TROPFEST FINALIST
Heartfelt congrats to Luke, Nicola and James whose film 'Australian Summer' is a finalist in the 2005 Tropfest Short Film Festival. Tropfest is the world’s largest short film festival and there was a record number of entries this year - a whopping 792 shorts!! Blimey... I can still remember when the films (usually about a dozen or so) were shown on two monitors in the Tropicana Café on Victoria Street, coz that's just how old I AM!! For a full program of this year's event to be held in Sydney's Domain on Sunday 27 February, check out the official site: http://www.tropfest.com
MP3TUNES
People will pay for convenience, not access. Online businesses are finally starting to wake up to this! Michael Robertson, former MP3.com chief, speaks out about online music sites on the eve of launching MP3tunes which imposes no DRM restrictions on subscribers, see article here: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1758970,00.asp
IS MOD FILMS FRIENDLY ENOUGH?
Michela and I have been discussing at some length the 'look' of MOD Films to outsiders who may be approaching us for the first time, as well as ways of communicating not just what our product DOES, but where we're going with it in general, via a separate style of branding for both MOD Films.com and MOD Films.net. If you would like to add your input in this discussion (regardless of what department and area you're working in) please feel free to have your say in this forum thread: http://modfilms.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54
REGARDING AUTO ANNOUNCEMENTS
Since a few of you have been asking.. this is the status of 'Auto Announcements' as it stands in MOD Films:
* We send out a weekly newsletter each Wed.
* Every 30 mins the headlines are updated across all systems here:
http://modfilms.com/teamsanctuary/news.html
* To set up a newsfeed to your own systems to track specific areas, contact Michela for tech support.
* If you post to a discussion forum, by default, you will receive an email when someone replies to it.
UBER-GEEK QUOTE OF THE WEEK
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one." - Bill Gates