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Blogging boosts your social life: research [ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)]
“Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found.” (It’s worth noting that these were MySpace blogs…) (tags: myspace blog socialnetworking)
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Cloverfield Showreel [Double Negative]
For sfx junkies, a fascinating showreel from the fx people behind Cloverfield showing exactly how green-screens were used to composit the ruins of New York into most scenes. [Via](tags: cloverfield specialeffects sfx film)
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Nine Inch Nails Gets Online Music Right [PC World]
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) have released their latest album in a variety of formats, in digital and physical form, with a core of nine tracks being released as DRM mp3 files, under a creative commons license! (tags: drm mp3 music creativecommons)
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1,000 True Fans [Kevin Kelly — The Technium]
“Unless artists become a large aggregator of other artist’s works, the long tail offers no path out of the quiet doldrums of minuscule sales. … One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans.” (The critical mass monetization of fandom?) (tags: 1000truefans longtail fandom marketing web2.0 socialnetworking)
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Experimenting in Bed When Not After Vampires [New York Times]
Apparently Buffy (yes, the Vampire Slayer) “experimenting” with another girl in the comic-book continuation of Joss Whedon’s series ranks a mention in the New York Times. (tags: buffy gender sexuality comics)