Rubénerd :)

Yes yes I know it’s painful post to read (ze grammar goggles, zey do nothing!!!), but they make a good point.

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Just saw the Singapore preview screening of James Cameron’s Avatar. Its now 1am (hence the timestamp of this post showing Thursday) and I have to get up early in the morning so I’ll be brief, but my initial impression can be summarised as: whoa.

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I’m socially awkward, anxious, terribly shy and I tend to obsess about obscure and unconventional things, but I was like that before I started blogging! That notwithstanding, Dave Winer has an excellent post on Scripting News about the stereotypes surrounding bloggers in Hollywood movies.

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Pardon the French, but it’s now official if we didn’t already suspect it: the people in charge of old media companies are… well, morons. According to Current.com (thanks to @Tarale for the link), Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton had this to say about the internet:

"I’m a guy who doesn’t see anything good having come from the Internet," said Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive officer Michael Lynton. "Period."

I was going to launch into my own detailed rebuttal discussing how the internet has reduced the barriers to entry for so many creative people and businesses around the world that could not have had their material published and sold before, but why do it when someone else has already said it better. From Slarabee in the comments section:

Of course he does see anything good coming from the internet. Information should only be for those that can afford to buy it, control it and use it to make more money and screw the masses.

If people like Mr Lynton are representing their way of thinking, traditional media companies are in an even more disastrous shape than I ever could have imagined.

Pardon the French again, but… what a jackarse!