links for 2007-12-18

• Seed Conference | Chicago | 18 January 2008
  This isn’t about theory, it’s about practice.
  (tags: conference 2008)
• Hammer comes back from dead – Entertainment News, Film News, Media – Variety
  LONDON — The recently revived Hammer Films will produce its first feature in three decades and distribute it via social networking site MySpace’s Web TV arm.
  (tags: franchise longtail iptv episodic)
• From The Head Of Zeus Jones: Engagement: entertainment or utility?
  Communications are supposed to exist in order to create, communicate and build value for businesses, not for themselves. However, great entertainment rarely asks you to do something else as a result.
  (tags: zeusjones marketing engagement transaction)
• The programmer as journalist: a Q&A with Adrian Holovaty
  meaning at the point of production
  (tags: authorship production distribution)
• evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
  Good thinking for transaction design
  (tags: startup strategy entrepreneurship product evaluation business idea ideas)
• BRAND CONTRO BRAND
  The popular Italian version of my Brand vs. Brand game on Ning.
  (tags: brand game ning)
• How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs — prepublication law paper – Boing Boing
  Fab. Not read it, but it’s gold.
  (tags: business legal management music sony bmg)
• Can Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together? – GigaOM
  Audio will be the ultimate resource in the information-grey market.
  (tags: audio VoIP data application platform)
• The CommonCraft Show | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English
  Nice.
  (tags: tutorial web2.0 technology education video)
• The last episode of Ricky Gervais’ Extras has a message… (kottke.org)
  ‘I’m an entertainer, it’s in my blood.’ Yeah, it’s in my blood because a real job’s too hard.”
  (tags: media content editorial actor)