Category Archives: Writing

Google Gives Up Copyright to Everything You See & Type (Again)

By Gib | Thursday, September 4, 2008

Google was at it again!
Google released a new product — its Chrome browser — and claimed rights to everything you could read or type into or submit through it.
This means… Owning your Tweets. Your blog posts. Your emails.
Crazy, huh?
Then Google caught its gaffe, and rescinded that part of the license.
Oddly, Google did this [...]

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Battlestar Galactica — the last season? Or The Last Supper?

By Gib | Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What the frak?!? Coasting down Melrose Avenue this morning, I looked up and saw this image.
Does it look familiar to you? It did to me, too. Let’s compare this great billboard with the famous image it’s inspired by after the jump.

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Andrew Sullivan Takes a Vote on Comments

By Gib | Monday, March 3, 2008

Über-blogger, author & tv commentator Andrew Sullivan asked his readers to vote for whether they would like comments or not. He advised his readers (I’m one) that they could vote more than once if they felt strongly:
“You can vote any number of times, so those who care strongly about this - pro and con [...]

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The AMPTP’s How-to Guide for Scabbing

By Gib | Sunday, January 6, 2008

The AMPTP website is worth a few posts. No one has written about the subtext of everything on there.
Here’s a first stab.
The questions they put on their Frequently Asked Questions were surprising to me. I went to their site to find their side of the story right away. My questions, as a [...]

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Harry Potter’s plot thickens - literally

By Gib | Thursday, December 27, 2007

Each book seems thicker than the last when in the same box.
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Mainstream Media Outlets, Mainstream Media Writers — but still blogs

By Gib | Saturday, November 10, 2007

Peter Tolan is writing a blog about the Writers Guild of America strike.
What’s fascinating for me about his being asked — and his writing the blog — is how blogging can be simply a platform for internet publishing… but it can also be about the singularity of voice.
Tolan’s blog feels like a blog in its [...]

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Big Shots — ABC Publishes Pilot Script

By Gib | Thursday, October 25, 2007

ABC believes their viewers can read. And would like to read a pilot script.

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Quick Notes on Writing the TV Drama Series Seminar

By Gib | Thursday, September 13, 2007

Her book became the bible for TV writers
The woman who wrote the book on how to write TV drama has seen it adopted as the bible at networks, studios, and writers rooms on the best TV shows.
So why did she throw out half the book for her second edition?

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extremely brief episodes (2007-09-11)

By Gib | Tuesday, September 11, 2007

One of my tweets was a neat moment in the day… Spotting Perez Hilton at the screening or after party for his show’s debut (Perez Says) on VH1 on September 11th.
See the tweet under Celebrity for the in-the-moment point of view after the jump.
Sadly, I did not reconnect with him last night because I had [...]

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extremely brief episodes (2007-09-08)

By Gib | Saturday, September 8, 2007

Highlight of the Day —
buying the 2nd edition of Pamela Douglas’ fantastic book, Writing the TV Drama Series.

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