dcinput daily for Fri 12th Jan, 2007
Andrew Orlowski’s take on the Net Neutrality saga is very interesting.
Scott Kirsner: “In a world where channels are increasingly irrelevant, content producers need to pay attention to ways to build a loyal following, by building mailing lists, maintaining RSS feeds and blogs, or getting viewers to “subscribe” in some other way to a continuing string of videos”.
Hugh MacLeod’s is collecting and publishing manifestos. Great idea. I like the latest one - the social customer manifesto. Good ideas need to be spread around. He is also organising a day out at the Tate in the hope that it might drag people away from their screens and inject a bit of culture into our web heads, init.
David Sacks seems like a pretty interesting entrepreneur. His new project called Geni will attempt to create a family tree of the whole world.
Sundance’s online efforts are ramping up. I attended a screening in Second Life only a few days ago which was certainly interesting and they are to start selling short films on iTunes“. It’s really exciting to see film makers starting to embrace the web and start to experiement. In the comming years independant film making is going to explode.
Wired: “The festival seems eager to come to you. A push to make the influential event accessible to the masses is under way, with a series of initiatives designed to spread the gospel of Sundance-branded independent film around the world”.