Word 261: Chary

Of course, advocates of the free, independent press are rightfully chary about wholesale deregulation, but John Morton, the eminent newspaper analyst, said that individual newspaper companies can’t solve this problem by working alone.

chary (adj) : characterized by great cautious and wariness [syn: cagey, cagy] – source: United, Newspapers May Stand

Muualla noteerattua 23.03.2009

Del.icio.us-linkit 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009

  • Helpot Hurt-soinnut
  • GlobalPost kokeilee hoitaa ulkomaan uutisointia netissä uudella bisnesmallilla – That ad-supported reporting is only one part of the GlobalPost business plan. If it is to succeed, it will depend in part on how many people sign up for a separate paid section of the site, which was to have been available in test mode beginning last week but is now expected to go online in the coming days. Called Passport, it offers access to GlobalPost correspondents, including exclusive reports on business topics of less interest to general audiences, conference calls and meetings with reporters, and breaking news e-mail messages from those journalists. Passport subscribers, who pay as much as $199 a year, can suggest article ideas. –– a third revenue stream has been growing, as the company has signed up a growing number of news outlets, including The Daily News and The Boise Weekly of Idaho, to carry its reports and have use of its correspondents.
  • Post-Mortem – ‘ER’ Is Remembered Fondly (NY Times) – "I said to George it was going to be the No. 1 show in television by the fifth episode. He said no way. We wound up betting on it. It was No. 1 after the fourth episode and George still owes me that $5. Maybe if he reads this he’ll pay me."
  • BBC leikkaa 2 mrd, saa 30 milj lisää nettipalveluihin – kommenttina Suomen debattiin julkisesta palvelusta: "The trust explained that work would have to be done on the BBC's online services to justify the extra cash. They criticised the search facility on bbc.co.uk and said that not enough was being done to direct users to external websites. In particular, they asked management to think carefully about whether the BBC's website content was always distinctive. "
  • Google Maps Latitude, Longitude Popup

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Muualla noteerattua 22.03.2009 – 23.03.2009

Del.icio.us-linkit 19.03.2009 – 22.03.2009

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Tukea Rare Exports -leffalle, ninjamusikaalille ja Valkoisen peuran uusintaversiolle

Jalmari Finne tekee Rare Exports -lyhäreistä kokoillan elokuvan. Suomen elokuvasäätiö myönsi projektille viime vuoden joulukuussa 20 000 euroa kehittämistukea ja maaliskuussa 720 000 euroa tuotantotukea. Näyttelijäkaartikin on pysynyt ennallaan (Tommila & Korpela jne.) Ensi-iltaa kaavaillaan ensi vuoden syksylle.

Tukipäätöksistä löytyy muutama muukin hauska bongaus. Ensinnäkin genreleffoja näyttäisi olevan ainakin suunnittelussa enemmän kuin aikoihin.

  • Marko Mäkilaakso, jonka zombiesotaleffa ei vieläkään ole levityksessä, sai lovecraftiaaniselta kuulostavan Night of the Witch –leffan kehittelyyn 6000 euroa. Synopsis: Nuori noitatieteen opettaja, professori John Ward, saapuu kotikaupunkiinsa Salemiin pitämään luentoa ja joutuu kohtaamaan menneisyytensä kun noita palaa kaupunkiin.
  • Pekko Pesosen ja AJ Annilan kaavailema ninjamusikaali on saanut 10 000 euroa käsikirjoittamistukea. Tosin mahtaneeko Annila olla enää mukana puikoissa, kun häntä on vokoteltu ulkomaille hommiin?
  • Sami Laitisen ja Kasimir Lehdon scifi-pätkä 2012 lienee valmistuessaan (jos se siis valmistuu) ensimmäinen kotimainen kokoillan 3d-leffa
  • Musiikkivideoilla kunnostautunut Antti Jokinen sai 60 000 euroa kehittämistukea Nicholas of the North -elokuvalle, joka on onelinerinsä mukaan Koko perheen fantasiaelokuva jossa Nicholas North pelastaa itsensä ja koko pohjoisen kansan pahojen voimien kirouksesta.
  • Viides genreleffaksi laskettava tapaus on Valkoinen peura, joka on siitä harvinainen tapaus, että se on uusintaversio. Yritin miettiä suomalaisia remakeja, mutta en keksinyt kuin kaksi: Tuntematon sotilas (Laine ja Molle) ja Juha (1937, 1956 ja 1999).

Romaanisovituksia on tulossa parikin kappaletta. Veli-Pekka Hänninen sovittaa Arto Salmisen Varastoa leffaksi ja Ville Jankeri on ohjaamassa Pussikaljaelokuvaa, jonka nimi on mediaa vaihtaessa näppärästi mukautettu.

Ihan muuten vaan kiinnostavia ovat Muukalaisen ohjanneen Jukka-Pekka Valkeapään Juoksija eli Amok-juoksu olympiavuonna 1952 (10 000 euroa käsikirjoitustukea) ja Aleksi Salmenperän Korso, jossa nuori kaveri koettaa toteuttaa epärealistista haavettaan pienessä betonilähiössä (20 000 euroa kehittämistukea).

Muualla noteerattua 19.03.2009 – 21.03.2009

  • Drag Me To Hell -traileri – Sam Raimi palaa juurilleen
  • Vintage Movie Posters from Turkey
  • The Decade of the Dude (Rolling Stone) – "This whole room is kind of dude-like," Jeff Bridges says. It's a summer afternoon at Bridges' Santa Barbara, California, estate, and the 58-year-old actor is digging around his dusty garage, looking for memorabilia from The Big Lebowski. Artifacts from the movie are strewn about his Spanish-tiled house. In Bridges' recording studio — where he once cut an album with Michael McDonald — sits one of the bowling-pin hats used in the trippy dream sequence with Bridges and co-star Julianne Moore. In his office are the grimy jelly sandals that Bridges' character, a slacker called the Dude, wore for most of the film. When we walk up to the ocean-view bluff where Bridges likes to hike every day, there's the remains of a cocktail in a dirty cup. It's a Black Russian. As far as I can tell, this seems like the biggest difference between Bridges and his most enduring character, who prefers his Russians white.
  • 500 Days of Summer -traileri – Nerd rapture? Zooey Deschanel + Joseph Gordon-Levitt, soundtrackilla Regina Spektor

Del.icio.us-linkit 17.03.2009 – 19.03.2009

  • DHTML Lemmings – ei tarvitse siis Flash-plugaria toimiakseen
  • US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites – The New York Review of Books – Contents
    Introduction
    1. Main Elements of the CIA Detention Program
    1.1 Arrest and Transfer
    1.2 Continuous Solitary Confinement and Incommunicado Detention
    1.3 Other Methods of Ill-treatment
    1.3.1 Suffocation by water
    1.3.2 Prolonged Stress Standing
    1.3.3 Beatings by use of a collar
    1.3.4 Beating and kicking
    1.3.5 Confinement in a box
    1.3.6 Prolonged nudity
    1.3.7 Sleep deprivation and use of loud music
    1.3.8 Exposure to cold temperature/cold water
    1.3.9 Prolonged use of handcuffs and shackles
    1.3.10 Threats
    1.3.11 Forced shaving
    1.3.12 Deprivation/restricted provision of solid food
    1.4 Further elements of the detention regime….
  • Steven Johnson: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News – There should have been a ten-year evolutionary process: the ecosystem steadily diversifying and establishing its complex relationships, the new business models evolving, the papers slowly transferring from print to digital, along with the advertisers. Instead, the financial meltdown – and some related over-leveraging by the newspaper companies themselves – has taken what should have been a decade-long process and crammed it down into a year or two. That is bad news for two reasons. First because it is going to inflict a lot of stress on people inside the industry who do great things, and who provide an important social good with their work. But it’s also bad news because it’s going to distract us from the long-term view; we’re going to spend so much time trying to figure out how to keep the old model on life support that we won’t be able to help invent a new model that actually might work better for everyone.
  • Deep Secrets of ‘The Daily Show’ – työskentelytavoista jne
  • Songs You Used To Love – voi leikkiä arvausleikkiä

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Muualla noteerattua 17.03.2009 – 18.03.2009

  • Away We Go -traileri – käsis Dave Eggers, rooleissa John Krasisnski, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Catherine O'Hara, ohjaus Sam Mendes (meh)
  • Tunteet ja elokuva – It is the job of the critic and the viewer or reader to ferret out these messages, lift them from their context within the work, reorient them into some kind of brief philosophical treatise, and take the implication of that treatise as the purpose of the film, or at least as the locus of its true worth. But this way of thinking about film diminishes the art form by reducing it to a bare bones propositional message. It ignores the spectator's experience in viewing the film, places ultimate value on the propositional content that is later distilled from that viewing, and misunderstands the function of the viewing experience in developing the film's themes and ideas. Such a mistake is commonly called the "heresy of paraphrase."
  • Dan Meth's Pop Cultural Charts – NYC Sitcom Map, Sit-Com Houses, The Trilogy Meter