Variety just laid off the one columnist of theirs I read (online) religiously, Anne Thompson. Anne will do fine. Variety, I’m not so sure. Seems like nose cut off to spite face. Old media seems to have enough challenges, without doing things like this to hasten their own demise… Good luck, Anne. I’ll link to [...]
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Less Variety
Posted in Anne Thompson, Variety, blogs, film criticism on Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 12:51 am | Leave a Comment »
Recommended: “Enterprise 2.0 Implementation”
Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, blogs, books, enterprise collaboration, knowledge management on Friday, 5 December 2008, 8:05 am | Leave a Comment »
I’m working on a big Enterprise 2.0 project for a client. Have read a bunch of books on the topic. This one (Enterprise 2.0 Implementation, by Aaron C. Newman and Jeremy G. Thomas) I’ve only just started, but looks to be quite good. Check it out:
A sinking tide lowers all ships, including “HMS Web 2.0″
Posted in Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, blogs, economics, recession on Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 9:06 am | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’m not happy to have been prescient in this case, but… Here’s what I wrote in this blog in January 2008, in response to a blog post touting Web 2.0 as an antidote for economic recession: A stock market crash is going to sink Web 2.0 ships, just as surely as it sinks others. [...]
There’s a Lotta Luv: Red #1304 Shoots Maitreya in Mongkok
Posted in 4K, Indie filmmaking, Maitreya, Red Camera, blogs, music video on Monday, 1 September 2008, 10:18 am | Leave a Comment »
My Red was out last week shooting up-and-coming New Zealand hip-hop artist Maitreya‘s new music video, “Lotaluv”. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make the shoot (DPed by Roman Baska of Salon Films and directed and produced by Digger T Mesch and his Dig Deep Entertainment). But looks like they did some great work, with my [...]
A Professional Editor and Post-guy’s Postive Take on Working With Red Footage
Posted in Indie filmmaking, Red Camera, blogs, film editing, high-definition, post-production on Thursday, 17 July 2008, 8:53 am | 1 Comment »
Check out this good and thoughtful post by Mr. Vix on his experience doing post-production and editing of Red footage from the Blind Generation music video shot on my Red #1304.
Blogging Pioneer Stops Blogging: Cites Pissiness of Crowds
Posted in Web 2.0, blogs, wisdom of crowds on Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 9:38 am | Leave a Comment »
Jason Calacanis, who rose to fame on his blog (and blog company) has stopped blogging. He’s now sending out an e-mail missive to a select few. As he explains it in his first missive: Comments on blogs inevitably implode, and we all accept it> under the belief that “open is better!” Open is not better. [...]
Where’s the Beef? Web 2.0 Emerging as Powerful Tool for Protestors
Posted in Korea, Web 2.0, article, blogs, citizen journalism on Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 2:53 pm | Leave a Comment »
Check out this interesting article in today’s International Herald Tribune, on how a protest (against import to South Korea of perceived un-safe U.S. beef) initially ignored by traditional media, snowballed after being covered by citizen journalists on Web 2.0 sites. This article dovetails with another article on Wired (“Media Death March: Newspaper Ads Tumble”) reporting [...]
Two Reasons To NOT choose WordPress for blogging in Asia
Posted in Great Firewall of China, SLA, SaaS, Web 2.0, WordPress.com, blogs on Sunday, 11 May 2008, 3:31 pm | 2 Comments »
[UPDATE 17:45 HK time, 11 May: Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic Inc., the company behind WordPress.com, just wrote a comment to my post here that the down-time of a few hours ago was due to a fire in a data center. This downtime in the middle of the day in Asia for long periods of [...]









