Vidding Squee
1) Festivids is out! As usual a bunch of delightful items to sort through. My favorite so far is for the 1983 Pirates of Penzance film which is just perfect and would, I suspect, make anyone want to watch it. It reminded me in minutes of one of my most adored Festivids submission, the Hello Dolly! vid to "We've Got the Beat".
But there was a lot more! I was happy to see not one but two vids for Pitch, and it was so nice to discover that someone else even watched or enjoyed the show! They took different approaches and did both well.
Even people who haven't watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries would surely see the chemistry and potential of Jack and Phryne that's wonderfully captured in My Love.
Other vids I enjoyed included this wonderfully done vid for London Spy which is much more engaging than the canon itself and very well edited.
2) This report on malware and lack of performance by VPN services is worrying, but even more so that the authors fail to make any recommendations on VPN services with best practices.
3) Speaking of recommendations, this article discusses the language of recommendations and how it can lead us astray. But what really grabbed me was this statement:
"We’re doing some work on the language used in movies, for example. Might the certain words people use over time in movies lead those movies to be more or less successful, and can we predict that based on the language of those movies? And song lyrics: Can we predict how successful a song is going to be based on the lyrics contained in that song?"
That doesn't sound to me like it will lead anywhere good...
4) Apparently 2015 was the first year that music streaming became the dominant purchasing method, past downloading or physical formats. Then last year, subscription streaming services passed YouTube in usage. Supposedly they had an 80%+ jump which I find a little suspicious. Take a look at that graph -- that's a big jump in consumption and spending.
My only guess is that either people are developing a lot more disposable income or, possibly, tie-ins with cell phone companies where certain usage doesn't count against data limits means that it's more cost effective for them to pay for those data-free providers than to stream YouTube content. Video also grew, but not by nearly as much.
In other news digital album and single sales dropped but vinyl sales went up. You can access the whole report online.
5) I watched the latest Tarzan movie and was surprised it didn't do better in the theater. It was more interesting and less offensive than I expected. Not a good return for Burroughs' projects in the last decade, even if the movies themselves weren't the disaster that their box office would suggest.
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But there was a lot more! I was happy to see not one but two vids for Pitch, and it was so nice to discover that someone else even watched or enjoyed the show! They took different approaches and did both well.
Even people who haven't watched Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries would surely see the chemistry and potential of Jack and Phryne that's wonderfully captured in My Love.
Other vids I enjoyed included this wonderfully done vid for London Spy which is much more engaging than the canon itself and very well edited.
2) This report on malware and lack of performance by VPN services is worrying, but even more so that the authors fail to make any recommendations on VPN services with best practices.
3) Speaking of recommendations, this article discusses the language of recommendations and how it can lead us astray. But what really grabbed me was this statement:
"We’re doing some work on the language used in movies, for example. Might the certain words people use over time in movies lead those movies to be more or less successful, and can we predict that based on the language of those movies? And song lyrics: Can we predict how successful a song is going to be based on the lyrics contained in that song?"
That doesn't sound to me like it will lead anywhere good...
4) Apparently 2015 was the first year that music streaming became the dominant purchasing method, past downloading or physical formats. Then last year, subscription streaming services passed YouTube in usage. Supposedly they had an 80%+ jump which I find a little suspicious. Take a look at that graph -- that's a big jump in consumption and spending.
My only guess is that either people are developing a lot more disposable income or, possibly, tie-ins with cell phone companies where certain usage doesn't count against data limits means that it's more cost effective for them to pay for those data-free providers than to stream YouTube content. Video also grew, but not by nearly as much.
In other news digital album and single sales dropped but vinyl sales went up. You can access the whole report online.
5) I watched the latest Tarzan movie and was surprised it didn't do better in the theater. It was more interesting and less offensive than I expected. Not a good return for Burroughs' projects in the last decade, even if the movies themselves weren't the disaster that their box office would suggest.
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