Last month Arin and I finalised plans for me to exit OpenIndie. It has been an exciting, frustrating and fruitful three years, but as of the 13th of March 2013 Arin is now sole owner of OpenIndie; the site will continue under his leadership and I wish him every success with the business. In this post I…
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Amazon recently announced that its X-Ray service will be expanded to include a selection of TV shows. The X-Ray product essentially integrates the audiences viewing experience with content from the Amazon-owned IMDB service. While reading the IMDB X-Ray FAQs I was dismayed to find no mention of an API or content submission process. I felt…
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Tribeca will be a flying visit this year and my schedule is absolutely packed. I’m going to be in NYC from April 18th – 22nd and those days are going to be stuffed with activity. I’ll be conducting five or six interviews on the subject of technology and film for a forthcoming book and video…
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Anyone remotely interested in the world of crowfunding and filmmaking can not have failed to come across the phenomenally successful Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie. Since its launch and amazing success, meeting its goal of $2 million in under twenty four hours, there has been a lot of talk on Twitter and in blog posts…
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I have long been very cynical about mainstream film critics, the sort of guys that work for BBC Radio 1 or write for the national newspapers. People who know me and talk to me about film will know that if they say something like, “I was reading a review of that in the newspaper…”, I…
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I’ve long been a man with an appreciation for good tools. But recently I came across a collection of videos from John Neeman Tools that took my tool fetish to a whole new level. These chaps know good craftsmanship and more importantly they know how to fetishise the hell out of them. If you’re into…
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By complete chance I recently watched TPB AFK and Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide back to back and the juxtaposition of the two brought to my attention some striking similarities in these cases. For those that don’t know, the former, TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay – Away From Keyboard), is the story of Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter…
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Schedules, who needs schedules! In this episode we chat about a few interesting stories and sites we have stumbled across and discuss some of the upcoming features destined to appear in WordPress 3.6. Now with added music! Topics of interest include: Modern IE, Those Who Make, Wooden Specs Studio (pictured above) & Unresponsive Design If…
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Earlier this week a post by Bruce Lawson entitled, “More on DRM in HTML5″ caught my eye. I had come across the issue before but this was the first time I’d properly read the W3C working draft in question. For those that don’t know, the HTML5 / DRM issue was ignited by the “Encrypted Media Extensions”…
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What a dreadful “hero” image Keir Whitaker chose for the latest episode of The Back to Front Show. That’s Marc Roberts and my good self awaiting the first talk at this year’s New Adventures in Web Design conference in Nottingham. Here’s this week’s blurb and the link to the podcast: “Better late than never. We are…
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