Very Independent Producers is Ted Hope (The Brothers McMullen, Safe, The Ice Storm) and Christine Vachon (I’m Not There, Storytelling, Velvet Goldmine, Boys Don’t Cry) discussing a wide-range of topics and anecdotes on producing independent film.
Errol Morris discusses Standard Operating Procedure. David Edelstein review. Trailer:
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NPR’s war on Low Power FM: the laws of physics vs. politics
(tags: FCC networkPolitics NPR)

Forgot about this. The Bent Festival NYC is happening this weekend in NYC. Make has some highlights:
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Blu-ray: Do Consumers Care?
(tags: Blu-ray DVD HD video)

Wal-Mart learns a painful copyright lesson
(tags: Copyright)

BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites
(tags: Copyright filesharing MPAA P2P RIAA BitTorrent)

Games Google Plays: The Psychology of the Spectrum Auction
(tags: FCC google networkPolitics)

Some new Portishead in-studio video @ Current
Last.FM: visualization tools. CBS integrating it’s CBS Radio streams into Last.FM
Rethinking the music video, with Jakob Trollback

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A thought-provoking piece from Joel Johnson (Heh…no relation.) at Boing Boing gadgets. It really is only a matter of time before “little computers” are actually built-into monitors.
In Appledom, iTunes is the future, not AppleTV. AppleTV and other PC-based media centers only exist because no television manufacturer has figured out how to make a passable, [...]

Not to sound like a hippie, but some personal inspiration via Jim Coudal—
Working for months on some damn project that gets watered down and compromised and eats up your time and your soul until when you’re all done with it you realize you’re not proud of it and you don’t even want to show it [...]

DISH Network says some models of DVR can no longer be sold
RUH ROH. One of those is mine.
(tags: Tivo Dishnetwork patent.effects DVR)

New Jersey Constitution Requires Subpoena for Subscriber Information from ISP
(tags: networkPolitics Copyright)

BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus
(tags: Azureus bittorrent Comcast P2P)

Sony to launch online video service for PlayStation 3
(tags: video playstation sony VOD settops [...]

Some cool stuff in the next version of Flash, including a tweening/motion editor and 3D.

3G iPhone Rumor Watch:

Nike+ app for iPhone?
A KEYBOARD? Doubtful.

Hulu: showing progress? Beating projections. Interesting:
He also intimated that Hulu was investigating new technology in the HD realm, and a possible transition from the computer screen to the comparatively larger television screen. He declined to provide specifics, saying any expansion ideas are still in the brainstorming phase.
Some [...]

Bill Buxton’s Bad Ass CHI 2008 Keynote
(tags: design innovation hci ideas)

mkv2vob: Remux MKV x264/AC3 for PS3
(tags: Divx video tools ps3 reference tutorials mkv)

The Fall looks awesome.
Shepard Fairey does covers for 1984 and Animal Farm.
ColorToy is an online color-scheming tool.
Download Richard Serra’s Prisoner’s Dilemma (1974).

The Animation Show:
The Animation Show was started as an annual feature-length theatrical compilation of short films from around the world, exclusively curated by Mike Judge (Office Space, “Beavis and Butt-Head,” “King of the Hill”) [...]

Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
(tags: youtube video download mp4)

This Is Not a Test: Calibrate Your HDTV
(tags: HD reference)

Flash Media Encoder 2.5 Released, Adds H.264 Encoding
(tags: Flash H.264 video)

Ingmar Bergman week unveils events
(tags: Bergman film)

An excerpt. A little windy, but it’s pretty amazing somebody said this to a NAB audience.