Separated at birth
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
The Two Harrys (Potter and Enfield):
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I’m going to LA for the Oscars
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Jackie Danicki
Okay, so I’m going to be watching them on TV at Cathy Seipp’s house, but still! (LA Times opinion editor Matt Welch and Emmanuelle Richard, who will be covering the Oscars for French TV on Sunday, have been kind enough to open up their guest room to me for my visit. I don’t think poor […]
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Managing my spontaneous fun
Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
When I decided to give up salaried work for the freelance and non-profit life, one of my goals was to read more books. I’m doing fine on that. My favourite of late has been Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld, which I loved and did not want to end. Sittenfeld is only a year older than me, […]
John Pilger
Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Oliver Kamm has a succinct column in today’s Times about why John Pilger should not be celebrated, admired, respected, or trusted. Kamm goes into much more detail in this blog post. Both are worth reading.
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Notes on a Scandal
Posted on July 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Like so many members of London’s haute bourgeoisie, Sheba is deeply attached to a mythology of herself as street-smart. She always howls when I refer to her as upper class. (She’s middle, she insists; at the very most, upper-middle.) She loves to come shopping with me in the Queenstown street market or the Shop-A-Lot next […]
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Why the telcos are scared of us
Posted on June 24th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Here’s a quick video of Adriana making a very important point about net neutrality at Vloggercon in San Francisco a couple of weekends ago. I am not a big one for downloading huge files and watching several minutes of video in order to get to the chunks I really want to see (yes, instant gratification […]
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Techdirt Greenhouse II: Jumpcut
Posted on June 19th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
I was very impressed by a Techdirt Greenhouse demo from online editing company Jumpcut. Using clips from other Jumpcut users and Jumpcut’s own video clip repository, you can edit your own videos online and turn them in to works of digital art.
One very cool project that Jumpcut brought to the web was a trailer […]
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Last comment on The Da Vinci Code
Posted on May 26th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
…Not that I’ve made a first comment, but Chris in the comments over at Samizdata pretty much speaks for me on this:
Cultural products like The DaVinci Code are ultimately expressions of ideas, with the power to convince. This power is particularly compelling given the way that imagination has been systematically subordinated to the instant gratification […]
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Studios’ order for a clue makes some progress
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Has Hollywood discovered the long tail by accident? If they are indeed improving box office takings by selling less of more, like Amazon and Netflix do - that is, fewer tickets per film, but lots more films showing - then perhaps this is what will finally kill the unsustainable, economically bankrupt, overblown budget model. We […]
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Netflix vs Amazon envelopes. Really.
Posted on April 22nd, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Dave Winer points to this Business 2.0 piece on the evolution of the Netflix envelope. I’ve been using Amazon’s DVD rental service for a few weeks now - they had a free month on offer, and I signed up for the three DVDs for £5.99 per month plan. (By the way, that free month offer […]
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Barry Diller building a walled garden?
Posted on April 21st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Cluetrain co-author David Weinberger says he thinks of ‘user-generated content’ as ‘us-generated content‘. I like.
David also links to this Economist article, Among the audience. Great quotation re Barry Diller:
“What an ignoramus!” says Jerry Michalski, with some exasperation. He advises companies on the uses of new media tools. “Look around and there’s tons of great stuff […]
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The James Miller “murder”
Posted on April 8th, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
Film critic Jeffrey Wells - whose politics would not have led me to count on him to defend the IDF over anything - writes:
There’s an Associated Press story by the London-based Tariq Panja that just went up saying the fatal shooting of British filmmaker James Miller near the Gaza-Egypt border in May 2003 by […]
Parent-designed education looks better by the minute
Posted on April 1st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki
How on earth can a school administrator possibly justify this kind of propaganda shovelling into young mouths?
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Borders in deep financial trouble?
Posted on March 31st, 2006 by Jackie Danicki