Sunday, March 18, 2007

The Experimental Room Into The East. Features: Green Man (Love 'em) Cargo Cult (excellent) Marti Walker (Beautiful) Liquid Blue (Another fav) [The Experimental Room] 3:29:06 PM

Podcast: The Cartoonist Talks to Githead, Part #2 The Cartoonist talks to Githead, Part #2.. In the second part we're talking mostly about Rotterdam, about the new album, and about the Internet. In fact, it's Colin Newman who's doing most of the talking, which I really enjoyed. In Part #3, which will follow next weekend, we'll talk about Wire, Ratinger Hof, MySpace, Lomography, and Jürgen Engler. You can subscribe to my podcasts right here in iTunes. Alternatively, download the extended podcast or listen to the boring MP3 file without all the fab pictures. Some more Githead-related links: The Githead Homepage Githead on flickr Posteverything And now enjoy the new podcast. As always: many thanks to Colin & Malka. Githead: official press photo. Featured songs are all ©2007 by Githead and swim~ Records. All tracks are used with explicit permission by Colin Newman and Malka Spigel. The Cartoonist Talks © 2007 by Ralf Zeigermann. [The Cartoonist] 10:53:48 AM

300 Movie Expo WB Goes Virtual with the 300 Movie Expo. In anticipation of the worldwide release of the epic action adventure 300 , Warner Bros. Pictures launched an immersive 3-D exposition within the fast-growing online community known as Second Life. A live Q&A with the film's director, Zack Snyder, award-winning graphic novelist Frank Miller, and the film's stars Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and Rodrigo Santoro, kicked off the month-long 3-D exposition on Friday, March 16, 2007. Following the press event, the 300 Movie Expo is now open and available to any of the free service's 4.6 million users. ["SuperHeroHype.com - 5 most recent stories"] 9:42:36 AM

Jubii / Lycos Europe Lycos Europe To Launch in U.S. Under Jubii Name. An interesting but ultimately minor move from Lycos Europe, the independent company (not part of Lycos USA....partly owned by Bertelsmann of Germany and Telefonica of Spain). It cannot enter U.S. using its own once-famous name, as Lycos U.S. is here, and now owned by Korean portal company Daum. So it is using the brand and services of Jubii, its Danish search and community business, and will launch here in a month or so, reports IHT. The service combines search, e-mail, chat, photo and file storage, phone texting, blogging, Internet phoning and other Web 2.0 type service. Lycos U.S. here partly positions itself similarly, so will be interesting to see how that plays out. Lycos Europe claims 31 million unique users on sites it owns as well as partner sites; about half of its users are in Britain, Germany and France, with the rest scattered around the world. Interestingly, Lycos Europe has had a single CEO throughout its 10-year history, rare for an online consumer service...Christoph Mohn is the CEO and part of the family that runs Bertelsmann, the media giant that owns Random House, Gruner + Jahr, RTL and part of Lycos Europe. His parents, Liz and Reinhard Mohn, are the driving forces on the company's supervisory board, which Christoph Mohn just joined last month. There is a line of thought that Bertelsmann needs the company for its eventual Internet strategy, and this would possibly have implications in U.S. as well. [PaidContent] 9:33:03 AM