How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet - NYTimes.com

Hi Gang,
Well finally the times , who tracks everything, publishes a rather weak article explaining how everyone else is tracking everything. Think about it everything that you read, touch, visit, say, post, delete all saved for posterity by your ISP, Google, Facebook, etc. All cross referenced, as a way of determining your likes and dislikes. Hmm, how far does this go, political, religious, tastes, sexual preferences, where is the boundary and who sets the rules? congress, the Govt, private companies at the moment , that's who. Is Google evil, well, ask yourself if you mind your private info being shared with eavesdroppers you don't know hired by private companies, to determine your personal tastes so they can track your interests without asking you.
How would you like it if your Boss, or ex did this, or the IRS, or someone you owe money, but wait, they can do this already oops. Welcome to the real Matrix



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Quality of life on social net study

Pew study begins to look at crucial quality if life issues.
How do people inhabit social networks.
Issues of intimacy , trust, caring, integrity , etc. Emotional impacts need examined More than databases are relational.


REPORT: SOCIAL NETWORKING, SAFETY
The tone of life on social networking sites
by Lee Rainie, Amanda Lenhart

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The overall social and emotional climate of social networking sites (SNS) is a very positive one where adult users get personal rewards and satisfactions at far higher levels than they encounter anti-social people or have ill consequences from their encounters. A nationally representative phone survey of American adults finds that:

85% of SNS-using adults say that their experience on the sites is that people are mostly kind, compared with 5% who say people they observe on the sites are mostly unkind and another 5% who say their answer depends on the situation.
68% of SNS users said they had an experience that made them feel good about themselves.
61% had experiences that made them feel closer to another person. (Many said they had both experiences.)



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Facebook and emotional life

This study gives us a glimpse into a significant topic, the impact of Facebook and social media on the inner life of its users.
We are only beginning to look at this issue, and much work remains to be done to begin to see how our understanding of ourselves and our relationships to others have been radically altered .The net is not just about sharing YouTube videos of kids pasties or cats coughing up hair balls.
It's about how we relate to others and ourselves .
Stay tuned .

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The tone of life on social networking sites
by Lee Rainie, Amanda Lenhart, Aaron Smith
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85% of SNS-using adults say that their experience on the sites is that people are mostly kind, compared with 5% who say people they observe on the sites are mostly unkind and another 5% who say their answer depends on the situation.
68% of SNS users said they had an experience that made them feel good about themselves.


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CES: YouTube Predicts 90% of Online Traffic Will Be Video by 2012 - IGN

Hi gang, this gets interesting not do much for the fact that video becomes primary, it all ready is, buy what is being watched.
Is this mostly people sharing with their friends-- probably -- so how many eyeballs will watch scripted entertainment.
All the free YouTube use does is give google more ways to sell targeted ads.
Facebook as well, targeted ads.
Even better in structured data.
Personalization is key.
It's all a matter of taste, matching, recommendation and discovery .




CES: YouTube Predicts 90% of Online Traffic Will Be Video by 2012 - IGN

You tube eclipses tv

The remarkable fact that a century of video he's loaded every 10 days means people want to share their world with each other by showing .
From fur balls to Arab springs to your kids viral video, everyone now can share what's important to them .This is an old hippie idea made real, revealing our isolation and desire for connectedness.

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Sotheby's year of social tv

http://m.thewrap.com/thewrap/pm_106592/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=9OosLWSV

All tv is inherently social tv.Why, because it essential to a show that people talk about it, share it, in order for it to be successful .
The technology just makes gossip easier, sharing about tv shows--as Oprah can attest to--is gossiping.
The virtual back fence , water cooler, local pub, for a topic , show, to get traction people need to share their opinions about it.
Kids, moms, Dads, the show lives in the minds and emotions of its fans, not on the tube.
Emotional sharing produces likes, and dislikes, influences feelings and advertising.
Personal mythology connects the individual to social myth via sharing about media.
see my paper on. Social media on my website
TheWrap.com : Facebook and Twitter, Meet NBC, Fox and Bravo: 2012 Will be the Year of Social TV

Forget about the age of must-see television, 2012 will be the year of must-tweet TV.

Networks large and small are using social media to engage second-screen viewers like never before. A few of the most high-profile recent examples include:

>> Monday, Fox News used Twitter to measure viewer reaction to its GOP debate and encourage online interaction based on the candidates’ answers.

>>NBC partnered with Facebook for its “Meet the Press” debate Jan. 8.

>>VH1 offered a four-hour live stream of analysis during its Critics’ Choice Movie Awards broadcast last week.

“Particularly over the last year, we’ve seen social media grow from just being the latest shiny new toy to being a really powerful tool that is integral to gathering news and telling stories,” Ryan Osborn, senior director of digital media for NBC News, told TheWrap.


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The New York Times

Hi Gang,
Heres a very interesting phenomena. Digital pats dropping. I don't mean literally, plenty of that, I mean psychologically. These young people think that the ultimate test of trust is to share passwords. Is is more or less intimate than sex, one wonders. Would you sleep with some one or give them access to your email.
Elife creates interesting moral dilemmas

Young, in Love and Sharing Everything, Including passwords

Drew Kelly for The New York Times
Alexandra Radford, 20, shared passwords with a boyfriend when she was in high school.

BY MATT RICHTEL
January 17, 2012
Young couples have long signaled their devotion to each other by various means — the gift of a letterman jacket, or an exchange of class rings or ID bracelets. Best friends share locker combinations.
The digital era has given rise to a more intimate custom. It has become fashionable for young people to express their affection for each other by sharing their passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts. Boyfriends and girlfriends sometimes even create identical passwords, and let each other read their private e-mails and texts.


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VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film (Updated)

possibly good news for indie film makers,



VOD Rides to the Rescue of Indie Film (Updated)

Google+ Gains Traction, Researcher Says - NYTimes.com

Hi Gang, watch this space, Google plus works cause every time you search the little G+ is just sitting there asking you to click it. Question how soon will it get integrated with facebook, for real.







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Can a Picture Of Your Mother Diagnose Depression? | Wired Science | Wired.com

Hi Gang,
Seems like my neuroscientist colleagues, whom I'm sure wouldn't be caught dead in therapy, have discovered that Freud was possibly right about a few things, well bully for them.
May I ask, what about a picture of some one who looks, like your Mother, or acts like her, in person, in a movie,on TV on the net?
Freud also speculated that the unconscious mind couldn't tell the difference between a real sandwich and an imagined one , how about about a real Mother and an imagined one?
Stay tuned.



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AFM 2011 report

 

Hi Gang, back from a very busy week at AFM in Sanat Monica, and covering Variety's Future of Film Summit,  Many less buyers, but lots of sellers. Brisk biz. One interesting fact worthy of note,according to the LA times,  75% all films released in the US last year were Indie productions, up 50% from 2 years ago, quite a leap.The good news lots of cash around for indie movies, bad news , they need to be top notch. This is not bad news for those who have the next Kings Speech, or Black Swan, because they will have star attached. The low .no budget thrillers and c stuff still sells but for a lot less.

The big item, how will indie producers/direcors etc., get paid, in the futre with all the VOD and same day and date release deals being made.?

The transmedia space is starting to heat up as the realization begins to sink in that one dimensioinal projects have less of a chance of recoupment, than  projects aimed at multiple platforms.

Stay tuned for how this will impact stroytelling in all media.

 

 

Michael Rose: Indie Filmmakers Storm the Beach at American Film Market

The good news from the finance conference was that there is plenty of money available for quality projects like The King's Speech and not just the blockbuster studio pictures. But the key is "you still have to make a good movie at the end of the day," said Jared Underwood, Senior Vice President of Entertainment at Comerica Bank.

Yahoo as a network ?

Hi gang, well now ww are starting to see where web 3.0 is going. Everyone is in the content biz, the tv biz. The net is cable tv on steroids . Yahoo is going into production, along with google, Netflix , Aol, and why not.
These are the new studios, and as opposed to the Hollywood studios, these guys are making development deals.
Regular TV has become more like the movies, afterall Scorsese is making Boardwalk Empire for HBO.
Look for some major talent deals being announced by these varied "studios ".


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Online Game-Maker Zynga's Has Virtual Products, Real Profits - WSJ.com

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Back from summer fun, check this article out. Key point,"We're an analytics company masquerading as a games company," said Ken Rudin, a Zynga vice president in charge of its data-analysis team, in one of a series of interviews with Zynga executives prior to the company's July filing for an initial public offering.
An analytic s company, thats right, only 5% of users buy things, but out of a claimed 150m monthly users, that not a bad business is it.
How do you know what they will buy, simple you test market the thingy and if it sells you win, if not , you create another virtual cartoon.
It's all about the imagination thats what is being sold, imaginary friends, relationships, fun, stories. Use your imagination to create stories and if they are engaging others will inhabit the story with you, a sort of group hallucination, kind of like your facebook friendships, only actually completely made up, afterall their cartoons.


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By NICK WINGFIELD
To understand why Zynga Inc. is among the tech industry's hottest companies, consider how it gets people to buy a bunch of things that don't exist.
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In Zynga's 'Empires & Allies' online game, players can buy better weapons to win military battles.

Last year, Zynga product managers for a videogame called "FishVille" discovered something intriguing while sifting data that Zynga collects when people play its online games. Players bought a translucent anglerfish at six times the rate of other sea creatures, using an imaginary currency people get by playing the game.


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Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys? | Video on TED.com

dr Z has a thought provoking commentary her, and the most interesting aspect is his comments on media., check it out.


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The movie plots that technology killed | Film | The Guardian

This article parodies how old great movies would be fundamentally altered by having new technologies in them. What it really means is that new technologies require new imaginations, and plot points that fit with the new world in which they occur. Good to know there will always be a place for imaginative story tellers

The movie plots that technology killed
Hollywood's classic murders, stalkings and deceptions would never have been possible had today's technology been around. Joe Queenan rewrites the script for the digital age




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Katzenberg on future of movies

Hi all, Katzenberg has a lot to say about the Future of movies and TV and they are smart.
Key point as a good film maker he says different delivery systems create opportunities for different types of story telling , and I might add different types of experiences .
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Google plus1 ie.googbook

Googbook emerges soon facetube then googtweetbook, ? How many users same in each. Repeat! A thought, microsoft has a peice of Facebook, and just bought Skype. What these really means is your likes and profile can now be shared and targeted more precislly by all the companies scouring the collective databases, have fun managing your Identities now!


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When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com

Hi gang, as we are on the eve of the Semantech conference in SF, the mother of all semantic technology hoedowns with all the latest and greatest in the field this article is timely.
Again, your intrepid reporter/analyst will be covering the conference. This years challenge, as alluded to in this article, to find out how much the Internet--as if it were an entity(which it may be) actually not only knows about you, but , more importantly, understands.
The leading company in this field, last year kicked off its "meaning based " marketing campaign. Meaning. it would give meaning for those who paid , to the ever growing mounds of data being collected about you. Remember that Facebooks like button, means that you are saying what you like and don't like, and this simple act makes the semantic task, theoretically a lot easier, BUT since the semantic engines still cannot tell the differences between irony and sarcasm,the issue of knowing you in any real sense is mute. Can your behavior likes and dislikes be tracked, yes, how well does this information when correlated with other info define you, that is what I hope to find out at the conference, or at least shed some light on. The internet, meaning companies and the feds that buy and sort the data, may know some of your tastes, but know you, I doubt it. Ask yourself, do you think your facebook friends know you?, How well? Without a way to slice the info along psychographical lines, the Inet can't know your many selves. The beauty of the net is that people can lie, computers don't lie, they compute, language is wiggly, and human beings use it as intended to both occlude and reveal meaning
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When the Internet Thinks It Knows You - NYTimes.com

ONCE upon a time, the story goes, we lived in a broadcast society. In that dusty pre-Internet age, the tools for sharing information weren’t widely available. If you wanted to share your thoughts with the masses, you had to own a printing press or a chunk of the airwaves, or have access to someone who did. Controlling the flow of information was an elite class of editors, producers and media moguls who decided what people would see and hear about the world. They were the Gatekeepers.



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Studios theater owners get down over VOD

Hi Gang
Check this out, it's ultimately about who gets the cash and behind that is how do the creatives do , you know writers, directors, actors, producers.
Remember how there used to never be backend, now you can count on it.

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Films/video games disconnect

This article outlines the difficult relationship between gamers and movie folks.leaves out a key element: story.
Many of the games generated by films, don't have a compelling story or gameplay, whereas films that take the gamestory seem to do better.Why, screenwriting and game writing are completely different and require different skills and sensibilities .
Creating a script from a game allows the writer to establish the characters, their relationships beyond their one dimesionality in a game.

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