I think DRM is going to be the big legal and philosophical issue of the next 10 years. It involves so much change that needs to be made to the way we understand everything that it is mindboggling. LATER UPDATE: also relevant because in Ro some agency has decided bloggers linking or featuring youtube content… [Read more…]
October 17, 2008
are probably SNL or Daily Show contributors too. I got this courtesy of a tweet from Contagious and it’s just so hilarious …
October 13, 2008
The way I know I am an old person is by watching this video which features 4, supposedly, opera singers doing opera renditions of popular songs. But they are not fat, not sweating, not scary, not carrying scarves…they’re actually pretty hot, and they are number 10 or close in the UK album chart.somehow, however, this… [Read more…]
October 10, 2008
September 28, 2008
I have known the Onion for a long time, having discovered it, I admit, via their smart personals page (BTW, people looking to set up a dating site for people who are NOT brainless teenagers, you might want to check out the Onion Personals). Now, via Fallon, I see they are putting together this great… [Read more…]
September 27, 2008
A while back I asked the readers of this blog if they would recommend placing ads on OTV to their customers. Not necessarily overwhelmingly, but with a clear majority, they said “no”.OTV, as a mentioned previously, is Romania’s trashy crazy/alien TV station which broadcasts mainly from one studio and focuses on “uncovering” dramas, like murders… [Read more…]
September 22, 2008
Romania has lot of bloggers, a few good ones and a handful of bloggers who piss a lot of people off. One of them recently pissed off a huge media conglomerate by making a silly – although distasteful – joke, which the media conglomerate itself aired thus creating a huge media scandal. The immediate result… [Read more…]
September 13, 2008
A while back, one famous CD in Romania starred in a commercial for …umm, something, which became quite famous as it was mixing rather niftily some Star Wars references with good old Romanian knee-slapping humor. Now, someone in Romania’s own 24/7 movie channel PROTV, who I bet has no clue of the important decision he… [Read more…]
June 15, 2008
I love this video of Stiller making a VIRAL. Watch and learn [as an aside, if ever made to choose between Bale and RDJ I think I would go for Bale. But it took a whole weekend of thinking to get to this conclusion...]Also, this video was made for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards.
June 2, 2008
A very interesting article about book publishing here discussing ways in which print can be kept alive. The suggestion is very much what might work also for movies: simply place cheap electronic versions on Kindle or such devices and print hardbacks for the real fans who MUST have the paper version. I think it’s smart
Always a good read
October 19, 2008
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