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Peer Production: STUCK

All too true?

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Who says video games are ruining our ability to participate in life? read article

Angelo Bell: The Great Equalizer

by Angelo Bell

Life is never a level playing field.

There will always be people who are smarter than you.

There will aways be  people who are better connected than you. read article

The Nuclear Option: Batman, Iron Man, and Attitudes Toward Power

There’s nothing like overthinking THE AVENGERS and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES to bring sunshine to our day:

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by Richard Rosenbaum

The summer of 2012 saw the premiere of two major superhero movies: The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises. Of course, both being superhero movies it’s only logical that they would have a certain number of things in common – tropes of the genre that make it what it is instead of, you know, something else. There were plenty of extra-diegetic similarities as well: both were directed and co-written by well-respected auteurs (Joss Whedon and Christopher Nolan respectively), both were the culmination of film series that had led up to these as their climax (in DKR’s case it was the final volume in Nolan’s trilogy that started with 2005’s Batman Begins; with Avengers it was the ultimate assembly of characters and plotlines that had been being pieced together since Iron Man in 2008). read article

The Writers Guild of America Wants Us To Know About New Ways of Doing TV Series Biz

For all practical purposes, the Guild has come to the same conclusions we posted here yesterday. But, especially considering how far behind the technology/market/New Media curve the Guild has been in the past, the WGAw perspective is well worth sharing.

So, direct from the WGAw’s latest e-mailing:

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by Team TVWriter™ Press Service (in other words, it’s a press release)

There was considerable media hoopla last week around the premiere of House of Cards, Netflix’s first original series. Written by Guild member Beau Willimon (The Ides of March), directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, the high-profile series reportedly cost $100 million for two 13-episode seasons and was a shining example of web TV at its flashiest. read article

Peer Production: For Your Delectation – A Short FIlm Written By Cleverbot

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…But, fortunately, produced and directed and acted by humans.

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