We’re excited to return to SXSW for a third year and unveil our exciting plans for the future of digital publishing, gaming and more,” said Dan Buckley, President, TV, Publishing and Brand Management, Marvel Entertainment. “This is our biggest SXSW yet—with more panels, more news and more exclusives than we’ve ever brought to the show before!
From a Marvel PR announcement of the latest Marvel SXSW panel next month.
Worth remembering: Of last year’s three big announcements, the weekly Earth’s Mightiest Show apparently ceased production after just three episodes, the free #1 ComiXology deal crashed ComiXology’s servers and ended up having to be paused and staggered, and Project Gamma has yet to materialize, a year later.
But, hey. I’m sure this panel will get lots of headlines and that’s the main thing, right?
Netflix Introduces New ‘Browse Endlessly’ Plan
This Onion skit hits a little bit too close to home.
I found two very talented editors who worked from morning Eastern time to late afternoon Pacific time. Every story went through them before being published. They were fantastic.
They also slowed the publishing process to a screeching near-halt. And, even more importantly: No. One. Cared.
Hiring them was part of a larger, and ultimately failed, experiment to bring magazine-style editing and quality control to tech blogging. We would write fewer, better stories. Our copy would gleam. Readers would swoon.
It was a train wreck. Traffic plummeted. By half. Literally, month-to-month traffic cut in half. As we tried to right the sinking ship the first thing I did was fire the copyeditors. During the eight-or-so months they worked for us no one had ever commented on our clean copy. No one told us they came to our site because we had fewer typos than TechCruch. I saw the difference. It’s not that readers didn’t, they just didn’t care.
Abraham Wyatt argues that websites don’t need copy editors.
I feel like we keep seeing more proof that the Internet en masse punishes that which we’d traditionally describe as “good journalism.” I’m still trying to work out if that means that it’s not worth trying at all, or merely that no-one’s discovered the right model yet.
Have you seen House of Cards, and if so what do you think of it?
Midway through the second season as I type.
I like it – I found myself OD’ing on the first season, and setting it aside about halfway through before returning and hungrily devouring the rest of it. This second season is… interesting?
It feels like there’s been a shift that the writers haven’t quite managed to come to terms with, with Frank in the VP seat. There’s no throughline like the Russo plot of the first season, and Frank’s new duties mean that he seems too removed from the tightly focused scrum of party politics the year before.
Tonally, it feels like it’s lurched more towards dark comedy – while I admired the “You probably think I’ve forgotten about you” monologue at the end of the first episode, everything feels a little bit more cartoonish this time around, and it was hardly the least cartoonish show to begin with.
Overall, I like it, and I’m going to keep watching. But this year feels problematic in a way that the first didn’t.
SAVAGE WOLVERINE 19
ISSUE # 19 – Gail Simone (W) • TBA (A)
COVERS BY Shane Davis
ISSUE #19 –
• He’s the best there is at what he does – but what if he has a bad day?
• Logan collides head first with some bad luck on the worst possible day. Can Jubilee lend a hand?
• It’s Wolverine’s no good, very bad, extremely awful day by Gail Simone (Batgirl) and Somebody!
“By Gail Simone (Batgirl) and Somebody!”
Yes, I wonder why artists may feel like they’re being devalued by the Big Two these days. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
(From here.)