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9 Things Web Series Producers Should Know | 93 Studios - Screening Room

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:40:20 -0700

From the page: "We watch a lot of films and web series here in the Screening Room, but since we�ll never manage to watch everything, every so often we try to reach into the community and find out what the filmmakers and creative types who produce all of this great content are watching. "

93 Studios - Your Source For Web Series, Short Films and Independent Video Content

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:21:40 -0700

Web Series, Short Films and Independent Web content!

93. Citizens As Budding Reporters And Editors (1999) | 93 Studios

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:03:51 -0700

From the page: "1999 doesn�t seem like so long ago but in Internet time it might as well be the beginning of the last Ice Age. In 1999, J.D. Lasica wrote what might be my favorite article in this story (which is why I saved it for last). He was speaking about citizen journalism from the other side of the last Internet bubble. He wasn�t informed by the rise of online advertising and its fall over the last year, he knew nothing about how deep of a wound sites like Craigslist and Monster would leave in the classified industry, he didn�t know about blogs and vlogs and Twitter."

85. Monster and the Boston Globe | 93 Studios

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:19:56 -0700

From the page: "In 1995, Jeff Taylor sat in front of a group of Boston Globe executives. He had an idea for a website, a job board, that would post help-wanted ads online. It was one of the first of its kind. What he wanted was $1 Million dollars in exchange for controlling interest in this venture.

He was going to call Monster Board."

HashLove. Birthday Cards for the Twitterverse &171; HashLove.com

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:17:58 -0700

Twitter cards, some of these are really entertaining.

The 20 Weirdest Zombie Movies Ever Made | 93 Studios

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:57 -0700

There have been a lot of Zombie movies made in this fair city and many of them would be considered strange. Some movies though push that boundary even further and become real works of Zombie art. These 20 movies are prime examples of just those sort of films.

28. The Development of Stories in Video Games | 93 Studios

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:40:13 -0700

From the page: "�oeOne of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else” �"Jinx Milea"

http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/why-free-thought-is-sexy-but-we-hate-it

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:57:30 -0700

From the page: "Social Media doesn�t like free thought. I would go as far as to say that we hate it. To understand why, I�d like to take you on a little trip back to your local High School. How are the two related?

Well, look closely, they actually have quite a bit in common."

Japan relaxes human stem-cell rules : Nature News

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:37:28 -0700

From the page: "On the surface the previous guidelines, set in 2001, were permissive. They allowed scientists to derive new human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines and research both home-grown and imported cell lines. But that could be done only after the research was approved, and the approval process was the stumbling block. Proposed projects needed to be approved twice �" first by a local institutional review board and then by a science-ministry committee. And researchers working on human ES cells had to use separate facilities from other stem-cell research."

16. Beware of Twist Endings | 93 Studios

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:36:26 -0700

From the page: "If done properly, a twist ending can be very effective. It provides the audience with a jolt at the end that gives them a reason to actually think about the story. The problem with the twist ending, however, is that it involves purposefully withholding key information from the audience in the hopes that the �oetwist” will make it worth it. This creates several potential issues . . ."