Can social networks save the film industry?
I’ve only been on Facebook for about five weeks, and clearly still in the honeymoon period, but I found this O’Reily Radar post and analysis of FB’s growth a reason for optimism.
Day: December 8, 2008
Scott Macauley is on this issue more diligently than I can be. Check out his post on the Filmmaker Blog. He quotes from Peter Osnos on Today’s Zaman :
But the major point is that Google has now conceded, with a very large payment, that “information is not free.” This leads to an obvious, critical question: Why aren’t newspapers and magazines demanding payment for use of their stories on Google and other search engines? Why are they not getting a significant slice of the advertising revenues generated by use of their stories via Google?
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Tools Review Needed
I have been adding updates to the Tools column as I find them or you recommend them. What’s really lacking though are explanations of what these tools actually do AND how they apply to the Truly Free Film paradigm. I know we need that. But I am a bit swamped these days actually trying to make a few more films before I expire (being a lover of list I have always thought that number 100 we would be a nice threshold to cross — so I am only a little more than half way there). So can you help?
If you can’t do a review can you locate one and let us know where to find it?
How have you used these tools in your process?
We all have a lot to learn but we will learn it much faster if we share some information.
