In the movie industry, even the writers use Macs

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Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience

Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Yesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were whini ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize that going to the movies is a social experience. It's not just about the content (though, that is important), but the overall experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go -- even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that story pointed to an article in China noting that this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done. After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience, putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.

Gizza job, virus writers ask AV industry

Gizza job, virus writers ask AV industry 09/10/2004 01:02 PM
Hidden message in latest MyDoom worm

Macs in action: hurricanes, movie
effects, DVDs

Macs in action: hurricanes, movie
effects, DVDs 03/20/2003 12:59 PM
Apple has updated its Pro section with three new articles on how Macs are being used to track hurricanes, create visual effects for movies, and author specialized DVDs...

Printing industry eyeing new Macs

Printing industry eyeing new Macs 10/29/2003 11:27 AM
For the first time this century, the printing industry is optimistic about the future. A report by TrendWatch Graphic Arts notes that 39 percent of all print and prepress firms expect excellent conditions in 2004, up from 13 percent in Spring 2003. The report, which is summarized on the Electronic Publishing website, notes that the number one planned investment for 56 percent of printing and prepress companies is new Macintosh workstations, up from 18 percent in Spring 2003.

Movie Industry Wins DVD Copying Suit

Movie Industry Wins DVD Copying Suit 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

film ends up on net, movie industry
shocked!

film ends up on net, movie industry
shocked! 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
i have friends that haven't watched a film in the past 3 years that didn't have text scrolling across the bottom

Movie industry group picks Glickman

Movie industry group picks Glickman 07/02/2004 04:45 AM
Boston Globe Jul 2 2004 8:35AM GMT

Movie industry settles DVD chips case

Movie industry settles DVD chips case 04/18/2005 02:29 AM
Victory for MPAA

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying (AP)

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying (AP) 02/13/2004 09:10 PM
AP - A film industry group that oversees copy protection technology of movie DVDs filed a patent infringement lawsuit Friday against 321 Studios Inc., the maker of popular DVD-copying programs.

Movie industry fights Internet DVD
piracy

Movie industry fights Internet DVD
piracy 04/13/2004 11:32 PM
ABC Online Apr 14 2004 3:46AM GMT

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying

Movie Industry Group Sues Over DVD
Copying 02/13/2004 11:47 PM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 14 2004 4:05AM GMT

Movie industry group backs off DVD
encryption lawsuit

Movie industry group backs off DVD
encryption lawsuit 01/23/2004 08:44 PM
SiliconValley.com Jan 23 2004 11:29PM GMT

Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record
Takings

Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record
Takings 07/06/2004 04:47 PM

Take aim at Internet movie piracy before
it's too late, film industry told

Take aim at Internet movie piracy before
it's too late, film industry told 04/21/2004 08:56 AM
Vancouver Sun Apr 21 2004 1:19PM GMT

Independent Writers of Chicago (IWOC)
offers new online directory to help
businesses find freelance writers

Independent Writers of Chicago (IWOC)
offers new online directory to help
businesses find freelance writers 07/21/2004 02:45 AM
Free searches of database of professional writers specializing in your field; post a writing job for no charge. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

AMC and Loews to Merge as Consolidation
Continues, Technology Company Magicweb
has a Solution that will Invigorate the
Movie Industry

AMC and Loews to Merge as Consolidation
Continues, Technology Company Magicweb
has a Solution that will Invigorate the
Movie Industry 06/24/2005 03:14 PM
Magicweb, Inc. (OTC:MGWB) Under pressure from piracy and the illegal copying of content, the online media and entertainment industries are being reinvigorated by new drivers including the online distribution of films and music. [PRWEB Jun 24, 2005]

Recent HomelandDefenseStocks.com Online
Investor and Industry Conference
Provides Investors and Industry With

Recent HomelandDefenseStocks.com Online
Investor and Industry Conference
Provides Investors and Industry With 04/14/2005 04:02 PM
Market Wire Apr 14 2005 7:58PM GMT

Hollywood and the music industry face
off against the heavy hitters of the
high-tech industry in a Supreme Cou

Hollywood and the music industry face
off against the heavy hitters of the
high-tech industry in a Supreme Cou 03/27/2005 03:49 PM
Baku Today Mar 27 2005 5:57PM GMT

Dr. Joe Webb to Conduct Printing
Industry Economic Outlook Webinar for
WhatTheyThink.com Subscribers and the
Industry, Sponsored by EFI

Dr. Joe Webb to Conduct Printing
Industry Economic Outlook Webinar for
WhatTheyThink.com Subscribers and the
Industry, Sponsored by EFI 06/08/2004 02:59 AM
Printing industry forecaster and commentator Dr. Joe Webb will speak at a printing industry economic webinar sponsored by EFI (NASDAQ: EFII) on June 23rd from 2:00 to 3:00 pm EDT; it is free to the industry. Signup form is at http://members.whattheythink.com/home/webinar.cfm [PRWEB Jun 8, 2004]

MWH Soft Ships Third Generation of
Industry-Preferred InfoWater Suite for
Power ArcGIS Users in the Global
Waterworks Industry

MWH Soft Ships Third Generation of
Industry-Preferred InfoWater Suite for
Power ArcGIS Users in the Global
Waterworks Industry 09/26/2004 03:49 AM
Reinforcing its vanguard position in water resources applications software, MWH Soft, Inc., today announced the worldwide availability of InfoWater® Generation V3 for ArcGIS® (ESRI, Redlands, CA). [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]

Computer industry to entertainment
industry: we lied (right on!)

Computer industry to entertainment
industry: we lied (right on!) 09/22/2004 02:18 AM
Cory Doctorow: This amazing open letter to the entertainment industry, signed by the computer industry, is a nigh-perfect expression of what constitutes a successful approach to Internet technology. And it made me laugh my ass off.

We lied to you. In the golden 80s and 90s we told you micropayments and content protection would work; that you would be able to charge minuscule amounts of money whenever someone listened to your music or watched your movie. We told you untruths which we well knew would never work - after all, we would've never used them ourselves. Instead, we wrote things like Kazaa and Gnutella, and all other evil P2P applications to get the stuff free.

We told you these things so that you would finance the things we really wanted to build, not the things that you wanted to be built. We knew all along that DRM schemes do not work, and we knew that whatever we create can be broken by us. We don't care anymore, because your money made us bigger than you.

Look at us: every year, we churn out more computer games than your entire industry is worth. You know how we do it? We like our customers. We don't treat them like potential criminals, and try to make our products do less. We invent new things like online role-playing -games, where the money does not come from duplication of bits (which cannot be stopped, regardless of your DRM scheme) but from providing experiences that the people want.

We saw that you were old and weak. So we took advantage of it: told you things that you wanted to hear so we could kick you in the head in twenty years. Some of us told you that the future is going to be interactive - what did you do? You started to think how to make interactive movies (CD-I, anyone?), which is not what it really means, while we wrote games and tried to understand the new mediums, not how to bolt it on onto old things.

We lied to you. And we apologize for that, but it was for the greater good. So we're not the least bit sorry.

Signed: The Computer Industry

Link (via Blackbeltjones)

Where Have All The Writers Gone?

Where Have All The Writers Gone? 07/30/2004 11:52 AM

Over the years, I've learned a big secret about building content-based Web sites. By "content based," I mean sites that are updated frequently and are meant to communicate continuing information about a topic. Not brochureware, but sites like blogs, or a site for your church, or your school, or your organization.

This big secret is the single most important thing you can do for your Web site. It is the absolute make-or-break characteristic of successful Web sites. Without this, you really don't have much. With it, it doesn't matter how limited your resources are, you can still have a great Web presence and a successful site.

Are you ready? Here it is: the big secret to a great Web site is....

Find people who like to write. And can write well.

I always look at Web sites as a three-legged stool. Leg #1 is the asthetics and design. Leg #2 is the functionality and programming. And Leg #3 is the content. But in a weird twist of physics, the stool can put a LOT more weight on Leg #3 than Legs #1 or #2.

Too many times I see Web sites being put together with no thought for the content that's going to go in them. At the initial meeting, there are designers and programmers and project managers, but rarely do you find a writer. We're so concerned with building the swimming pool that we often forget the water.

We had an intern in here this summer. She had just graduated with a degree in Business Communications and was kind of wondering what to do with it. I encouraged her to concentrate on writing for the Web. There's a huge hole in most organizations of people who can put finger to keyboard and express an idea.

More importantly, there's a lack of people who want to do this. And who don't just do it when they have to, but who pro-actively think of things they can write about and ideas they can communicate. We need people who put themselves in the position of a visitor to the site and think, "If I was visiting this site, what would I want to know..." and then compose that information.

It's funny when you think of all the time that we put into asking that same question to refine our usability. We ask outselves that question to make sure our menus are correctly ordered and the title of the page is right and everything else is perfectly suited to get the user to that information...then we put very little time into actually writing the information. Someone else will do that, of course, because we're the geeks. So long as the page executes and renders properly, what's actually in the page isn't our problem.

How many times have you heard of an organization that wants to put up a Web site so they go looking for computer geeks — people who know how to build Web sites? It happens with churches all the time. Lemme tell you — the first people you should look for when trying to build a site are writing geeks — people who know how to write, who are passionate about writing, and who will actually produce some text.

With all the hosted platforms out there today, you can get a great site with very, very little need for technical resources. Eighty percent of organizations would do perfectly well with a TypePad account or a copy of Radio, in fact. But instead we get some computer geeks involved, sink money and time into hosting accounts and platforms and programming until we have a technically awesome Web site.

And for what? A "Welcome to our site..." message, About Us, Contact Us...and what else? We're all dressed up with no place to go. We're a pro-wrestler at a spelling bee.

This then is a call for the writers. Where have you gone? We have enough programmers. We have enough designers. We have enough project managers. We need some writers. If you start your Web site project with with a group of good writers, you have 90% of the ingredients for a top-notch Web site.

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Writers wanted

Writers wanted 11/14/2003 01:41 PM
We're looking for a few new freelance writers -- and not just for NewsForge but also for IT Manager's Journal, DevChannel, and Linux.com. We pay for most material, but not all, and to get our top rates you must be a proven professional with previous publication credits.

War Driving for Writers

War Driving for Writers 06/30/2004 02:47 PM
War Driving for Writers, whereupon the denizens of the Comudev literary agency review places in Silicon Valley suitable for a wifi'd writer to plonk his arse. RSS Feed. Meanwhile, it occurs to me that the biggest change to be brought...

Win five of the latest DVD re-writers

Win five of the latest DVD re-writers 12/27/2004 06:44 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 27 2004 9:08AM GMT

Writers Forge

Writers Forge 01/26/2004 09:56 PM
Catalan 0.2.0 Released

Writers wanted...

Writers wanted... 09/09/2004 11:10 AM
From Micah: Personal Democracy Forum, a new online resource focusing on the intersection of technology and politics, is seeking contributors for its website, blog and newsletter. We're looking for seasoned journalists versed, ideally, in both the political and technology industries who are interested in covering a wide range of subjects, including: how the Internet is moving votes, money and perceptions; the digital political industry; tools and techniques of clued-in campaigns; and emergent technology-enabled democracy. Political or business journalism background a plus but not required. We're looking for 800- to 1500-word features as well as shorter blog entries on ongoing beats....

SF writers on the future

SF writers on the future 09/12/2004 05:30 AM
Cory Doctorow: Former BB Guestblogger John Shirley interviewed me, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling and Ken Wharton, as science fiction writers, about the future. It's just showed up on Locus's website:

Cory Doctorow doubts the efficacy of big control and again sees information as the key: "The Stasi — the East German version of the KGB — had detailed files on virtually every resident of East Germany, yet somehow managed to miss the fact that the Berlin Wall was about to come down until it was already in rubble. Tell me again how a centralized government makes us more secure? September 11th wasn't a failure to gather enough intelligence: it was a failure to correctly interpret the intelligence in hand. There was too much irrelevant data, too much noise. Gathering orders of magnitude MORE noise just puts that needle into a much bigger haystack, while imposing high social costs. Fingerprinting visitors to the US and jailing foreign journalists for not understanding the impossibly baroque new visa regs makes America less secure (by encouraging people to lie about the purposes of their visit and by chasing honest people out of the country), not more."

Bruce Sterling speculates that big global government might take new shapes: "I had a brainstorm about this very problem recently. What if there were two global systems of governance, and they weren't based on control of the landscape? Suppose they interpenetrated and competed everywhere, sort of like Tory and Labour, or Coke and Pepsi. I'm kind of liking this European 'Acquis' model where there is scarcely any visible 'governing' going on, and everything is accomplished on the levels of invisible infrastructure, like highway regulations and currency reform."

Link (Thanks, John!)

All Hail the Writers

All Hail the Writers 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
Spent the past few days contributing a chapter for a forthcoming book on Emergent Democracy. My new mantra: Its time to put the demo back in democracy. One link at a time. Its been refreshing to focus on a long...

Successful writers take time to look it
up

Successful writers take time to look it
up 11/06/2003 07:24 PM
For example, if you search Google for "writing resources" -- that is, if you use the online search engine available at http://www.google.com to find those two ...

Virus writers in the wild

Virus writers in the wild 04/28/2004 10:29 AM

HP DVD writers aim to play nice

HP DVD writers aim to play nice 07/20/2004 09:23 PM
The company says its new double-layer burners are largely free of compatibility problems.

have the TMN writers create their own
ending

have the TMN writers create their own
ending 11/02/2003 01:02 AM
The Man Who Was Hook .. Morning News Piece

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Virus Writers Stuck In A Rut?

Virus Writers Stuck In A Rut? 11/03/2003 12:21 PM
Anti-virus companies love to get people worked up into a lather about all the virus threats out there, because it helps them sell more product. So, it wasn't much of a surprise that, following the "big" virus and trojan horse problems in August, the anti-virus "experts" started warning that this was just a prelude to something worse, and that we should expect even more virus problems as soon as the current viruses died out. While it is good to keep users vigilant about virus things, these announcements served more to make people ignore the real problem: the anti-virus companies failed. Of course, you don't hear them speaking up now about the fact that their original predictions of "the next wave" of viruses immediately following the last wave appears not to have come true. Especially with the SoBig virus, we were told that the next version was supposed to appear in September sometime, but that never happened. Of course, it's good when we don't have virus outbreaks - and I have no doubt that they will come again - but once again we have a situation where the anti-virus folks seemed to hype things up beyond necessary.

Newspaper Writers on the Election

Newspaper Writers on the Election 02/01/2005 08:32 PM
In a small room in Stanford’s history building, a small panel discusses media coverage of the 2004 election. The guests…

Writers settle with databases

Writers settle with databases 03/30/2005 11:39 AM
globetechnology.com Mar 30 2005 3:21PM GMT

Tech-writers - A Necessary Evil

Tech-writers - A Necessary Evil 08/02/2004 08:37 PM
WebDevInfo Aug 3 2004 0:44AM GMT

Six writers vie for Orange prize

Six writers vie for Orange prize 04/18/2005 12:29 AM
The shortlist of six female writers competing for the 10th Orange Prize for Fiction is announced.

6 8-speed DVD writers on test

6 8-speed DVD writers on test 04/29/2004 06:21 AM

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DVDCCA Surrenders in Bunner DVD
Descrambling Case

DVDCCA Surrenders in Bunner DVD
Descrambling Case 01/22/2004 07:32 PM
Electronic Frontier Foundations Jan 22 2004 11:47PM GMT

Woosh Goes The Credibility

Woosh Goes The Credibility 06/14/2004 12:37 AM
We think we've finally found why every computer in every film ever made features a G5 and PowerBook: the writers use 'em. Macs can be found all over Hollywood. "It may be a bit more expensive... but you can't beat Apple for ease of use and an elegant human interface." By Computerworld New Zealand (via MyAppleMenu)

Woosh Order with IPWireless Triples its
3G UMTS TDD Network

Woosh Order with IPWireless Triples its
3G UMTS TDD Network 04/17/2005 07:03 PM
3G Apr 17 2005 8:38PM GMT

Woosh Wireless drops its high-speed
internet price

Woosh Wireless drops its high-speed
internet price 05/04/2004 02:02 PM
The New Zealand Herald May 4 2004 5:59PM GMT

ANDREW 1.1.1

ANDREW 1.1.1 01/03/2005 07:56 AM
A bash script to create Matroska or Ogg Media files from DVDs.

All About Andrew W.K

All About Andrew W.K 09/10/2004 11:55 PM
G4 Tech TV Sep 11 2004 2:50AM GMT

"Henckler Andrew "

"Henckler Andrew " 05/20/2004 03:58 AM

Andrew Sullivan says it

Andrew Sullivan says it 11/14/2003 06:59 AM
Randy Andy Sullivan .. obsessing

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Andrew Keplinger 2.15

Andrew Keplinger 2.15 07/23/2004 11:31 AM
Pilot your starship, the Hypraxis, into battle, defeat their hordes and destroy the Gygon cyborg leader, Bauss.

"Andrew Sullivan"

"Andrew Sullivan" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

The Andrew Sullivan of Email

The Andrew Sullivan of Email 04/12/2004 12:51 PM
Everyone I know complains that they can't keep up with their email and that responding to it takes too much...

ANDREW 1.1.3 (Default branch)

ANDREW 1.1.3 (Default branch) 06/22/2005 02:25 AM
ANDREW's Not a DVD Ripping and Encoding Wizard, but an interactive wrapper to simplify the use of oggenc, mencoder, and mkv/ogmmerge to create, from a DVD, one or more Matroska or Ogg Media files containing an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video track, encoded using the FFmpeg libavcodec or the XviD codec, one or more AC-3 or Vorbis audio tracks, and a chapters index.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
The program was updated to be compatible with MPlayer 1.0pre7. The way of naming Matroska and Ogg Media files was changed. Localization in Spanish was added.

andrew anker joins 6A

andrew anker joins 6A 07/15/2004 12:00 PM
anybody who's spent time in PA and NYC is ok with me

IMG Interviews Andrew Welch

IMG Interviews Andrew Welch 11/17/2003 05:28 PM
It's been over a decade since Andrew Welch created Ambrosia Software. By Tuncer Deniz (Inside Mac Games via MyAppleMenu)

"In the Name of Science" by Andrew
Goliszek

"In the Name of Science" by Andrew
Goliszek 01/09/2004 10:11 PM
From the Tuskegee study to Josef Mengele, from soldiers forced to march into A-bomb clouds to the CIA's secret LSD trials, a biologist provides a frightening tour of the 20th century's most evil experiments.

Andrew Grumet's Webl0g

Andrew Grumet's Webl0g 04/19/2004 04:19 AM
Andrew Grumet's Weblog .. Andrew .. Grumet

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"reading Andrew Sullivan"

"reading Andrew Sullivan" 04/20/2004 10:00 AM

Mena's Corner: Andrew at Six Apart

Mena's Corner: Andrew at Six Apart 07/15/2004 10:08 AM
Andrew Anker joins Six Apart .. Mena's Corner .. several

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Andrew Stopford's the man for Rotor
latte

Andrew Stopford's the man for Rotor
latte 12/15/2003 11:44 PM
Andrew Stopford wrote a book on PHP on Windows, but he's addicted to Rotor latte nowadays. He's sipping on hot .NET and CLR expresso on his blog. I read it to find out what's happening in the .NET world. Great brewing, Andrew!

Christopher Andrew Phillips, hacker?

Christopher Andrew Phillips, hacker? 03/14/2003 05:07 PM
Chris topher Andrew Phillips , the University of Texas at Austin student accused of "hacking" the school's computer system, has turned himself in. But reading about his method makes me wonder if this really is hacking and/or illegal...

Andrew Lees Keynote Transcript

Andrew Lees Keynote Transcript 05/26/2004 04:32 PM
Doing More With Less
Remarks by Andrew Lees, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Server and Tools Marketing at Microsoft Tech·Ed 2004

Andrew Bird's current favorites

Andrew Bird's current favorites 04/18/2005 06:56 PM
A top-five list from violinist, whistler and songsmith extraordinaire Andrew Bird.

"what political issue does Andrew
Sullivan bring up"

"what political issue does Andrew
Sullivan bring up" 03/25/2005 06:44 AM

"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" by
Andrew Sean Greer

"The Confessions of Max Tivoli" by
Andrew Sean Greer 03/08/2004 11:07 PM
A man ages backward across the decades, and the same girl keeps eluding him and breaking his heart, in a breathtaking love story that's also the season's literary breakthrough.

"fisking of Andrew Sullivan's call for
more gas taxes"

"fisking of Andrew Sullivan's call for
more gas taxes" 04/20/2004 03:29 PM

Father Andrew Greeley: Is U.S. like
Germany of the '30s? 6/12

Father Andrew Greeley: Is U.S. like
Germany of the '30s? 6/12 06/12/2004 04:45 AM
Click .. Link:

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John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Andrew Anker
Joins Six Apart

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Andrew Anker
Joins Six Apart 06/07/2004 04:11 AM
Andrew Anker joins Six Apart .. Battelle reports

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Andrew Corporation Elected to 3G
Americas' Board of Governors

Andrew Corporation Elected to 3G
Americas' Board of Governors 04/07/2005 05:43 AM
3G Apr 7 2005 9:20AM GMT

Instrinsyc Software International names
Andrew Morden as CFO

Instrinsyc Software International names
Andrew Morden as CFO 09/04/2004 12:25 PM
Canadian Press Sep 4 2004 4:15PM GMT

In the movie industry, even the writers use Macs