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May 7, 2007
Monday Morning Coffee Reads
Slowly but surely moving into summer mode. I'm planning to make a serious dent in writing the book this summer and hoping to get back in the habit of exercising frequently, which may mean a little less blog time. But here's a quick tour of my morning blog and newspaper reading:
- Via CCC: I've been meaning to write a longer blog entry on MoveOn's Video Vets Project. The documentary project features interviews with Iraq vets and their families about their views on the war in Iraq. Hoping to get a chance to write something longer about this project later, but for now, Sam's blog entry on VideoVets is worth checking out.
- Pretty much everyone has pointed to this article on YouTube's decision to share revenue with some its most prominent videobloggers, including lonelygirl15. There's lots of good debate out there about this decision, including the observation that it creates a kind of "YouTube elite."
- Clancy mentions FitDay, a cool resource for tracking your carbohydrate, fat, and protein intake. I've gained a little weight this year, in part because I'm not walking nearly as much as I was in DC last year, so I'm trying to find ways of encouraging myself to lose a little weight.
- Anne Thompson has a nice column about the effects of blogging on film coverage. Lots of good stuff here, including a discussion on how bloggers often speed up the celebrity buzz machine. Thompson also notes the ways in which studios have learned to "play" fan bloggers by using them for advance publicity for their films.
- Manohla Dargis has an interesting article on the modern blockbuster written in anticipation for some superhero movie that came out last weekend. Rumor has it the film even did pretty well at the box office, countering some of those "moviegoing is dead" stories we've been hearing.
- Interesting article on the continued evolution of the super-small screen. While Hollywood has begun to embrace the mobile screen, apparently advertisers are lagging. But isn't the super-small screen really just a place for advertising content on larger screens elsewhere, a way of directing our attention to certain franchise narratives?
- Interesting LA Times article on GreenTeaGirlie, the latest YouTube celebrity. Her meteoric rise to popularity has left many YouTube viewers suspecting that GTG might be a marketing hoax of some kind.
Posted by chuck at May 7, 2007 12:04 PM
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