(And a tip of the TVWriter™ hat to the first person who knows why the “We’ve got…” phrase means something in the history of U.S. TV.)
Chuck Fox, websman extraordinaire, came up with not one, not two, but three really cool logos for this site. It was a bitch to decide between them. In fact, I’m still tempted to set everything so all three appear randomly on various pages and posts here.
Today is a big day for me. It’s the Official Opening Day for the new TVWriter.Com website.
Lots of changes, including:
…which wouldn’t happen no matter how cute this unauthorized (I assume) little guy is if the DOCTOR WHO series wasn’t right up there among the best ever on TV.
Read it allThis weekend I celebrated the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in Williamsburg, Brooklyn! And I finally got my hands on some biscuits and other British treats. I had a lovely time. Thanks, friends!
If I get it right, Shane Smith is telling us that a big problem with New Media is that it is spending all its resources imitating Old Media. Web TV, he says as the keynote speaker at something called IWNY HQ 2012. Same kind of programming. Same kind of publicity. Same kind of business practices. Same kind of sales tactics.
I say, “If I get it right,” because Shane Smith, the founder of a New Media company called Vice, which recently made a deal to produce a show on Old Media’s HBO and tells us about it in a way that reveals a man incredibly proud of being ashamed of not being original and is described in the “New York Times” as “a robust storyteller, the type who wears a few extra pounds as if they’re a trophy from good living,” but I found his presentation, including the clips from his new show, so dull that I couldn’t watch more than the first five minutes.
To be fair, “The Times” also calls this crazy, zany, “Falstaffian” figure both “a voice of a generation of too-cool D.J.’s and artists who wear rolled selvedge jeans and chunky glasses…[and]also a conduit for corporate America to reach that elusive audience.” So they see that he’s not exactly totally devoted to art, youth, or, for that matter greed.
TVWriter.Com has been a very successful website for a very long time. But that hasn’t kept me from thinking about ways to make our little home away from home a bit more than it’s been.
Got to thinking about a website Dan Davison and I put together about five years ago. The object behind PeerProducer.Com was to – for free – teach newbies how to make the best video they could. We never really got it flying for all the reasons most people don’t get things flying.
But today I ran across this promo video I made with another Dan, Dan Reynolds, President of TV station KTO 8 in the garden spot (I mean this) of Harrison, AR. And, dammit, I don’t care if it only got 187 views. I like it.