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Applying to IPF’s Web Drama Series Pilot Program

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Andra Sheffer’s office has walls in two shades of blue and looks west out at College where the blue roof of the police headquarters matches her decor nicely.  I was visiting to find out more about the Independent Production Fund and what I could put into my application that would help it stand out from […]

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Digital Decade: The Writing Community

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years.  In my last post, I talked about viewing habits.  Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us.
Blogs
Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog easily arrived […]

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Survival of the Most Creative

Monday, November 2, 2009

Rob Mills turned me on to a very important interview with Eric Garland of Big Champagne, who has been monitoring trends in filing sharing for almost 10 years. In the CNET interview, Garland puts what he knows in the context of the future of the film and music industries. He has a lot […]

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The Future of the TV Industry

Friday, August 21, 2009

An interesting week for indepth industrial coverage of the television biz.  There was the Walrus’s long piece on the Canadian industry but also The Wrap’s Josef Adalian’s article (part one a
nd part two)on the end of television as we know it.  It’s a somewhat depressing read, but it definitely raises interesting questions.
Adalian believes that we […]

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