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Ten Things Dance Companies Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Talking About in ‘10
Ten Things Dance Companies Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Talking About in ‘10
2010 promises to be the beginning of a new age for the dance field, and great and wide reaching opportunities become available to even the newest of dance companies. But, once these doors open, it remains to be seen how many companies will have the infrastructure required to walk through them. Here are...
Dance/USA conference - “If you don’t have good video, you’re dead”
Dance/USA conference - “If you don’t have good video, you’re dead”
The Red One Camera System, http://www.red.com Videographers and dance film makers should be quite pleased to read the above, especially because they were not spoken by me, but by Alistair Spaulding of Sadler’s Wells as part of his plenary speech on Saturday. The importance of video was a theme...
Twittering from Dance/USA Conference
Twittering from Dance/USA Conference
The Dance/USA conference kicks off in Houston tomorrow night, and like responsible social media enthusiasts, we’re going to be twittering/tweeting from the event. Or, as some of our content partners have called it “twitting”, “tweetering”, “teetering”, or “twatting”. To...
TenduTV - Arriving soon at 35 million televisions!
TenduTV - Arriving soon at 35 million televisions!
And before we even got around to discussing it, the number grew by another 100,000. It will still be another few weeks before we’re up and running with this new distribution, but details will come soon. Did we mention something about HD content? We didn’t? Hmmm…
What Did You Learn from the Facebook TOS Controversy?
What Did You Learn from the Facebook TOS Controversy?
I know what we learned. Absolutely nothing. But that’s because we read the Terms of Service wherever we have content, even simple promotional content. It’s why, prior to the change, that we had still photos on our Facebook page, but no video. We may be bringing the dance world full on into...
Catching Up on CES - Sling “Best of Show” with 922 DVR
Catching Up on CES - Sling “Best of Show” with 922 DVR
APAP wasn’t the only conference in high gear last week. While our content partners were prepping for their showcases, our distribution partners were strutting their stuff at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Taking home the coveted “Best of Show” in the “Home Video”...
SlingPlayer Mobile for Blackberry going to beta + more
SlingPlayer Mobile for Blackberry going to beta + more
SlingPlayer Mobile for Blackberry coming December 30 [from Engadget Mobile] SlingPlayer Mobile on Blackberry Pearl (Did we mention TenduTV in beta on Sling.com?) Analog Shutoff - 60 days and counting, and few dial changes expected in the home stretch. [from Engadget HD] Netflix streaming, live on TiVo,...
Dance Tickets (and iPod downloads) to be Taxed by Albany?
Dance Tickets (and iPod downloads) to be Taxed by Albany?
Governor David Patterson is sabre-rattling, having released a state budget and tax “austerity” plan that adds a 4% sales tax to basically just about everything once can do for enjoyment and relaxation. The proposal adds the tax to digital downloads, taxi rides, gym memberships, cable and...
The End of Print?
The End of Print?
Bad news for the news is looking to be the story of the week:   Tribune to file for Bankruptcy? New York Times is pawning its building On to happier things: Netflix goes live on TiVo a bit earlier than expected Misnomer streaming live from the Joyce Soho on December 14th The Home of the Garden of...
Remainders for 11/24
Remainders for 11/24
The NFL is going to be doing test broadcasts to movie theaters in 3D Misnomer’s Audience Engagement Platform gets NY Times Lovin’ (and we like what we read) Legislative gridlock saves NYS arts grants for 4Q08, FY09 still looking to be ugly. Movmnt posts their summer articles (including article...

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