A recent CBC Spark podcast introduced me to a great new series of “Paperworks videos”. The CommonCraft Show, produced by a husband and wife duo, uses low-tech paper cutouts and whiteboards to explain Web 2.0 tools and technologies.
Two Web 2.0 tools that I couldn’t imagine living without – RSS and social bookmarking. Both are easy […]

Digital audiences are changing the revenue, delivery and engagement strategies of entertainment companies – meaning “first window” is no longer synonymous with “TV” or “cinema”.
In her lunch-hour MIDMA Speaker Series session, FanTrust Entertainment Strategies President Catherine Warren will walk through:

Case studies of how new entertainment companies are capitalizing on digital fans (and what some […]

Is there money to be made in Facebook? According to Adonomics, the answer is yes, particularly for developers that tap into the fan bases of entertainment properties.
Adonomics is an online source of Facebook analytics, enabling visitors to track the growth, activity, and valuation of companies that develop applications for Facebook - as well as valuation […]

It’s on the grapevine, Baz Lurhrman’s Set to Screen podcasts have hit the iTunes store offering young filmmakers an insight into the process behind the making of new feature film Australia. Critic Lynden Barber mentions it in his blog Eyes Wired Open and credits Luhrmann and Fox for a genuine effort to reach out to […]

Wired has just posted about Uwe Boll’s Movieset video response (below) to the online petition trying to stop him from making films. They compare his statement to that of 50 Cent last summer.

“Oddly, this whole thing kind of reeks of previous empty promises made by similarly self-aggrandizing rapper 50 Cent. Only, Fiddy probably won’t […]