Someone asked me why I didn't cover the end of Smallville at Fan To Pro. Smallville, after all was a decade-long television show based on comic book icon Superman, and probably sounds like something worth covering. That was a great question, and frankly, I felt it deserved it's own post.
Video, Film, and Television
I Have a Job, They Don’t: Fansourcing
You know those friends and fellow fans that are incredibly talented but don't have work? Yeah, I thought so. You wonder what you can do for them when they are so talented, so gifted, yet are looking for work. It's easy to wonder since they're so good at what they do, you're left wondering what you can do.
What you can do is give these talented people a chance to use their talent for you – and thus give them a chance to earn money, build skills, and gain another reference (that's you here).
Video Companies: What Keeps You On Top – Or Off The Bottom?
We've been discussing the video wars here (part of the Everything Wars) for quite some time–indeed it seems we started pretty much around the blogs founding. Now, years later, though Netflix still dominates all there are quite a few services – Hulu, Vudu, Amazon.com, possibly even Facebook, and so on. It seems a lot of people want a piece of the video market, even if they're not quite sure why, how, or what they want.
Now, as noted, Netflix still dominates, and if I may say, rightly so – they've been at this for years and did a good job. But nothing is forever and there's a lot of competition, lots of current and future legal battles, and always the chance for people to do stupid or smart things.