No stupid breaks; Advance the storyline; Don’t cancel the show without an ending; Commit to an end time for the first storyline; Don’t have cliffhangers season to season; Don’t name the show; Don’t screw with the timeslot; Find a new storyline …
Dave Winer: “…next step … is the professional media fully embracing the new media, no longer see it as a threat to their continued employment. Seeing amateur public writing, the former audience who is no longer silent…”
… Jericho was canceled on short notice recently, leaving … fans scrambling to try to save it. “Scramble” might be the wrong word, because in fact it’s a delightfully well-coordinated effort, complete with daily missions and 14,684 pounds of nuts
BBC: “More than a third of UK bloggers risk the sack by posting derogatory or damaging details about their workplace, boss or colleagues, a survey claims.”
Jason Mittell on the Lost Season Finale: “This is a great example of the operational aesthetic, … part of the pleasure and engagement with a program is in examining the gears of the storytelling machinery, not just the story itself.”
“… on the one hand, the digitisation of content and provision of information and, on the other, interactivity and opportunities for expression. Some have seen these as in binary opposition. The truth is that they are inexorably merging.”
