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Links - AP is dead

Associated Press is killed by bloggers and aggregation. This is a huge story. The world of journalism is changing fast. Where before, the world's journalists wrote stories that were syndcated worldwide by AP but they're now written for free by bloggers (example of the free model?) and also aggregated by sites like Google News, Topix, Techmeme  - LINK

Sexist and morally conflicting TV commercial

Posting too much traditional work recently but couldn't not host this conundrum and wonder how it would be received if aired here in UK?

'On the surface, it would look like the ad is empowering women. But in the end, it's I think a pretty sexist message. "Stop depending on your husband, because he's going to leave you for someone prettier and younger." It preys on women's insecurities while also admonishing them for being financially ignorant.' More damning evidence here - all via the adfreak blog.

Sony Walkman Commercial

Don't know what to say about this new Sony Walkman commercial but here it is for your viewing pleasure.

Links - Death of Cinema

After Peter Greenaway's comments on the present state of cinema at the Pusan Film Festival.  Here's a series of relevant links regarding the present state of flux in cinema starting with various tangential links. All hopefully food for thought.

Here's the original reports on Peter Greenaway's feelings on the state of cinema. The Variety and Independent articles.

FREE REVENUE MODEL
Here's a series of links referring to the Free Revenue Model.
Mike Masnick discusses basic model here and the grand unified theory on the economics of Free.
Here's Free Music Models and arguments to open up content to combat piracy.

Here's Hollywood attitudes to piracy and downloads.

Here's the slow death of DVD rentals and Netflix and the appearence of DVD kiosks.

Director/writer/actor Ed Burns new movie is premiering on itunes.

THE CONVERGENCE OF TV & NET
Fusion of net and TV is coming technologically here and here. What will be the social effects?

NICHE CINEMA & AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
Local audiences decides what is on a single screen in multiplex cinema - Theatrical-on-demand system
and the future of niche cinema here with the whole cinema experience rethought here.

Hollywood is disrupted - It's no longer the epicentre of creative culture against the internet.

Lastly , professionally generated content competing against user generated content. It's the case for all the old forms of distribution.

Anyone care to comment or please email me damiano at rsafilms dot co dot uk

Links - Spot the PC, virtual worlds, experience and the shrinking world

More signs of the slow declining influence of TV. If teens are not watching TV what are they doing? - "eMarketer estimates that 24% of the 34.3 million child and teen (3-to-18) Internet users in the US will use virtual worlds on at least a monthly basis in 2007. By 2011, 53% of them will be going virtual."

Memory and storage in electronics is shrinking further and faster and will use a fraction of the power of present memory. University of Arizona electronic engineering dept have developed nano-ionic memory. This new type of memory technology could lead to thumb drives or digital-camera memory cards that store a terabyte of information - 1000 GB -more than most hard drives hold today. The first examples of the new technology, which could also slash energy consumption by more than 99 percent, could be in our hands within 18 months. What will be the social effect of so cheap, so abundant, so small, so fast memory on us all? More people filming, storing, producing UGC? Storing your whole visual life in your pocket from the moment you first were given a mobilephone?

This great blog post from Caslon Analytics gives you quick and concise facts and stats on blogs - How many blogs? Active and dead?  Demos? Second largest blogging country after USA is Brazil- Interesting. - LINK

It's the EXPERIENCE not service or the product that matters. Peter Merholz slideshow lecture from Adaptivepath. via Vincent Thome's blog.

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Indian Musical Condom Commercial

...never forget me, I am Nirodh, I am the condom friend ever useful to you.... From Nrityanjali Academy, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. Genius piece of content and will hopefully save lives.

Renault 'Ballet' TV commercial

A ballet demolition derby of Renault's fleet of new cars. A welcome change to the usual car advertising that I think could have been much more spectacular and imaginative. Here's the making of web video.