To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
— Anthony Burgess, born in 1917
The Dodo and We Rate Dogs are some of the friendliest spaces online, “but videos and tweets about dogs, cats, cows and piglets aren’t just about spreading good cheer…The Dodo isn’t alone in its mission to become an authority in the pet space either. Animal shelter and rescue organizations like YouTube subscribers), Howl of a Dog (1.28 million subscribers) and strong online presences. Dogs also get plenty of love from social media accounts like We Rate Dogs. Run by Matt Nelson, it has almost 9 million followers on Twitter and uses its reach to raise money for pups in need…Joanna Zelman, The Dodo channel’s executive producer, says giving viewers a sense of hope and optimism about the world is a pillar of the brand’s philosophy. “There’s not a ton of trust in the world right now,” she says. “But animals are as pure and honest and believable as you can get…”
Is It Time to Kill the Book Blurb? - WSJ.
This seems to me to be much ado about very little. I've written a few. I try to be matter-of-fact and not over-the-top. I would need more than a blurb on a book cover to prompt me to buy a book.
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Kottke.org: “Flim is a movie search engine currently in beta that returns screenshots from movies based on keywords like “clock”or “tree”…You can filter results by things like genre, year, and film ratio. You can search by color and within movies, e.g. “tuxedo” in Titanic..”
Flim is the answer to the statement: images are everywhere: movies, TV, movie clips, internet. Images are needed at every creative process level. From fashion and design, via cinema and music video. Flim is the best tool for iconographic search…over 50,000 HD screen shots provided daily. Stills come from movies, documentaries and soon from Ads and music videos. Each picture is registered by film, director, DOP, actor, genre, style topics, release date…”