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Apr25
I See Bulldozers
0493-Printing-Press-q75-445x500.jpg Our buddy Steve Bryant just wrote about Harvey Weinstein's attempt to steer the lumbering movie industry into the YouTube future

It's heartening to see a media company is using this new video-blogging technology, rather than trying to sue it into oblivion.


"AdRants also notes that trailers for Lucky Number Slevin and Clerks II are up on YouTube now. The first 8 minutes of Lucky Number Slevin has been viewed about 80,000 times since being uploaded 4 days ago, and the Clerks II trailer, which was uploaded April 14, has been viewed 223,843 times."

On a seemingly unrelated note, the loveable Chartreuse tipped me off (with a bit of lusty  art and choice headline selection) to Jeff Pulver's $1000 contest aimed at generating the best viral marketing scheme possible to convince politicians to preserve the creative independence of the Internet. 

"We are allegedly the revolutionaries of the Internet and communications," Pulver writes. "Shouldn't we be the ones revolutionizing the way advocacy is done and communicated in the 21st Century?"

But you know what? That contest is related to Weinstein's love affair with YouTube and MySpace.


Giant movie studios and media companies and government regulators and a whole bunch of other powerful people are about to bulldoze the wilderness of the blogosphere.  As fledgling writers, this might be our last chance to speak before the big guys control the conversation...

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