Monday, April 29, 2013

Kickstarter Can’t Usurp Hollywood

Why Kickstarter Can’t Usurp the Hollywood Entertainment-Industrial Complex



A single episode of Game of Thrones costs $6 million to make. A single episode of Mad Men costs approximately $2.3 million. You simply can’t Kickstart or raise that kind of money on Indiegogo … not Every. Single. Week.

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Kickstart a documentary about Dr. Demento!

Kickstart a documentary about Dr. Demento!



A group of filmmakers is working to make a feature-length documentary about the good doctor, but has only about $60,000 raised with four days to go. Under The Smogberry Trees would provide a sanctioned look into the life, works, and massive record collection of Barry “Dr. Demento” Hansen.

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Jack Shea, Legendary TV Director and Former DGA President, Dies at 84

Jack Shea, Legendary TV Director and Former DGA President, Dies at 84



Shea directed 110 episodes of The Jeffersons (he also wrote three episodes and produced 24), 91 episodes of Silver Spoons, 22 of The Ropers, 15 of Sanford and Son and 14 of Designing Women, one of which earned him his second Emmy nom in

His other credits include Growing Pains, The Waltons, Valerie, The Royal Family, The Golden Girls, Punky Brewster and Full House. His last credit came on the Sherman Hemsley sitcom Goode Behavior in 1997.

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

7 Years Later, Has Microsoft Kept Its Xbox 360 Promises?

7 Years Later, Has Microsoft Kept Its Xbox 360 Promises?



Many of the things Microsoft talked about at the beginning of the generation turned out to be so much vaporware. And often instead of pursuing them, Microsoft allowed the competition to. It’s pretty clear Microsoft was shining us on about… well, a lot.

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The Real Danger of Copying Music (It’s Not What You Think)

The Real Danger of Copying Music (It’s Not What You Think)

Copying a musician’s music ruins economic dignity. It doesn’t necessarily deny the musician any form of income, but it does mean that the musician is restricted to a real-time economic life. That means one gets paid to perform, perhaps, but not paid for music one has recorded in the past.

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xkcd: Embodying Nerd Culture to Rule the Web Comics Universe

xkcd: Embodying Nerd Culture to Rule the Web Comics Universe

Geek humor and the web go together like airline jokes and comedy clubs. One of the first tech-themed comics, NetBoy, debuted in 1994 and featured stick figures commenting on Internet culture. Nineteen years and countless binary jokes later, the most popular comic on the web is xkcd, a strip featuring … stick figures commenting on Internet culture.

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