RT @ScottKirsner: free copies of the “Fans, Friends & Followers” e-book for the duration of @SXSW: http://bit.ly/bs2k50 (spread the word?)
I’m working my way through this book but Scott is one person who has his finger on the pulse of independent distribution. The book is a summary of his thoughts and a series of interviews with successfull filmmakers with independent distribution.
EU parliament overwhelmingly votes against insidious nasty ACTA http://bit.ly/9xbgbL Great result. US should follow quickly. Nasty stuff
ACTA is a trade agreement being negotiated in secret so that even American politicians can’t see it. But old media are heavily involved and basically attempting to rewrite international law to favor their dying business models. Bad news for everyone else in the world.
iTunes LP’s spectacular lack of success! http://bit.ly/ca2DsI Just 29 albums in the store.
A nice balanced consideration of HTML 5 v Flash http://bit.ly/a1Fsrk Ultimately it’s about people not technologies
Contrary position to Ars Technica from Techdirt – block our ads if they’re not good. Please. http://bit.ly/bNDo6B
Last week Ars Technica rang a post about how those blocking ads were “hurting” their site. Techdirt has a contrary position.
TV’s One Man Bands in news – story in Washingon Post http://bit.ly/9zzTTj
Digital Production BuZZ Articles and tutorials index – The BuZZdex – now has 5103 articles http://bit.ly/9uXN68 All indexed by application, type, chapter and topic within the chapter.
Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats†http://tcrn.ch/axRraf – Only “old” media are building iPad apps to put up paywalls.
Another way traditional advertising is being subverted.- Transactional Advertising http://tcrn.ch/9AYjZt
XDCAM Firmware update now available http://bit.ly/97KKVC Some new features