PR Tips Adapated from Tech Startups
Monday, December 31st, 2007Adaptive Blue offers some nice advice for tech startups to get some good PR for their products. PR Tips For Startups: How To Get And Keep The Media Attention http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/?p=689 Same principles work for any content creator trying to stand out in the ...
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Christmas DVDs
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I got the Special Edition 2-Disc Transformers DVD for Christmas. Oh, my, is the acting bad, but it is literally the greatest movie in the world. I've watched it ten times now, but never straight through. I ...
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The Secret Screenwriting Formula
Saturday, December 29th, 2007My acting teacher Paul Gleason used to always talk about talent as a series of learned characteristics. "What my colleagues call talent," he'd say, "I call coordination." I have continually taken that to heart, and have always that ...
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Born Standing Up
Friday, December 28th, 2007I just got Steve Martin's new book Born Standing Up, a memoir of his younger years as a comic. A few weeks ago, he was on Charlie Rose, and he offered this great quote: "Be so good they can't ...
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Getting The Guild off the Ground
Friday, December 21st, 2007Bob and I recently interviewed the producing team behind The Guild: Felicia Day, Kim Evey, and Jane Selle Morgan for our latest article in Script Magazine (due out in February 2008). Felicia did a great little article in today's Web Video ...
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Innovation
Thursday, December 20th, 2007The Economist has a nice little bio on Evan Williams, the creator of Blogger and Twitter, who ideas that are wildly popular and are allowing people to change the world of communications. Among the nuggets in the piece: "Radical constraints, he believes, ...
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Who Cares About You?
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Seth Godin leads us along a blog path that features a discussion on self-promotion. Self-promotion, ultimately, should be about sharing your talents and ideas and serving others' goals. Creating joint ownership of an idea is an important way ...
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Hollywood Rumble!
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Bob and I worked on a great video with our old improv friend, John Baumgaertner. It's a commentary on the WGA Writer's Strike, and, yes, there are tons of parody videos out there, but ours is the only one ...
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Quarterlife Numbers in Question at NewTeeVee
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee writes about the viewership numbers of Marshall Herskovitz's Quarterlife. The Quarterlife team claims 2 million views, but the publicly-available viewer numbers may say otherwise. Based on Marshall's response via comment, the numbers mentioned in the article ...
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