more Stross goodness on its way

from Charlie’s Diary … July will see the publication of my next SF novel from Ace and Orbit, “Glasshouse”, a psychological thriller among the posthuman survivors of a vicious civil war within the human civilization that emerges from the setting of “Accelerando”, hundreds of years hence. … Looking forward to 2007 and beyond, I’ve got […]

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ads getting ever more personal

from USATODAY.com Fine-tuned ad technologies expected to advance in 2006 BOSTON — MobiTV built its business by sending TV broadcasts to cellphones. People willing to stare at the small screen for extended periods can tune in channels such as ESPN and MSNBC. But MobiTV recently began doing more than just relaying the signals. Now the […]

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the rise of the “telenovelas”..

from Foreign Policy Romancing the Globe … Accounts of the global impact of Latin American soap operas, or telenovelas, are now legion. In post-communist Russia, the Mexican hit Los Ricos Tambien Lloran (The Rich Also Cry) became the country’s top-rated show; roughly 70 percent of the Russian population, more than 100 million people, tuned in […]

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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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