Archive for July 2009

Comic-Con ’09: Hangin’ with the Film Bloggers

After all the crowds, long lines, outrageous costumes, amazing panels, exclusive footage, tasty schwag, celebrity hobnobbing, and of course, mindblowingly creative comics, the most memorable part of my trip to San Diego’s Comic-Con would– hands-down– still have to be… spending time with my friends from Social Media and the film blog community. These people are [...]

Comic-Con ’09: Dr. Who Panel

I’ve always loved Dr. Who, but I’ll admit, my Doctor was the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker. This Doctor, played by David “not the guy from the Pet Shop Boys” Tennant, is a Doctor for this era, not mine. In any case, here’s the complete audio of last Saturday’s Dr. Who panel at Comic-Con, wherein über-producer [...]

Comic-Con ’09: Flynn’s Arcade

If there were two things that were an iconic part of my formative years of growing up in the ’80s, it would be the movie “Tron” and videogame arcades. So imagine my excitement as I visited Disney’s viral marketing live walkthrough of Flynn’s Arcade. For those unfamiliar with the original film, Jeff Bridges character, Kevin [...]

Comic-Con ’09: LOST Panel highlights

http://www.flickr.com/photos/watchwithkristin/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 I’m a huge LOST fan. In my opinion it’s the most ambitious and engaging long-form tale ever told. So for me, this panel was the highlight of my trip to Comic-Con. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse notoriously put on a great show every year, and they did not disappoint [...]

The Drill Up 02 – Muhammad and Bridget Debate… a lot (VIDEO ONLY)

While regular moderator Andy Sorcini was away at San Diego Comic-Con 2009, Guest host, and social media ninja JD Rucker took over the reins as Mu, social media commentators John Boitnott and Bridget Ayres discuss Digg’s Diggbar bait-and-switch, Amazon’s purchase of Zappos.com, Associated Press’ new rules for control of their content, and the suicide of [...]