A few more half baked ones on new media being scooped up by the mainstream: Interesting pick up by the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks ago on LonelyGirl15. I don’t actively follow web dramas, but it seems like shows like quarterlife get picked up by NBC, it may be that LonelyGirl15 peaked a few [...]
As I’ve mentioned in the past, the Hollywood Writer’s strike is creating an opportunity for other kinds of television shows, and new media in particular. 23/6, in particular is one of those kinds of entrepreneurial stabs, which is making a run for the Daily Show in terms of a parallel content (political satire from a [...]
Well, rampant speculation about all things Google seems to be on the rise these days, what with Google getting into cell phones and now another rumour that its getting into TV courtesy of the Guardian. Turns out Simon Fuller is in talks with Google about revolutionizing life as we — *sorry, I mean, television as [...]
During the last Hollywood strike, which lasted something like 20 weeks (incidentally, around 20 years ago), new methods of programming evolved to deal with the fact that … well, there weren’t any writers. More reality based programming, for example, like COPS and America’s Most Wanted, as well as America’s Home Videos debuted, which have stuck [...]
If the writers in the Hollywood strike want 2.5% of gross profits from media that is distributed digitally, I don’t see what’s got up in Michael Eisner’s “cry to Apple, peasants!” craw. After all, he complains that new media is broke and They aren’t making any money from their new ventures.
Well, if that’s the case [...]
It seems like over the past few days, the entire technosphere has gotten them worked up into a righteous frothy debate over the OpenSocial API, wringing their hands with what it will mean to Facebook, Google, and all parts in between — ignoring, perhaps, one of the larger, and certainly much more meaningful to the [...]
