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Jossed in time
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Scott Ellington Jul. 17, 2008.

From Behind the Media Blackout

Started Jun. 13, 2008

Patric Verrone on NetworkNeutrality - 6/4/08 interview at theStream

Started Jun. 6, 2008

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Let It Ride

Forty-eight $50 win-tickets on the 3 horse in the 7th race print with an erotic ferocity that makes a couple of Luckys afterward mandatory. This entire film is toasted.

Posted on December 6, 2008 at 6:01pm —

Scott Ellington

The Last Mile

It's an oddly pregnant phrase I encountered while wading lip-deep into the murky torrent of information and sewage that surrounds the network neutrality controversy. "Lip-deep" is a manner of speaking by means of which I mean to communicate the desire to have said nothing while fairly-relentlessly reading to learn how to sift the sense from bilateral propaganda; decks awash with foul-smelling water...building on the intriguing premise that information in this new age is better-envisioned as a fl… Continue

Posted on July 12, 2008 at 8:00pm —

Scott Ellington

War, Inc.

Having found John Cusack's blog at Huffington Post, I entered the theater this afternoon expecting to find similarities between this film and Iron Man. The baseline pitch for both films is reasonably similar; an engaging young American man finds himself in a fictitious, wartorn, MiddleEastern nation and Finds himself disaffected from his ongoing affiliations; inevitably changing sides from worse to better.
While that synopsis says little-or-nothing about either film, I have to add that… Continue

Posted on June 14, 2008 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Scott Ellington

My DTV Transition

8½ months from now, we're told, analog broadcast television in these United States ceases.
A month ago I geared up in anticipation of the 2/18/2009 digital transition, even though I use my tv (mostly) as an alarm clock in the morning and a sleeping pill at night.
Having acquired both my set and vcr in 2001, neither is equipped with a digital tuner, so a set-top box was necessary, and a digital antenna turned out to be mandatory. RadioShack provided both for $60 for each, and I installed them bot… Continue

Posted on June 4, 2008 at 8:30am —

Scott Ellington

IRONyMAN

I very much enjoyed this "simple" tale of one man's redemption, in which the pampered product of fabulous wealth and advantage finds himself to be contemptible while he gazes into the bottomless heart of darkness and he recognizes the significance of his own contribution to the evil that men do. Then rededicates his life to reversing the mischief.
The thumbnail of the film leads the audience to anticipate yet another modernist celebration of technological progress, and there is no… Continue

Posted on May 19, 2008 at 8:00am —

Scott Ellington's Videos

Some Resources

http://www.freepress.net/about_us
Braking Big Media.

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/OL070391.html
Oren Lyons - The Faithkeeper
Interviewed by Bill Moyers 1991 July 03

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/prime-time_transition.html
M.I.T. Communications Forum

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums.html
M.I.T Communications Forum Archive

http://www.henryjenkins.org/index.html
Confessions of an Aca-Fan

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/383/
David Milch interview conducted by David Thorburn

http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/
Convergence Culture Consortium

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/03/wolff200803
Michael Wolff for Vanity Fair - extremely morbid optimism

http://weblogs.variety.com/wga_strike_blog/2008/02/united-hollywoo.html
Re-inception of the ReWriters' Strike; Death to bad notes.

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At 1:48pm on June 20, 2008, Chas Andres said…
Thanks for the link! I am a huge fan of Jane Espenson - both her teleplays and blog are of the highest quality and have been invaluable to my journey so far.
At 8:22am on June 20, 2008, Scott Ellington said…
http://union.unitedhollywood.com/2008/04/letter-from-pat.html

A means to return from the social to the main/blog side of this site.
At 9:20am on March 13, 2008, Scott Ellington said…
Oren Lyons:
A Tree of Peace, a Great Peace, a great law. It's a spiritual law. He said, `When you become afraid or when you become weak or when you become not able to carry,' he says, `it's the spiritual law that will stiffen your spine.' He said, `That's where your strength is. So you must make your laws in accordance with those spiritual laws and then you will survive.'

He called that council the Council of the Good Minds. He said the Hoyanni -- that's what it means, the all-good, the good, peacemakers. So that's what he set up. And when he uprooted this great tree and he asked the Nations to come forward and cast their weapons of war, he says, `We now do away with the warriors and we do away with the war chiefs. And in their place we plant the Council of the Good Minds who will now counsel for the welfare of the people.' And he said, `I shall not leave you defenseless.' And he gave us a spiritual strength, Oyenkwaohweh, the Great Tobacco. He said, `This will be your medium for communication, directly.'
 
 
 

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