July 2010
Scott Pilgrim World Premiere Tonight
Me: btw, i have to leave here soon. guess where i am going.
Friend: Die a million deaths
Friend: Then come back to die a billion more
Me: guuuuuuueeeeeeessssssssssssssssssss
Friend: Oh I know.
Me: NO. GUESS.
Friend: I know Steve.
Friend: And saying it aloud will break my fucking heart
Me: SAY IT.
Friend: scott pilgrim
Me: RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT
Friend: God, I hate you sometimes.
“What’s emerging is a new rhetoric of development and globalization in what I am...”
– Tricia Wang on Neo-informationalism
After reading Ben’s writeup of Tricia’s talk on Neo-informationalism, I had to revisit her passage on the anthropomorphization of information. It’s a brilliant challenge to the religion of ‘Open’ that many of us subscribe to. If you’re the type who likes to...
“Hulu’s estimated viewership shriveled to 24 million in June, from 43.5...”
– Hulu’s sharp decline in viewership underscores inconsistency in measuring size of online audience - latimes.com
The Geeks Got Game!
zadi:
Blip.tv Develops Pre-roll That Offers Free Downloads on Other Devices
Excerpts from Ad Age article:
What if your pre-roll video ads were more than just repurposed-for-the-web-TV spots, the kind agencies have in spades? What if pre-roll could do more?
A group of developers at start-up Blip.tv, a purveyor of amateur and semi-pro web series, was wondering that recently, while pondering...
Like it or not, Relativity's Ryan Kavanaugh is now...
According to this slightly wide-eyed story from Esquire, before Kavanaugh agrees to finance a picture, its particulars (principal actors, budget, genre, filmmaker, release date, MPAA rating) are “fed into an elaborate Monte Carlo simulation, a risk-assessment algorithm normally used to evaluate financial instruments based on the past performance of similar products…. After running...
"Webisode"
I fucking love this company.
mikehudack:
evangotlib:
If one more person uses this word or if I see it on one more agency RFP I am going to just lose it. It is an episode. It is a show. A “webisode” is not a thing.
Stop it. Just stop it.
Also, you can’t “make it go viral.” Next person who asks me to help them make their content go viral will get a smack.
Come on people.
Ladies and...
Bill Murray GQ interview = must read →
chriscantwell:
michaeltruly:
Snippet: ”Well, I never went to see Year One, but people who did, including other Ghostbusters, said it was one of the worst things they had ever seen in their lives. So that dream just vaporized.”
I like that they talk about Quick Change in this. One of my favorite movies ever.
Watchmikehudack:
bliptv:
We’ve built an entirely new video player. It’s called Stratos, and it’s a complete ground-up rewrite of our old player. Built from scratch. Some of the enhancements include: better HD video performance, more reliable playback for viewers with slow connections and better scrubbing / seek-ahead performance for everyone.
In addition to those significant performance...
It's Check Week: 77% bigger than last Check Week
bliptv:
It’s Check Week again here at blip. Mashable has the story. This Check Week is 77% bigger than last quarter’s check week. The number of shows earning $1,000 or more is up 57% (this number grew 30% last quarter too). This quarter’s top earner is getting a check for $123,000. We were thinking about giving them a giant Ed McMahon style check but decided against it. It’s just not our...
WatchHahahahahaaaaa
giannii:
Frightening, seriously.