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    Podgnosticast 006 – Aina Abiodun: Who’s Who in Transmedia. An interview about the beginnings of Transmedia NYC and where we’re headed next.

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Back. Finally. After few weeks of reading and/or fishing…then preparation for the Power to the Pixel – IFP Cross Media Forum which took place last week at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center, I am back. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it was a collaboration between the very forward thinking Power [...]

In tracking the trajectory of the Life In A Day project – the well publicized collaboration between YouTube and Ridley Scott’s company, I have asked some provocative questions and made some educated guesses on how it would turn out.  So, to the question we all ask when we watch a film –What is it ABOUT?–I [...]

The YouTube feature film experiment I wrote about last year is finally finished, in time for the intended premiere both at Sundance and on YouTube on January 27th. The experiment, which invited filmmakers to submit films shot on a single day – July 24, 2010 is coming to your laptop screen next week. According to [...]

The facts of the shooting of US Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen other people in a Tuscon, Arizona grocery store are simply horrifying by any account: A man enters a store armed with a gun, targets the Representative, shoots her in the head and begins a seemingly random mass killing spree that results in [...]

The best part of Ridley Scott’s video pitch for “Life In A Day” is him slipping into the fact that a vodka martini makes him happy. This precious nugget, at 1:07 in the clip below might had been missed had it not been for the weird and suddenly useful subtitling provided. Before you throw me [...]

The fact that CBS greenlit Sh*t My Dad Says, a sitcom based on a Twitter based meme is notable for a few reasons. First, in terms of the Hollywood machine, I believe this is a first – taking a fictional character from the social media world and creating a series around it. Second, I think [...]