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Look at T4 [on Channel 4] – it went away, now there is very little youth programming going on. BBC3 was something that … of course there was the odd questionable title, as there is with any channel, but it was really specifically targeted at making documentaries for young people.

It was educating them, nurturing them, saying you are important, we are gifting you with knowledge that will arm you in later life. We are not doing that, we are expecting them to find it for themselves and everything is online now. Everyone is becoming very separated in the next generation, chatting on Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming isolated.

That’s Jameela Jamil, talking about the closing of BBC3 in the UK. I’ve no real experience of the channel, and so no real opinion about whether or not it’s a loss, but the idea of a generation being “abandoned” to the Internet is something that sticks in my head – I’m not sure whether or not I agree with the premise, or even if the idea that the Internet is less suited to educate people on life than television, but it sticks inside nonetheless, poking and prodding towards a question I haven’t managed to form yet.
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Look at T4 [on Channel 4] – it went away, now there is very little youth programming going on. BBC3 was something that … of course there was the odd questionable title, as there is with any channel, but it was really specifically targeted at making documentaries for young people.

It was educating them, nurturing them, saying you are important, we are gifting you with knowledge that will arm you in later life. We are not doing that, we are expecting them to find it for themselves and everything is online now. Everyone is becoming very separated in the next generation, chatting on Facebook and Twitter. They are becoming isolated.

That’s Jameela Jamil, talking about the closing of BBC3 in the UK. I’ve no real experience of the channel, and so no real opinion about whether or not it’s a loss, but the idea of a generation being “abandoned” to the Internet is something that sticks in my head – I’m not sure whether or not I agree with the premise, or even if the idea that the Internet is less suited to educate people on life than television, but it sticks inside nonetheless, poking and prodding towards a question I haven’t managed to form yet.
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Tribune Digital Ventures bought ratings resource TV by the Numbers for an undisclosed sum and hopes to parlay its information into additional revenue streams.

Graham McKenna, the company’s vp of marketing and communications, told Adweek that it is considering the possibility of selling the TV metrics from the site to industry insiders. Tribune Digital Ventures is also looking at expanding TV by the Numbers to include information on how social media influences people to watch certain shows.

Something about this feels significant, especially in the light of TelevisionWithoutPity going away. I wonder who owns BoxOfficeMojo, and whether or not someone’s going to buy that soon?
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Freelance Like a Rockstar – ECCC 2014

Freelance Like a Rockstar – ECCC 2014

Erika Moen, Amy Falcone, Lucy Bellwood, Dylan Meconis, and Steve Lieber discuss the ins and outs of freelancing in the creative world at ECCC 2014.

Relevant to my interests because I am a freelancer, but also because all of these people are fucking fantastic (Note: I don’t actually know Amy, but I am assuming she’s fucking fantastic because of the company she’s keeping here and because of her work.)

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It’s an EW blog featuring superfans with passion and unique voices. Our editors have invited a select group of contributors who aren’t satisfied to merely watch TV– they are driven to post and share about it. This beta site is a pilot project, the start of a community we plan to grow, with your help, into a fun place to talk TV. Join the conversation!

From the EW page announcing the new Content Farm approach.

As if the “write our content for free because we’re awesome and so are you and unpaid work is the best work!” thing wasn’t bad enough, the “superfans” thing really sets my teeth on edge. Fandom isn’t a competitive sport, for fuck’s sake.

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So what happens to the huge amount of content in the archives of both DailyCandy and TWoP? It will all be saved in the digital ether, but not be available to the public.

Television Without Pity is closing down, and content from the site will apparently not remain available as a result. That’s a lot of content; I can’t quite imagine being those writers and seeing all that work just disappear to all intents and purposes. It’s been bad enough when I stop and think about the amount of stuff I’ve written for sites like io9 and Techland that are pretty much closed off from me these days, but at least it’s still out there.
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EW also is eschewing the current trend toward paying writers for clicks (at least initially). Some bloggers will be paid, but EW isn’t “putting a specific bounty on traffic,” EW editor Matt Bean said. Others will be compensated in the form of prestige, access to the brand’s editors and a huge potential readership audience via Google Hangouts and its SiriusXM show.

Great! Entertainment Weekly is going down to “Will you blog for exposure?” road. That’s just wonderful.
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The character, Snake Eyes, shall never be depicted or described as a fan of the New York Yankees.

One of the content guidelines for the GI Joe franchise on Kindle Worlds, Amazon’s monetizing fan fic program.