{"id":3710,"date":"2010-01-20T18:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2010-01-20T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:30:27","slug":"wednesday-various-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wish my company had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letterheady.com\/\">letterhead this cool<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\" title=\"Tor.com\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>An in-depth interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackingnetflix.com\/2010\/01\/hackingnetflix-interviews-netflix-coo-sarandos-about-warner-bros-deal.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HackingNetflix+(Hacking+NetFlix)\">with Netflix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos<\/a> about their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/01\/07\/cnet.netflix.warner.bros.movies\/index.html\">recent deal with Warner Bros<\/a>. I think this goes a long way to explaining the deal and why it&#8217;s ultimately a boon to Netflix subscribers. (As such, the interview is maybe only of interest to subscribers.) There&#8217;s been a lot of anger over the planned 28-day window between when DVDs go on sale and when they&#8217;ll be available for rent at Netflix. But I really don&#8217;t have a problem with it &#8212; not if it means more, and better streaming content and a greater likelihood that <i>when<\/i> a new release is available, there will actually be enough stock for me to get a copy.<\/li>\n<li>An interest Catch-22 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfftawards.org\/?p=99\">science fiction translations revealed<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Because it takes so long for English-language science fiction to get translated, people in non-English speaking countries are often reading books that are several years behind the current fashion in English speaking countries. They then write books in response to what they have read, but when those books are offered for translation into English the big publishers reject them as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old fashioned\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>For most authors, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfscope.com\/2010\/01\/bruce-holland-rogers-sells-mor.html\">breaking 1,000 words<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t seem like much. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sff.net\/people\/bruce\/\">Bruce Holland Rogers<\/a> (who contributed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/subscribe\/#Oct07\">Kaleidotrope #3<\/a>, by the way), it&#8217;s practically a novel!<\/li>\n<li>And finally, some truly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petercallesen.com\/index\/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm\">beautiful papercraft<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/mersipan.livejournal.com\" title=\"Mersipan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish my company had letterhead this cool. [via] An in-depth interview with Netflix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chief Content Officer, Ted Sarandos about their recent deal with Warner Bros. I think this goes a long way to explaining the deal and why it&#8217;s ultimately a boon to Netflix subscribers. (As such, the interview is maybe only of interest &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3710\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,16,27,4,41,14,11,31,10,52,12],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-books","tag-internet","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-media","tag-movies","tag-publishing","tag-sci-fi","tag-various","tag-work","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}