Dave Nuttycombe posted notes from the panel session "Distribution Now: Strategic Thinking for the Feature Doc" at the recent Silverdocs documentary film festival and conference (via Scott Kirsner). Nuttycombe reports: The other painful insight came from [Emerging Pictures president and CEO Ira] DuBowski, who noted that "the era of just attending a movie is over." … Continue reading Building an “Analog Community” for Independent Films
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BusinessWeek on Generating Buzz and Profits for Independent Films
"Indie Filmmakers Hit Their Target" in BusinessWeek Online notes that just as some musicians have decided to walk away from the support (and the overhead) of record labels in order to market directly to their fans, independent filmmakers "are foregoing the conventional path of shopping their films to a distributor...and using the Internet to get … Continue reading BusinessWeek on Generating Buzz and Profits for Independent Films
Flash and PDF in Acrobat 9 (and Clarifying the Wall Street Journal)
Adobe Systems yesterday announced Acrobat 9 and the beta of the company's Acrobat.com hosted document services. Adobe's Ryan Stewart has good coverage on his ZDNet Universal Desktop column and his Digital Backcountry blog. ReadWriteWeb does its usual excellent job of covering the details. You'd do much better reading these blog posts than the venerable Wall … Continue reading Flash and PDF in Acrobat 9 (and Clarifying the Wall Street Journal)
Kevin Lynch: Clearing the AIR
Knowledge@Wharton today published an interview I did with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Lynch talks in depth about the origins of Adobe's AIR platform and its potential impact on software developers, consumers, and business users. Lynch also addresses some of the issues raised by Microsoft corporate vice president Scott Guthrie in a previous interview in which … Continue reading Kevin Lynch: Clearing the AIR
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