that balance is easier said than done. Jacket Copy, the book blog of The L.A. Times, takes a look at some of the more drastic measures some writers have implemented to avoid “the web Read MoreRead More
Sept. 19, 1982: Can’t You Take a Joke? :-)
With a short post to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University, on September 19, 1982 at 11:44 AM, Scott Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. …1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: 19-Sep-82 11:44 Read MoreRead More
Tales from the Digital Frontier: Breakthroughs in Storytelling
by Carolyn Handler Miller As writers, we are practitioners of an ancient art: the art of storytelling. Storytelling is a continually evolving form of expression. The first storytellers had only one simple tool at their disposal – the spoken word. Later storytellers had more sophisticated methods of spinning tales, using staged dramas, printed texts, and Read MoreRead More
Sites of the Week: DIY Distribution Companies
Sites of the Week: Websites to help sell your film online. This week we highlight a group of companies dedicated to assisting filmmakers in DIY film distribution. The following sites offer a wide range of services to help filmmakers reach audiences and simplify the process of selling their films. IndieFlix …IndieFlix is dedicated to providing Read MoreRead More
Audience Building Tools
Brian Chirls discuss a strategy for picking and using tools to build an audience for your film on the Internet. Make sure you checkout a list of tools on his website here: Chirls.comRead More
Interview with the Director of Marketing at TurnHere
Recent interview with Morgan Brown, Director of Marketing at TurnHere, Inc., Drury Bynum discussed how TH has leveraged a worldwide network of filmmakers to provide one of the most successful online marketing platforms for small businesses to large brands. THE VALUE OF VIDEO: HOW TO MARKET YOUR COMPANY ONLINE from drury bynum on Vimeo. From Read MoreRead More