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TV Squad interviews Lisa Loeb

Posted Feb 23rd 2006 11:30AM by C.K. Sample, III

[Photo: Kevin Westenberg]
TV Squad's Joel Keller got a chance to chat on the phone with Lisa Loeb about dating, food, television, omelets, and why "What's it like to be Lisa Loeb?" is not a good question to ask Lisa Loeb.

Here's a quick excerpt to whet your appetite:

JK: Where do you feel the most anonymous, because you do have a distinctive look, Lisa, you've got your glasses... Where can you walk down the street and people aren't stopping you?

LL: It's pretty similar all the way around. Sometimes in Dallas, I don't know if people recognize me, because I've lived in Dallas growing up; I know a lot of people there, I have a big family and we all have a lot of friends, so people stop me because they went to my bat mitzvah. I know them, they're friends or they're friends with my aunt or uncle or whoever it is.

In LA, people... people are always trying to see who's walking in the door, but there are a lot of different people who are on TV live in LA, so I get recognized but it's not a huge deal.

And in New York, I can see people turning their heads, but again, it's New York, so you feel more anonymous there, because people are... I don't know, they're just normal and straightforward in New York, so right now it's just kind of like being in a party all the time, where people you know might come up and say hello. It's not a problem. It's OK.

It's an interesting interview, both because Lisa Loeb is an interesting person and because she keeps turning the interview around and asking Joel all sorts of questions. Make sure you Stay [sorry, couldn't resist] tuned for the next installment of the interview on Friday.

We're hiring a Preditor (combination Producer and Editor)

Posted Feb 21st 2006 9:00AM by C.K. Sample, III

This ad on craigslist los angeles just went live this morning, but I thought I'd repost it here in case anyone in the Los Angeles area is reading and is interested in the position:

Preditor: Producer/ Editor for Weblogs, Inc.

Weblogs, Inc. (http://www.weblogsinc.com) is searching for a combination producer / editor to work full time writing and developing online video and audio content for the network (both podcasts and video podcasts). Must be capable of scripting, planning, shooting, editing, and delivering content quickly and professionally to the Internet and in iPod and other PVP-compatible formats.

Contact C.K. Sample via email (ck at weblogsinc dot com) with subject line "Preditor Position", a cover letter, resume, and a link to both online writing sample (your blog will do) and some online sample of your video work.

Update: I'm already getting in some great submissions, but I just wanted to clarify that we're looking for a "one person band," jack-of-all-trades who can do all this work without the benefit of a full film crew and staff.

Blogging the Sundance Scene

Posted Jan 22nd 2006 7:45PM by C.K. Sample, III


We're here at Sundance Film Festival, meeting people, screening films, writing reviews, and conducting vodcast roundtables discussing all the happenings at this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Cinematical and Blogging Sundance are all over Sundance, and people are starting to notice. This Reuters / Hollywood Reporter article notes that "this year's Sundance marks a fascinating juncture as newly powerful blogs like http://www.Cinematical.com take on the likes of the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times."

We're also seeing a lot of positive response from the filmmakers, as many of them have commented on reading Cinematical as we hand out the t-shirts we brought to the festival. James Rocchi's review of the Beastie Boys' flick already received notice from the Beasties themselves as we've heard annecdotally that Adam Yauch (MCA) sent out an amazed email that there was already a review up yesterday evening, so briefly after the actual screening. It's live and fun and if you couldn't afford to make it here this year, check out what we're blogging over at Blogging Sundance to get the virtual experience as quickly as we can crank it out to you.

Here's a quick list of some of the reviews we've done already to get you started:

Engadget Chinese on Cableyoyo

Posted Dec 13th 2005 2:15PM by C.K. Sample, III

cable yo yoIn case you didn't know, we have several non-English language sites in the Weblogs, Inc. network, and even though I don't speak any of these languages (Wo ist Engadget Deutsch?), I like to look at the pictures on these sites every once in a while.

Engadget Chinese has a post up asking how would you change Engadget Chinese. Now, I don't know Chinese and the only reason I can guess that this is the subject of the post is because of the URL, which is in English. What caught my eye about this post was that it features a link to this previous post on the Cableyoyo electric line manager.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so if you, like me, don't read Chinese, you might find it interesting scanning the pictures in Engadget Chinese in comparison to those on Engadget. Then again you may not; however, I just wanted to point to this post, because I have a Cableyoyo and it rocks. Great cable organizer thingy.

As for how I'd change Engadget Chinese: I want an English translation of the site. ;-)

Blogging Baby Edubuntu review

Posted Dec 7th 2005 3:00PM by C.K. Sample, III

edubuntuJay Allen, over at Blogging Baby, has a great review up of Edubuntu, the designed-especially-for-kids variant of the Ubuntu flavor of Linux.

Jay decided to run the operating system through a little experiment to answer a few questions he had: "But how easy is Edubuntu to set up for the average, non-tech-savvy family? How easy it is for kids to use? Does it offer major advantages over using Windows XP? To answer these questions, I spent a night installing Edubuntu, and then let my children - eight-year-old Neve, six-year-old Jaxon, and four-year-old Veda - use and abuse it for a day. Throughout the whole process, I tried to act every bit like the average, low-tech parent, and not like the software developer I’ve been for the past 12 years."

Make sure you check out the full-review for all the details.

MetaNetwork News: New TV Shows on the iTMS

Posted Dec 6th 2005 4:00PM by C.K. Sample, III

alfred hitchcock presentsOne of the stories popping up on several of our blogs today is the recent arrival of new content from a variety of television networks on the iTunes Music Store: With iTunes releasing a backlog catalog of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with all the other shows, I'm sure someone over at Cinematical will have something to say about that great  director soon.

Cellular towers be gone!

Posted Dec 6th 2005 2:30PM by C.K. Sample, III

fake tree cellular towerMichael Sciannamea reports over at The Wireless Weblog about a new antennae diversity technology that could eliminate the need for cellphone towers.

Michael notes "In essence, the technology enables carriers to double the number of customers they serve with each mobile phone tower. "

Sounds good to us, although, we must admit that we're going to miss those really tall towers made up to look like gigantically fake trees.

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