Interesting Craigslist article

Ordinarily, a company that showed such complete disdain for the normal rules of business would be vulnerable to competition, but craigslist has no serious rivals.

Widescreen vs pan and scan

Animation from college..

Here's one of our goofy animations. For every minute of video it usually took 2 hours shooting and 2 hours editing.

Reaction Paper #1

Here are the readings:

http://www.slate.com/id/2205121/

http://www.slate.com/id/2187501/

http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/feeling-lucky/2008/12/11/hulu-whoop

Here's the topic: I assume most of you have visited YouTube. Maybe less people have heard of Hulu.com. You might want to check it out right now. Ok. Done? Why do you think Hulu is more profitable? Will YouTube start to become profitable for Google? Would you continue to watch YouTube if it had commercials? Would you rather watch TV or Hulu? Will sites like Hulu be the future of TV?

Try to use examples from the reading to make your point. You have about 500-700 words. You can go longer if you want. This isn't as formal as a research paper, but I still expect complete sentences and grammar.

Remember, it's due by midnight on Thursday Sept 3. You can turn it in during class or email it to me before the due date.

The grading of course is subjective, but the more thought and insight you put into your paper the better. If you throw it together with a lot of filler and not much substance, don't expect too high a grade.

Let me know if you have any questions. Remember to think about what the media will be like in 20 years.

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