If you’re like me, you probably feel like you’re at the back of a long technology train when it comes to things like “RSS feeds” or why so many blogs have that funny orange icon with the three marks in it.
I put this together after finally figuring out (and really benefiting from) setting up a feed reader for myself.
Our friend Julian Nitzberg made a great followup to “The Dancing Outlaw” that will be in theaters this summer. He has been friends with Jesco White and his family for two decades. We had a great time last fall hanging out with Julien, his friend Dale and a bunch of hillbilly movie fans at the Hot Springs Doc Festival. Here is a short piece about the film from last year’s Tribeca Film Fest:
A little “how-to” on how to shut down some of the weird stuff that FB is up to.
Facebook launched some fairly impressive new features and services at its recent f8 conference, but some of them were also more than just a little scary. Since a lot of what the company talked about was introduced in either “developer speak” — involving terms like API and JSON — or involved social networking jargon such as “social graph” and “activity map,” we thought it would be handy to break it down for those who aren’t as well versed in such things (maybe your mom, maybe your brother-in-law — maybe you). What do these changes mean? And what should you do if you don’t like the prospect of automatically sharing your activity with everyone you know on Facebook? ctd…
Thank You to all the intrepid midnight filmgoers! We never guessed we’d fill the theater twice in Athens. Thanks to Brewce and the entire crew from the farm for coming out again. And to paraphrase Frank Zappa, “Thank you Athens, Ohio, wherever you are.”
Photo courtesy of David Hooker
This year there are some local films, that after speaking with Athena director, Ruth Bradley, could really contend to win Best Film. There is the film Skatopia that focuses on the Meigs County skate park. Bradley said that this could be the biggest of all of them and it was almost sold out when I spoke to her on Wednesday. This is a local film with local people and is being shown to a local audience. This is really cool especially for local filmmakers because the movie industry is so tough to break into and now there is an opportunity for a local production to break into the market and be shown to an audience that has vested interest in this product.
Nice write up from WOUB TV that interviewed Laurie the day before the show.
