Well, the Battlestar Galactica season ended a few weeks ago, and we won’t get the resolution to the cliffhanger until January 2008.
If you already need a fix, check out this 5 minute recap of the series (hat tip to The CIC).
Tags: battlestar galactica
Well, I’ve been twittering for the last week or so, and I am going to put this one squarely in the "different strokes for different folks" category. It just doesn’t consume me the way it clearly has so many others.
I don’t blog in bursts. My posts tend to be longer, essay-type posts, rather than short newsy commentary. So, Twitter couldn’t be a replacement for my blog. That said, I do see two benefits to a Twitter network of reasonable size. First, it should tend to cut down on the one-two line emails, either to one individual or a group of friends, and the one-two line back-and-forth comments that sometimes occur on blogs. Instead, just "twit it." Second, if you are looking for a source or a reference, and just can’t find what you need, Twitter allows you to tap into the collective mind more quickly than other tools. So I’ll keep "twitting" once or twice a day and watch where it goes. More thoughts from Elisa Camahort, Jeneane Sessum, Phil Gomes.
Enough about Twitter. BlogHer Business is this Thursday and Friday in NYC. Registration closes tonight at midnight. Lots of great sessions, including one on the social media press release. It will be interesting to see if this panel can answer my question about how the proposed new formats help us deliver better content.
And finally, my fellow Battlestar fans — has it rocked this month or what? Reminds me of the show I initially fell in love with more than it has in a while, although I have not disliked this season as much as others have 🙂 I am of course totally spoiled for the last episode. Email me if you want to know <evil grin>
As regular readers of this blog know, in addition to marketing, PR, my family and my dogs, I am absolutely passionate about the science fiction/fantasy genre.
My latest obsession is the SciFi series Battlestar Galactica. I’m also a spoiler-whore of the worst kind 🙂 You know, the kind of person who sometimes reads the end of a book to make sure she’ll like the ending before getting too invested. Anyway, as I was surfing around looking for material to feed my addiction, I discovered an interesting blog written by screenwriter Jane Espenson.
Espenson was a writer on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly (other series previously on my must watch list.). She has written a couple of Battlestar eps this season, including last week’s super Dirty Hands.
To the point. Jane in Progess is written for aspiring screenwriters and is chock full of writing tips. Now I am not an aspiring screenwriter, but I find that many of her tips are equally applicable to my work as a marketing and communications professional.
She’s also a great writer, which makes her blog a real pleasure to read. Be sure to check out this post There’s No Such Thing as Tylium
Yes, I am a Battlestar Galactica fan girl. I admit it.
Fellow fans, check out these holiday greetings from the blog The CIC.
Also — check out all the holiday stuff on the OfficeMax site. There is much more than the Elf — among other things, there is North Pole Dancing. Well done, OfficeMax.
Tags: holiday, santa, Battlestar Galactica, viral marketing, OfficeMax
More serious topics will be back this week but for the past month, I’ve been in a real science fiction TV marathon. So far I’ve watched all the episodes of Farscape, most for the first time and some more than once, caught up with Stargate SG-1 (but only from season 9 for reasons which will become clear if not already), finally getting into Doctor Number 10, and yes, watching my first episode of Battlestar Galactica.
So here’s what I want for my next sci fi show. I want Ben Browder and Claudia Black, playing any characters, don’t care. John and Aeryn from Farscape, Cam and Vala from Stargate. New characters. Doesn’t matter. They could read the phone book to each other and it would be good. And I want Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Serenity, Angel) in the mix. Sidekick, villain. Doesn’t matter.
Pretty please with a cherry on top.
Tags: Farscape, Stargate, Claudia Black, Ben Browder, Adam Baldwin, Firefly, science fiction
