hollywood movie murder mystery

Looking at the movie making process, with so many stages from concept to distribution all with its checks and filters, one would think that the product that comes out of it all is bound to be a masterpiece.

But the truth has been the reverse.

I don't know if there is a lesson here. And if there is, what is it!

Some pointers: PBS Frontline on Hollywood.

on 'vertical news'

Maybe its about time for 'Vertical News'.

As opposed to the barrage of snapshots we periodically get from the current mainstream media, with vNews (we news) you can see how things snowball, at what pace and in what sequence etc.

So the RSS readers in future, will be delivering updates to the exisiting posts instead of just delivering the new posts, since with vertical news one will have the same theme developng over time.

on barrier to entry

Found this article titled Valley Boys in BW very inspiring...

To post some snippets, before the link becomes stale:
The barriers to entry are now so low that all it takes is a laptop and a $50-a-month Internet hookup to make a kid the next mogul.

That's possible because the cost of jump-starting a good idea has plummeted. At the same time, the sources of money have multiplied, swirling in from new VC shops, angel investors, and strategic partners galore.

"It's a good time now for the entrepreneur," says John Freeman, a professor at University of California at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. "There are lots of different pots of money. It gives them the ability to modify when they take it, [and] how much they take, and leaves them with more control."

This time around, the entrepreneurs worry that, within a moment, the money -- and their projects -- could vanish.

...someone from the last boom who was worth millions one month, only to move into his parents' basement the next.

some web2.0 thoughts

Just was wondering today if we will ever start to see blogs as open-classrooms.

I didn't know if it makes sense to even ask this, but this article on the economists blogging pointed to such a potential trend.

The explosion of user-generated content via Podcasts, YouTube-s and Blogs, combined with the level of interactivity that these web2.0 technologies offer, maybe we should even start expecting it now.

With blogs of such quality around, and with the amount of research-grade information already available through sites like Google's Scholar, will an university degree become irrelevant (or even a cause for suspicion :-).