This is the second part in a four part series looking at the extraordinary popularity of the vampire genre, Dracula being the subject of more films than any other fictional character. The four parts (use the free subscription to get subsequent parts automatically) are:
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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 15, 2011
By any conventional measure Agora the film sucks. There’s no onscreen sex, the good guys variously die and are disillusioned at the end, it’s centred on an unknown philosopher played by Rachel Weisz, and the underlying romance is a story of unrequited love.
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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 8, 2011
Over the last couple of years there has increasing interest in the concept of curation, the idea that as the amount of content on the web expands exponentially, it may not be the availability of the content itself, but how it is organised and prioritized for you that matters (check out Google Trends on the growing use of the term ”curation”).
Posted under Cliche watch, Kewl, Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on November 27, 2010
This is the first part in a four part series looking at the extraordinary popularity of the vampire genre, Dracula being the subject of more films than any other fictional character. The four parts (use the free subscription to get subsequent parts automatically) are:
Posted under Cliche watch, Reviews
This post was written by @Drivelry on July 15, 2010
With the aid of the public domain Calibre e-book management application, which enables you to automatically subscribe to any news website (via RSS) and the increasing prevalence of the open (non DRM) EPUB electronic book formats that you can dump Adobe Acrobat PDFs to, you may find that books are the last thing you read on your e-book. Let’s face it, paperbacks are easily available. Where e-books really come into their own (assuming you’ve installed Calibre) is in pulling down content from the web (and making it comfortable to read anywhere without a computer), content you normally cannot get in hardcopy unless you want to run your laser printer overtime. Documents and news content like:
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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 28, 2010
Amidst the turmoil in the newspaper publishing market there is one big problem for journalists leaving the safe-ish harbour of their big name publications and starting to experiment out on their own (if you are still wondering why you should be doing this read this as to why your safe harbour aint safe).
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This post was written by @Drivelry on January 17, 2010
In Drivelry’s continuing mission to convert the obscure into ’scure’, it is remarkable how some movies do so well at the box office and others do so undeservedly badly.
A great case in point is the film “The Jane Austen Book Club”. Despite the title you really don’t have to know anything about Austen to appreciate this film.
Posted under Kewl, Reviews, Unanswerable questions
This post was written by @Drivelry on August 18, 2009