dcinput daily for Wed 15th March, 2006
The Thessaloniki International Documentary Fest
ival opened its doors last Friday and runs until next Sunday. Its just reminded me of how much I am in need of a sunny holiday.
I’ve got a school reunion comming up pretty soon. Scarry stuff. Lots of emails flying around from people that I haven’t seen in a decade. Rumours of husbands or wives and babies and pregnancies. Some I know to be true and others not. Good to see that a decade apart hasn’t stoped the wind ups.
TechCrunch: Amazon launches grid service web storage. It is a storage service backend for developers that offers “a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs”. Looks like you could store a 2K feature film for around $300 a month (not including the one off transfer fee). Thats pretty reasonable. I bet they have pretty big capacity. It’ll never happen though.
Sponsor a monkey. I happen to know this one and he’s top notch.
Reuters: “Google Book Search would allow publishers to set the prices for their books and make them available through a reader’s Web browser.”
As a school project C.Ronson came up with the ipod hoodie. He’s already received over 15 000 orders and is in talks with various places in China to get them made. At £15 a go thats a nice little earner. I want one.
Reuters: “Movie theater owners are considering asking federal authorities for permission to jam cell phone reception in an attempt to stop annoying conversations during films”. I favour the introdction of a cinema vigilante / neighbourhood watch approach - make it legal for other cinema goers to slap the loud mouths.
New Scary Movie trailer on YouTube. Funny.
Randolph J. May: “Adoption of a broad Net neutrality prohibition will impose monopoly-era public-utility-style regulation on new broadband services in an era characterized by competition”. Randolph takes the other side of the argument believing government net neutrality to be a bad idea in the long run.
Marguerite Reardon: “The broader discussion was what exactly Net neutrality means and whether legislators are discussing a solution to a problem that doesn’t yet exist”. In the same article Blair Levin analyst for Stifel: “I am hopelessly confused about Net neutrality”. At least I’m not the only one.
Nice little piece by Cyndi Greening of Cinematical about blogging in the film industry. She’s at SXSW…it looks like fun.
I’m really enjoying my new style of blogging. It’s really just the start of things at the minute. I’m usually very busy at work during the day and so only really have time to cut and paste a few quotes from things I find interesting in my world and link to them. I’m hoping to also get better at these bits, the bits where I just type and put accross some of my ideas about stuff. You know the more personal bits. I’m not that good at those yet and bound to suck for a while but you can always read somebody else’s blog.
Been thinking about Dave stoping blogging and I think I understand his thinking, in as much as you can understand someone you’ve never met or talked to…hey I’m just a fan.
Thought that I’d mention for future reference that I reserve the right to stop this blog at anytime for whatever reason and without warning (though I’d probably wave).