Posted in Indie filmmaking, Richard Widmark, Roxbury, actor on Monday, 31 March 2008, 11:46 pm | No Comments »
Actor Richard Widmark passed away last week, at 93 years old. He was a archetypal noir tough (and occassionally psycho) guy on screen, and a nice guy in real life. Widmark, had a house in Roxbury, Connecticut, the small (population 900) town where I grew up . I mowed his lawn twice and saw him [...]
Posted in Groundswell, Web 2.0, blogs, books, marketing, social networking, wikis on Sunday, 30 March 2008, 7:01 pm | No Comments »
Amazon’s cross-selling engine alerted me to this book, Groudswell: Winning in a World Transformed By Social Technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, available on Amazon 21 April 2008.
Judging from an article by the authors in MIT Sloan Management Review, while it may have the lowdown on ‘groundswelling’ it’s not exactly groundbreaking. But, nevertheless, it [...]
Posted in China, Cyworld, Japan, Korea, Mixi, QC, Web 2.0, facebook, social networking on Sunday, 30 March 2008, 5:26 pm | No Comments »
[UPDATE, 22 April 2008, 9:30am HK Time: While speaking with Benjamin Joffee yesterday, he updated me on the latest and most accurate QQ statistics: There are now 220 million internet users in China. 70% of these (approx. 154 million people) have QQ accounts. Many people have multiple QQ accounts, thus the total number of QQ [...]
Posted in Indie filmmaking, NAB, Walter Murch, film editing, post-production on Saturday, 29 March 2008, 1:28 pm | No Comments »
I watched these videos (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) of Walter Murch speaking at the Final Cut Pro Users Group (FCPUG) Supermeet at NAB in Las Vegas in April 2007 a while ago–but forgot to post about them. This is a truly excellent talk by an erudite guy with wide-ranging interests who knows how [...]
Posted in Anne Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Variety, Web 2.0, World Wide Computer, cinema, cloud computing, crowd sourcing, film criticism, long tail, open sourcing, wisdom of crowds on Friday, 28 March 2008, 10:37 am | 2 Comments »
Ok. So the single book I brought with me to India last week was Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch, which I wrote about 3 weeks ago and now apparently is high on the WSJ Business bestseller list (was high? Oddly, I can’t find it listed there today, so perhaps it just had a hot-selling week. [...]
Posted in Google Analytics, Indie filmmaking, Web 2.0, YouTube, google, online video on Thursday, 27 March 2008, 4:38 pm | No Comments »
Read/Write web posted about Google/YouTube’s new Insight today. Insight is like Google Analytics for your YouTube videos. Looks supercool. I’ll set it up on my YouTube account, as soon as I have a free minute. Google Analytics, (btw if you haven’t implemented it on your web site) totally rocks–and is totally free.
Posted in 4K, Final Cut, Indie filmmaking, REDCINE, Red Alert, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cinematography, digital cinema, film editing, high-definition, workflow on Thursday, 27 March 2008, 12:15 pm | No Comments »
EXCELLENT RED INFO NUMBER 1: I’m about to wire transfer the balance for my complete Red order. In finalizing what exactly to order, I found these 12 excellent videos to be invaluable, as they show in clear detail the parts of the Red camera, how to use them, how they work:
Learn All About the Red [...]
Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 6:06 pm | No Comments »
The “Enterprise 2.0″ Conference will be held 9-12 June in Boston. While I won’t be able to attend, it looks like it’ll have interesting talks. The conference themes are:
SaaS & Cloud Computing
Search 2.0
Social Networking in the Enterprise
I subscribe via RSS to a bunch of blogs of thought leaders in Enterprise 2.0 and recently added blogs [...]
Posted in India, Off-topic, Taj Mahal, cameras, photography on Monday, 24 March 2008, 11:08 am | No Comments »
I’m in India, for some business meetings. Went to the the Taj Mahal in Agra yesterday. Much more stunning and beautiful than I had imagined it. (So, I took a lot of photos!) Click on the photo above for full hi res version. Note how small the people look, to get a size of the [...]
Posted in Filmart, HKIFF, Hong Kong, Indie filmmaking, Panavision Genesis, Red Camera, Red digital cinema, cinematography, digital cinema, post-production on Thursday, 20 March 2008, 1:45 am | 2 Comments »
I attended Filmart for part of Tuesday and Wednesday (yesterday), just down the road in the Hong Kong Convention Centre. Filmart is a pan-Asian film and TV market. This was the first film market I’ve been to, so I found it fascinating.
I saw:
Production companies from around Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Philippines, [...]
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