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The Writers' Strike Chronicles BlogThe Writers' Strike Chronicles BlogOn November 5, 2007, for the first time in almost 20 years, members of the Writers Guild of America went on strike. This site serves to chronicle the events that followed and to give voice to the men and women -- not just the writers -- in the Indu Articles
Better Than Free
2008-02-07 09:19:00 In closing my interview with Ronald D. Moore from Battlestar Galactica, Moore voted for the printing press over the Internet. I've been predicating the queston of Internet v. Printing Press with the... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Free
WSC Show #90 - Interviews with Shawn Ryan and Ronald D. Moore
2008-02-07 09:05:00 powered by ODEO In today?s episode I speak to Shawn Ryan , creator of The Shield and executive producer of The Unit. Then I talk to Ronald D. Moore from Battlestar Galactica. Both recordings took... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Interviews , Show
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2008-02-07 07:00:00 Verizon Rejects Hollywood’s Call to Aid Piracy Fight - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog More often than not companies in similar positions have similar views. But when Hollywood asked the two big phone companies to help with its fight against piracy, they responded in opposite ways. AT&T, as we wrote, is talking about developing a system tha Waxy.org: Pirating the 2008 Oscars (Now with 6 Years of Data) Every year, the Academy tries to stop Oscar films from leaking online. And every year, they leak all the same. I've been tracking Oscar piracy since 2004, but I've decided to up the ante, releasing all the underlying data and extending it to 2003. Six yea Please pirate my Sundance film. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine Film piracy, the conventional wisdom goes, is a threat to the film industry at all levels. That's certainly the sense at the Sundance Film Festival, where both the festival and distributors invest heavily in anti-piracy measures, including undercover age... More About: Links
Kindle vs. Books
2008-02-07 03:24:00 OK...so y'all listening to my podcast know my shtick with my last question being a poll as to whether the Internet or the printing press is the more powerful technology. But it's still fun to throw... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Books , Kindle
WSC Show #89 - Interviews with Steve Leiva, Alan Kirschenbaum and the Mud B
2008-02-06 09:27:00 powered by ODEO In today?s episode, I speak to strike captain Steve Leiva and revisit with Alan Kirschenbaum at the picket line in front of CBS Radford studios. I?ll also receive a bouquet and have... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Interviews , Show
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2008-02-06 07:00:00 United Hollywood: Bowman: Negotiations Continue, Meeting This Weekend United Hollywood: Verrone: If We Lose That Solidarity, They Take Advantage of It Big Time LoveFilm Spreads the Love « NewTeeVee DVD rental company Lovefilm said Monday it?s buying Amazon.com Europe?s DVD rental business in the UK and Germany. Also under terms of the deal, Amazon Europe will become LoveFilm?s largest shareholder, with a roughly 30 percent stake that?s value FCC prods cable companies in tiff with indie programmers How bad has it gotten between the cable industry and independent TV programmers? On Friday the Federal Communications Commission ordered all cable companies to post on their Web sites the name, telephone number, and e-mail address of their indie programme Coolest Podcasting Studio In The World Da-yam! Who Will Control Advertising on the Web? - GigaOM Two bits of news ? Ringleader Digital snagging $6 million for its ad network, and Goowy being acquired by AOL ? started me thinking aga... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-05 07:00:00 WE OWE IT ALL TO THE HIPPIES Forget antiwar protests, Woodstock, even long hair. The real legacy of the sixties generation is the computer revolution Michael Russnow: The WGA Strike For Dummies: It Ain't Over 'til It's Over - Entertainment on The Huffington Post I'd like the Writers Guild strike to end. I'm tired of getting up earlier than I prefer to every morning to go picketing at CBS Television City in Hollywood most days of every week. Even though I don't have a job to immediately go back to, like most other Wired 13.08: We Are the Web The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people. Events - EngagementDebate ‘08 | Videoegg Engagement Debate '08 will bring together some of the most innovative media executives, digital marketers, and thought leaders in our industry to debate. TheStreet.com : News Corp.: No Interest in... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-04 07:00:00 Contract outlined in Hollywood writers strike - Los Angeles Times WGA AMPTP WGA, AMPTP Maybe Clear of Internet Hurdle « NewTeeVee LAist: The End Might Be Near for the Writers' Strike It's still in the outline phase, but a new contract has been drawn for striking writers, and may meet with approval as early as Friday. The new deal is said to including resolutions to fundamental concerns, like compensation for work done for and distr KNX - Reports Say Trickiest Issues Have Been Resolved LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Anticipation is growing, about a possible tentative agreement this week to end the Writers Guild strike that has crippled TV and film production for the past three months. And in the meantime, the Guild has announced reaching separate United Hollywood: Letter From the Presidents - State of Negotiations This was sent today by WGA Presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship to membership. Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt Micro... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-03 07:00:00 Lawmakers step in on writers strike Lawmakers began taking a more active role in the writers strike this week as a group of California Democrats led by the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee accused a pair network chiefs of dragging their feet. globeandmail.com: Hollywood writers' strike a blessing for Canada The prolonged Hollywood screenwriters strike is resulting in a bonanza of deals for Canadian broadcasters as big U.S. networks are snapping up Canadian shows in an effort to keep their programming schedules filled. CTV sold 13 episodes of a second show Lessig gives up on Free Culture | The Register Lawrence Lessig Lessig is moving on - to fight the good fight against "Corruption". The technology-leaning lawyer announced this last year, but has continued to discuss Wikipedia, the Creative Commons and the like. That is until yesterday, when he deliver Stanford's Lessig tackling even bigger battle Lawrence Lessig famously battled Mickey Mouse before t... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-02-02 07:00:00 MediaPost Publications - TitanTV Introduces Syndication Model For Videos - 02/01/2008 WEB CONTENT COMPANY TITANTV IS introducing a new syndication model with an assortment of professionally produced and original content videos, along with an embeddable video player for local TV affiliates' Web destinations. MediaPost Publications - Microsoft/Yahoo Would Dominate Online Display, Rival Google In Search - 02/01/2008 IN A DEAL THAT WOULD consolidate the Internet's No. 1 destination, Yahoo, and its fifth largest, MSN, Microsoft this morning made a bid to acquire Yahoo for a record-setting $44.6 billion. The deal, if completed, would mark the largest yet in the ongoing MediaPost Publications - Newspapers 4Q: NYT, Media General Bleeding Revs - 02/01/2008 TWO NEWSPAPER GROUPS REPORTED THEIR fourth-quarter results on Thursday. All were disappointing, heralding yet another round of bad news from the industry in general MediaPost Publications - Scripps: 4Q Revs Drop, But Healthy Cable Return... More About: Links
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2008-02-01 07:00:00 Internet Evolution - Tom Nolle - The Case for Reluctant DRM DRM may be critical in preserving the role of the Internet in delivering video content Oscar Has a Contingency Plan - New York Times A contingency plan that would include history, film clips and out-of-the-ordinary concepts for the 80th annual Academy Awards show is in the works, academy president Sid Ganis told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Here Comes Trouble: The Future of Free - GigaOM Imagine a world where Internet usage was billed the same way as telephone calls, where visiting a web site on the other side of the world costs more than visiting a web site hosted on the other side of town, and the bill that shows up each month reflects WGA Tables Pitch to Wall St. Analysts - 1/31/2008 5:42:00 AM - Multichannel News The striking Writers Guild of America has abruptly cancelled plans to meet next week with Wall Street analysts who follow CBS Corp., several published reports said Thursday. FT.com / World - Murdoch apolo... More About: Links
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2008-01-31 07:00:00 MediaPost Publications - U2 Manager McGuinness Calls On ISPs To Control Piracy - 01/30/2008 U2 manager Paul McGuinness has added his voice to those calling on Internet service providers to implement controversial anti-piracy measures, including filtering their networks and canceling the accounts of people who upload copyrighted music. In another MediaPost Publications - NBC Announces Mobile Web Sites For 2008 - 01/30/2008 NBC ON TUESDAY ANNOUNCED ITS full roster of 40 mobile Web sites for 2008, including 10 soon-to-be launched sites for shows such as "Saturday Night Live," "Last Call with Carson Daly," "Lipstick Jungle," and "American Gladiators." MediaPost Publications - Zucker: TV Biz Must Change, New Upfront, New Series - 01/30/2008 LAS VEGAS, NV -- NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker has made it clear during the last several months that the TV business needs to change in major ways--and not just because of the effects of the writers' strike. But... More About: Links
Will It Blend Takes On The Writers? Strike
2008-01-29 16:55:00 Tom Dickson of the Will It Blend video podcast isn?t letting the Writers ? Strike slow him down. One more reason why a video podcast about a kitchen gadget is one of the top twenty channels on... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Tube
WSC Show #81 - Interviews with Michael Perry, William Hasley, and David Rod
2008-01-29 09:01:00 powered by ODEO In today?s episode we'll conclude a series of interviews recorded last week at the King Day picketing event in front of Paramount Studios. Here we talk to Michael Perry , William... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Interviews , Show , David
Help Wanted: RSS Feed Support
2008-01-29 07:40:00 Any of my listeners or readers know how to encode an RSS or XML feed? I can't rely on Odeo and need to D.Y.I. for the podcast. But I also require expertise to do it. Please shoot me an e-mail if... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Support , Feed , Wanted , Help Wanted
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2008-01-29 07:00:00 Christian Century: Going digital - will the internet have as much influence as the printing press History of the Printing Press - Invention of the Printing Press Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Biography Oscars a Driving Force in WGA Strike Talks | The Underwire from Wired.com The Directors Guild of America?s National Board of Directors approved that guild's new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers this weekend -- paving the way to ratification of the deal by its general membership. The Associated Press: DGA Board Unanimously OKs Labor Deal The board of directors of the Directors Guild of America voted unanimously Sunday to recommend ratification of a deal with Hollywood studios. The Economys Effects On TV - TV Decoder - Media & Television - New York Times Blog In previous recessions, ?TV has always been that last resort,? Robert J. Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University, says in today?s New York Times. But viewers ma... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-01-28 07:00:00 Nieman Reports VillageSoup: A Community Host Model At Work ?Finding a sustainable business model for interactive distribution of news and information is essential.? An End To The Billion Dollar Strike?, Studios And Writers Are Cautiously Optimistic As Negotiations Are Set To Resume - CBS News Finally, in the third month of a bitter strike by TV and screen writers, there's something in the air. Strike: Signs still promising - Entertainment News, WGA Writers Strike, Media - Variety Hollywood remains guardedly optimistic about an end to the writers strike, now entering its 13th week. Hollywood writers turn to Plan B: the novel - Los Angeles Times As the writers strike drags on, there's at least one small corner of the industry that hasn't been grinding to a halt over the last months: literary departments at the major talent agencies, which are getting inundated with book proposals and story ideas Networks - Writers’ Strike - TV - New York Times What will television look like w... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-01-27 07:00:00 EveryBlock: A news feed for your block. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We're a geographic filter -- a "news feed" for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your bloc Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits Amy Gahran at E-Media Tidbits: Getting Smart About News Podcasts, including tips for getting the most mileage from your news podcasts. Home Page - Working Life If you're not familiar with the 3-year-old blog led by activist-writer Jonathan Tasini -- Working Life -- it focuses on a segment of the population that traditional newspaper reporters have certainly forgotten about: working people. His latest blog post l Is Michael Cieply The Worst Reporter Ever? - Working Life http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_pos t.php?content_id=7705 Primer on Copyright Liability and Fair Use | Citizen Media Law Project In this post we discuss copyright and fair use i... More About: Links , 2008
IS THIS THE FUTURE OF MEDIA?
2008-01-27 01:56:00 Must see...click here. Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Media , Future , The Future
WSC Show #78 - Hanging Out With Asterios Kokkinos
2008-01-26 09:20:00 powered by ODEO In this recording, striker Asterios Kokkinos gives me a ride to my car after a day of picketing on Martin Luther King Day in front of NBC Studios but we end up taking a tour of cool... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Show
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2008-01-26 07:00:00 So Far, Marketers Have Stuck With Networks - New York Times From Friday?s New York Times: Nearly three months into a strike by Hollywood screenwriters that has suffocated network television schedules, a large portion of prime time is now made up of reality competitions and untested new scripted shows. Questions San Jose Mercury News - Yahoo in early talks with major labels over possible MP3-based music service Yahoo in early talks with major labels over possible MP3-based music service. TV Watch » Blog Archive » Will TV Consumers Weigh In On The Oscars And Writers’ Strike? Why isn't there a write-in campaign, like what those crazy fans did with CBS' "Jericho"? Perhaps there is no urgency, coupled with the belief that the WGA and the producers will come to their senses. Interviews Become Two-Way Street Online « NewTeeVee Anyone who?s ever appeared on the news or a talk show can tell you that you can?t necessarily trust you will be treated fairl... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-01-25 07:00:00 Growing Online, BBC Is to Join With MySpace - New York Times The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation is expected to announce a partnership with MySpace on Thursday to make some of its content available on MySpace, the popular social networking Web site. Guild Board Member Predicts Detonation Day - TV Decoder - Media & Television - New York Times Blog Striking film and television writers picketed outside Paramount Studios on Wednesday, the day that the Writers Guild started informal discussions with Hollywood studios aimed at full negotiations and an end to the nearly 3-month-old strike. (Kevork Djanse Lionsgate Poised to Make Deal With Writers - TV Decoder - Media & Television - New York Times Blog Lionsgate, the movie and television company, is soon expected to join the growing ranks of production houses that have signed independent deals with the Writers Guild of America. A deal is expected in the next day or so, according to people who have been Google ... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-01-24 07:00:00 MediaPost Publications - SMG Chief Digital Officer: 'Change Is In The Air' - 01/23/2008 The writers' strike, the impending broadcast shift from analog to digital, and last year's flood of dollars into online ad networks and exchanges are exerting tremendous pressure on all the players in the TV industry. That's according to Curt Hecht, CDO, TV Watch » Blog Archive » Digital Video Ratings: Tell Us A Story Blame the writers' strike, bad reality shows, or high-flying-rated NFL playoff games about why the current TV network season is sucking big time. But what does one make of the news that YouTube's weekly visitor level dipped for the second week in a row? MediaPost Publications - Media Stocks Dive Along With Market - 01/23/2008 Media stocks were not immune to the stock market's wild ride downward that dropped the Dow Jones Industrial average by a massive 500 points at one point on Tuesday. So far in 2008, Walt Disney shares are down 11.7%, News Corp. is off aro... More About: Links
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2008-01-23 07:00:00 It's not TV, it's HBO on your computer - USATODAY.com On Tuesday, the pay-cable network unveils HBO On Broadband, featuring 400 hours of movies and original series that can be downloaded to computers. TV Networks’ Schedule Competition Is Starting to Resemble a Quilting Bee - New York Times Fox appears best positioned to weather the writers? strike. ABC, on the other hand, may be hurt by it the most. Why? ?Because it has the biggest scripted hits ? and because its audience, heavily female, is most susceptible to being stolen away by Digital Media Law: SAG and the WGA Eventually the studios and the WGA will make a deal. Will SAG accept the WGA deal as a template (assuming it doesn't accept the DGA deal as a template)? The conventional wisdom is yes, but the question's still worth asking. "Why I Trust Google" (The Googlization of Everything) HBO’s Baffling Broadband Plan « NewTeeVee HBO has announced that it is finally going to start offering its content... More About: Links , 2008
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2008-01-22 07:00:00 Diane Mermigas: On Media » Blog Archive » Economic Woes Mean TV Ad Pullback, Media Shift The economic woes driving the stock market to new lows will impede spending by advertisers that are ambivalent about waning consumers and a transforming media market. The big unknown is TV ad dollars?how much will be held back and shifted to alternative MediaPost Publications - Study: Internet Ads Will More Than Double By 2011 - 01/21/2008 YANKEE GROUP FORECASTS THAT INTERNET advertising will more than double to $50.3 billion in 2011 from $21.7 billion last year, driven by technology investments that will boost online ad performance. Notes From the Digital Frontier » Blog Archive » Are out-of-home TVs taking over? Recently there has been a lot of hype in blogs and news stories about out-of-home screens as the next best marketing tool. TV Watch » Blog Archive » Your Writers’ Strike Theory Is Wrong CRAZY WRITERS' STRIKE THEORIES ABOUND in the TV ... More About: Links
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2008-01-20 07:00:00 Five Ways to Save Joost « NewTeeVee Personally, I thought Joost was kinda lame. Sorry if you were a fan. My two cents. YMMV. United Hollywood: WGA Begins Back Channel Discussion With AMPTP UH has learned that as of yesterday, the WGA began an informal dialogue with one of the conglom bosses. The conversations were cordial and respectful on both sides. More About: Links , 2008
WSC Show #70 - Fans4Writers: Amy Norman and Kristin Pewitt
2008-01-19 09:21:00 powered by ODEO Today?s guests are Amy Norman and Kristin Pewitt from the "Food for Thought" meal delivery team of Fans 4Writers .com. Recorded Monday, 14 January 2008. Credits Producer/Host: Tanja... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Show
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2008-01-19 07:00:00 AMPTP - Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers The agreement between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the Directors Guild of America establishes an important precedent: Our industry?s creative talent will now participate financially in every emerging area of new media. T Welcome to the Directors Guild of America The Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced today that it has concluded a tentative agreement on the terms of a new 3-year collective bargaining agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). MediaPost Publications - YouTube Continues To Grow Video Share - 01/18/2008 FOR ALL THE HYPE SURROUNDING audience segmentation, YouTube and its parent Google continue to take an ever-larger share of U.S. Web video watchers, according to comScore's latest Video Metrix report. MediaPost Publications - Chattanooga Tops U.S. Cities for Podcast Download Request Growth - 01/18/2008 PITTSBURGH-BASED WIZZARD MEDIA, ... More About: Links
What does it cost to make a webisode?
2008-01-18 18:33:00 NewTeeVee breaks down what it costs to make a webisode. According to Chris Albrecht, " A good starting point to create a web series, according to a number of producers we asked, is about $1,000... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Cost , Make , Webisode
From Here to Awesome Film Festival
More articles from this author:2008-01-18 18:19:00 FROM HERE TO AWESOME IS A NEW DISCOVERY AND DISTRIBUTION FESTIVAL ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS STARTING JAN 10th. From their website: The festival?s goal is to create a direct connection between filmmaker... Tell us how the Writers' Strike is affecting you. Call the WSC hot-line at (310) 439-8754 or ping us at wgastrike2007@gmail.com More About: Film , Awesome , Festival , Film Festival 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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