Peer Production: CHILLTOWN TV Ep 6

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Because this series just – we dunno – amazes us:

Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry Sets 3 New Series

This may seem like just another showbiz P.R. announcement, but it’s much more than that. Can anybody guess why?

Felicia is famous!
Felicia is famous!

The actress-producer’s YouTube Channel has also renewed “TableTop” and “Space Janitors” for additional runs
by Lesley Goldberg

Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry has renewed two series for additional runs and picked up three new series.

The web sensation’s production company and YouTube Channel has renewed TableTop and Space Janitors and announced an April 1 start date for new shows Felicia’s Ark, Fetch Quest and The Player Ones. read article

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie: Chapter 6 – Things Fall Apart


Adventures of a Web Series Newbie: Chapter 6 - Things Fall Apart

by Leesa Dean

Ok. Before I continue with the Rollo saga I’m gonna kick this off with first, saying R.I.P. to brilliant writer Chinua Achebe who just passed away and second, a few random unrelated observations from the trenches:

1) The word “genius” is bandied about at an alarming rate.
2) I’ve yet to meet anybody who’s an actual genius since I’ve started. Smart, yes. Genius, no.
3) Doing a web series is similar to having a serious disease in that when it jumps off, you find out pretty quickly who your real friends are. And the results, at least for me, have been surprising. And sometimes depressing.
4) When someone says they want to “build” with you, it’s usually a codeword for, “you’re never ever getting paid.”

So Rollo, that’s what you came for, right? read article

Minus IQ – For the Sake of Survival

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If TVWriter™ accepted advertising, here’s who we’d want to be sponsored by:

Peer Production: munchman sees EXPLAIN LIKE I’M FIVE

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…Which is a Reddit-associated video – first of a series, it appears – in which a couple of condescending dweebs explain Friedrich Nietsche to a group of kids so much smarter than they are that it’s pathetic.

THE GOOD: read article