Shooting People » Web2.0 http://shootingpeople.org/blog Shooting People : Independent Filmmakers Network Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TOOLS Blog: Resources Filmmakers Can Use http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/tools-blog-resources-filmmakers-can-use/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/tools-blog-resources-filmmakers-can-use/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:05:42 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=505 ...]]> Just a heads up that I am also blogging over on the Shooting People TOOLS blog about the new(ish) digital, webbified world of production and distribution. Check it out for a link to download the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted book of contacts for filmmakers making shorts (including some tips for filmmaking in a Web2.0 world written by moi), plus lots of other good stuff: most recently links to the Peter Broderick indieWIRE articles on new distribution strategies and The Film Panel Notetaker’s coverage of Independent Film Week. I’m always keen to hear about good blogs/websites/conferences etc. covering the intersection of film and the web so please leave a comment if you have any suggestions/tips.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/09/tools-blog-resources-filmmakers-can-use/feed/ 0 Web2.0 in Plain English http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:28:56 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=90 If you need a little help sorting out your RSS feeds from your Wikis then check out the videos on The CommonCraft Show. Lee LeFever explains the basics in a wonderfully clear way and will get you started with some suggested links to try out. Topics include:

Twitter
Social Networking
Social Bookmarking
Blogs
Wikis
RSS

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/web20-in-plain-english/feed/ 2 Do you Tweet? http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/do-you-tweet/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/do-you-tweet/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:27:33 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/?p=86 Is anyone using Twitter actively? Do you find it useful? Do you find out about cool stuff through Twitter? Or is it just more noise, less signal?

Personally I’m a little addicted but I’m not sure if it’s a good, productive addiction or a bad, waste-of-time, distracting addiction. It’s a little like being at a big dinner party and trying to have lots of different conversations at the same time and never quite getting to the point.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/04/do-you-tweet/feed/ 7 Reaching out across the web http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/02/reaching-out-across-the-web/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/02/reaching-out-across-the-web/#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:58:02 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/2008/02/18/reaching-out-across-the-web/ ...]]> I wanted to link to this post from Internet Duct Tape not because you will necessarily be interested in his links (although you may be!) but because it’s a great example of how you can cross-post across various social web-oriented websites to spread your links far and wide. In this case to delicious, stumbleupon, Twitter and Tumblr.

One of the things I would say about all these sites is that it really helps to use them to get a sense of how they work. Reading the “about” section isn’t always that helpful. I thought Twitter was for twits until a friend showed me how he was using it to really participate in a community of film geeks in San Francisco and beyond.

]]> http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/02/reaching-out-across-the-web/feed/ 0 Collaboration – how the world is changing http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/02/collaboration-how-the-world-is-changing/ http://shootingpeople.org/blog/2008/02/collaboration-how-the-world-is-changing/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:58 +0000 ingrid http://shootingpeople.org/blog/category/fromthehip/2008/02/14/collaboration-how-the-world-is-changing/ ...]]> I’ve been thinking a lot about participatory culture recently as I’ve been desperately trying to get up to speed with all the exciting things happening online. Just watched the video below from a TED talk by Howard Rheingold. It’s fascinating to think about how so many of the new systems and sites use collaboration to work – in fact the more people that use them the better they work for everybody – from the folksonomy of tagging to the hive mind of Wikipedia to the server network of BitTorrent. I feel like a hopeless dilettante in this arena but I love it all too. Here’s the vid:

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