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May 1, 2007
Lazy Tuesday Links
Today's the last day of class, which means I'm looking for any excuse not to grade papers. Here's how I've been procrastinating this afternoon:
- Via Lost Remote, news that The Washington Post has acquired Jeff Jarvis's PrezVid videoblog.
- Agnes Varnum has a column (also posted at indieWIRE) on the recent rush of "green" docs. As she points out, An Inconvenient Truth seemed to come out of nowhere last year, but since then, we seem to have reached a "tipping point" on climate change, something reflected in the lineups at Full Frame and other documentary fests.
- One of the topics I addressed at MIT 5 was the "Seven Minute Sopranos" vid (and the similar "5 Second Movies" series). Now Sony has announced its own series of "minisodes," which will take vintage TV shows, such as TJ Hooker and Charlie's Angels and crunch them down to 3.5 minutes or less. I'm not terribly convinced that there will be a large audience for this kind of mashup kitscsh; after all, most mashups have relatively small audiences.
- On a related note, Liz Losh points to some new Colbert Nation mashup fun as well as Discovery Channel's You Spoof, which invites viewers to mashup their content.
- Finally, via Mike, the latest mashup of action movies and children's entertainment, Pulp Muppets.
Posted by chuck at May 1, 2007 3:13 PM
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Comments
Thanks for the comment on my blog! I've read your Pedagogy article and really enjoyed it.
Posted by: Michael Faris at May 2, 2007 3:08 PM
Thanks! Nice to know that people are reading the Pedagogy piece. I learned a lot from writing it.
Posted by: Chuck at May 2, 2007 3:22 PM