profile of Nigeria’s film industry

from theage.com.au Nigeria becomes a B-movie factory Chike Bryan, the hapless director of “The Last Sacrifice,” had named his movie well. Plagued by technical glitches, filming had dragged into its third week – an eternity by Nigerian standards. The unpaid cast and crew were holding the executive producer for ransom in his stuffy hotel room. […]

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..Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run..

from Media Week Fox Adds Web Family Guy Run Fox will produce original episodes of it’s resurrected hit Family Guy exclusively for the Web sometime next year. Speaking at the UBS 33rd Annual Global Media Conference in New York, Ross Levinsohn, the president of Fox Interactive Media said that the original Family Guy episodes will […]

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New Orleans’s New Connection

from Washington Post New Orleans’s New Connection City-Owned WiFi System To Be Announced Today Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans will deploy the nation’s first municipally owned wireless Internet system that will be free for all users, part of an effort to jump-start recovery by making living and doing business in the city as attractive as possible. The […]

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kids love bloggin’, schools not happy

from WSJ.com Some Students Find Themselves In Principal’s Office Over Blog As parents wring their hands about Internet predators, many teens are worried about a different kind of online intruder: the school principal. Students are blogging about schoolyard crushes and feuds, posting gossip about classmates on social-networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com, and sharing their […]

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