Metaweb: Creating the world’s searchable global brain

Metaweb: Creating the world’s searchable global brain Posted by Dan Farber @ 4:55 am One of the stealthy semantic Web startups, Metaweb Technologies revealed its product strategy. According to John Markoff’s New York Times story, Metaweb is developing Freebase, “a centralized repository that is more like a digital almanac,” in contrast to the distributed card […]

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To Join or not to Join? That is the Union Question.

It’s the ultimate “Catch-22” in our industry. “I need to be a member of a union to get this editor gig, but I need to have union editing gigs to get in the union.” Huh?!?!?! Here is a quote from the American Cinema Editors guild page, while not a union per se, it is a […]

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Motion Graphics Meets John Lennon

I was over at YouTube posting a new tutorial…. came across a great clip that mixes multiple animation styles… this is VERY cool. It’s nice to hear the man so off-the-cuff… yet wise. “In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in […]

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