Tuesday, September 24, 2019

What Amazon’s Big Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Streaming

What Amazon’s Big Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Streaming


With an avalanche of streaming platforms on their way to compete with Amazon as well as Netflix, what can Amazon’s very successful Emmys Sunday tell us about the future of the streaming wars? Mostly that the era of deep-pocket campaigning has only just begun. – Vanity Fair




       An interesting sounding panel at Columbia University in New York tomorrow at 16:00, on: Bringing the Literatures of East Central Europe to English-speaking Readers. 
       I'd go, if I were in the neighborhood ..... 

imrich cold from www.amazon.com.au

[NEW re-edited, new material August 2003] Cold River: a survivor's story is about man's desire for freedom 

Why We Can’t Agree On What’s True to Anymore

Public life has become like a play whose audience is unwilling to suspend disbelief. Any utterance by a public figure can be unpicked in search of its ulterior motive. As cynicism grows, even judges, the supposedly neutral upholders of the law, are publicly accused of personal bias. Once doubt descends on public life, people become increasingly dependent on their own experiences and their own beliefs about how the world really works. – The Guardian