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Comment on Screens, Screens, Screens by Theatrical-Release Feature-Film is Irrelevent… « IFSS Production

Theatrical-Release Feature-Film is Irrelevent… « IFSS Production — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:43:56 +0000

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Comment on The Order That Comes When You Shoot In Order by mrdirector

mrdirector — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:33:21 +0000

Thanks for the post, Norman. I’m a film student at the University of Central Florida. On my junior short film I spent a huge amount of time with the actors blocking out the scenes much to the dismay of my crew. They just wanted to show up and do it. After the shoot, however, I received a huge amount of positive feedback about how my set was one of the smoothest student sets they had ever been on. Yay for blocking.

Comment on Why It Would Be Good To Own Stock In Mobile Content Companies by WARRY

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Comment on Wordle Tells All, Sees All by Surf’s Up: Creativity Links for July 14, 2008 « Creative Liberty

Surf’s Up: Creativity Links for July 14, 2008 « Creative Liberty — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:43:00 +0000

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Comment on Wordle Tells All, Sees All by jaaed

jaaed — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:36:21 +0000

I wordle-d my CVs and ‘about’ pages on my website to see what the overall impression I was giving people was, and posted the results in my blog.

I’m currently re-working my CVs and website slightly to bring out the things which I think should be emphasised more, and lessen some other elements. Bearing synonyms in mind, of course.

Comment on The Password Post-It Conundrum by Norman

Norman — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:10:29 +0000

And, yet, many people still worry about putting all of their password information (no matter how skimpy it is) up in the cloud. What your company has to worry about, encrypted or not, is the perception of a large percentage of net users (not unjustifiably) that hackers are really smart and that the only reason why they haven’t attacked any one given technology or site is if that site is too small to be worth the investment.

What people think is that if your company, god willing, gets big enough to attract serious notice and have millions of users, is that it will become a bigger target for hacking. And then all of that information that they’ve entrusted you with will fall into someone else’s hands.

I believe that these fears are, though overblown, with some basis in reality. But even if it were completely baseless, it would still be important to have a suite of solutions, not just one sitting up there in the cloud.

Comment on The Password Post-It Conundrum by Louise

Louise — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:33:51 +0000

You bring up excellent points about how people don’t know how to deal with passwords anymore.

I work for http://www.passpack.com, which is an online password manager and we are always trying to inform people of all the exact points in your post - post-its, password reuse, password fatigue.

There is a solution - keeping your passwords safe in an application that is designed to do just that.

Preserving our privacy on the web is vital in a Web 2.0 world. The internet is only as safe as we make it, so let’s make it safe.

Louise

Comment on The Password Post-It Conundrum by matt

matt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:02:54 +0000

somewhere on the web there is a very informative website detailing how to maintain complex passwords on a post it while keeping it secure. the basic process is this: if you’re password is jdsjf938Hh, you write it on a post-it jdAsjfA938Hh and keep it in your brain that whenever you have a capital A, you don’t type it. works great.

Comment on Screens, Screens, Screens by Frank Reynolds

Frank Reynolds — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:39:32 +0000

It’s interesting, I first noticed TV screens in gas stations in Cape Town, South Africa, when I was working there about five years ago. In fact, the film I was working on there, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, actually has a scene in it where poor people from the townships actually go to the gas station to watch the TV screen there as their entertainment! The content there was mostly commercials (which weren’t bad) and some African music videos.

I’m a New Yorker and don’t own a car, so the appearance of screens at gas stations here in the US passed me by.

Comment on Screens, Screens, Screens by Norman

Norman — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:44:22 +0000

EXACTLY right. There is so much content which is so much better than what I’m seeing. Much of this content has to work without sound — gas stations are so noisy — but that makes it even MORE important to have interesting visual content.