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Social Media Magazine Is In Print – Wait, What?

In a sign that media people don't always understand media - especially social media - The Cool Blue Company LLC is proud to announce the world's first print magazine dedicated to social media called The Social Media Monthly.Yes, a print magazine about Facebook.Artist Yiying Lu, famous to Twitter users because they see her drawings of the "Fail Whale" when it crashes, graces the cover.  The...

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Science 2.0 For TV – Product Planning

This afternoon we had the first formal meeting for product planning of the Science 2.0 television pilot.   As you can imagine, there was talk of technical details, how the creative guys will set up the shot lists and storyboard the segments, what segments we will use, and then some of the philosophical stuff.Like, what will make Science 2.0 a science show for the next century?I told the...

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Beast Machines: The "War And Peace" Of The Transformers Milieu

I am told "Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a good film.  I enjoyed the first movie well enough, even if it was noisy in all of the wrong ways.   The sequel hurt both my eyes and my sensibilities but at least the pain in my eyes had an easy explanation:  Michael Bay, or perhaps his cinematographer, read some science and discovered that flesh tones, which exist in the orange...

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