“Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found.” (It’s worth noting that these were MySpace blogs…) (tags: myspaceblogsocialnetworking)
For sfx junkies, a fascinating showreel from the fx people behind Cloverfield showing exactly how green-screens were used to composit the ruins of New York into most scenes. [Via](tags: cloverfieldspecialeffectssfxfilm)
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have released their latest album in a variety of formats, in digital and physical form, with a core of nine tracks being released as DRM mp3 files, under a creative commons license! (tags: drmmp3musiccreativecommons)
“Unless artists become a large aggregator of other artist’s works, the long tail offers no path out of the quiet doldrums of minuscule sales. … One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans.” (The critical mass monetization of fandom?) (tags: 1000truefanslongtailfandommarketingweb2.0socialnetworking)
Apparently Buffy (yes, the Vampire Slayer) “experimenting” with another girl in the comic-book continuation of Joss Whedon’s series ranks a mention in the New York Times. (tags: buffygendersexualitycomics)
