Casting a Long (Digital) Shadow

So I recently tallied up my various 'presences' on a variety of Web applications, 2.0 widgets, etc etc. Here's what I found:

This Blog
The Sistercritics Blog, which I run with...my sister.
Geekerati Media Blog
A LiveJournal account
A Facebook account
A Myspace account
Geekerati Radio Show
My (TV Junkie) Radio Show
A LinkedIn account
Twitter account
Pandora account
Photobucket account
Youtube account
Google News Reader/Google talk
AIM
Yahoo Messenger
MSN Messenger (which I never use anymore)
Yelp account
My CellarTracker Account (Wine)

And Fusing most of these together is my new FriendFeed account.

And we don't even want to count the forums I'm a member of...

PaleyFest

So, it has begun. Last year I couldn't get tickets to anything -- partly because I was out of town, partly the things I wanted to see sold out too quickly. I was so incensed (as I am every year) I swore I'd cancel my membership. But I didn't.

Lucky for me, they upgraded the Paley Festival this year -- snazzy name (PaleyFest), new venue (the Cinerama Dome at Arclight), online streaming of events...?

Wha?

Yes, for the first time ever, if you go to the PaleyFest website you can watch highlights of the panels!

Now, there was one panel that sold out ridiculously fast. That panel is the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Reunion panel. Apparently, the PaleyFest people have wised up, so this panel will stream LIVE on the 20th.

I already went to the "Pushing Daisies" panel, and I've three more I'll be attending -- "Chuck", "Friday Night Lights", and "The X-Files". But you can bet I'll be watching the others online.

Waking up to the future

So, while I remain somewhat secretive about some of my projects, I've decided that for my latest foray into entertaining the masses I will blog extensively on my efforts.

My latest project is a web series. I'm co-writing the series with my good friend Bernie Su. He and I believe that we can make a quality entertaining product specific to the web (at least to start).

While I won't be spilling the story details as yet, here's our basic construct for the series.

We've written a "pilot" episode which introduces our main characters and concept, but is (at least for now) not directly related to the main plot of the 8-episode series.

Each episode will be 5-6 minutes in length, and we hope to clock the total project in at 44 minutes.

We are still working on distribution and I am bringing aboard a producer I think will get us on the right track as we move toward ramping up the writing on the other episodes.

I fully intend for this to see the light of day by the end of April 2008.

Oh, and yes, it will have its own website and viral marketing elements. It should be fun.