Stupid Videos (www.stupidvideos.com) is a PG-13 equivalent rated site that collects and creates a variety of video clips. The videos are submitted by users, licensed from content partners, and/or produced by the StupidVideos producers. The main theme of most content on the StupidVideos site is humor, but it also extends to action or news based videos.
The website is very well known for the users' ability to interact with other users on the site, much like MySpace or Friendster. Users can create a profile, add a biography, pictures, and blog.
The company has streamed more than 1.5 billion videos to its teen-dominated audience and is used by 7 million users per month.
The StupidVideos site was redesigned in 2006. The site has partnerships with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Helio, Windows Mobile, Sony, Comcast and others.
StupidVideos' parent company is PureVideo Networks, Inc., which also owns and operates the broadband sites, GrindTV (www.grindtv.com), PureVideo (www.purevideo.com) and HollywoodUpClose (www.hollywoodupclose.com).
The website is very well known for the users' ability to interact with other users on the site, much like MySpace or Friendster. Users can create a profile, add a biography, pictures, and blog.
The company has streamed more than 1.5 billion videos to its teen-dominated audience and is used by 7 million users per month.
The StupidVideos site was redesigned in 2006. The site has partnerships with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Helio, Windows Mobile, Sony, Comcast and others.
StupidVideos' parent company is PureVideo Networks, Inc., which also owns and operates the broadband sites, GrindTV (www.grindtv.com), PureVideo (www.purevideo.com) and HollywoodUpClose (www.hollywoodupclose.com).
Luqman Mohammed Kurdi Hussein, originally from Dahuk (Kurdish region of Iraq), was a translator working for the Titan Corporation based in San Diego.
He was beheaded in Iraq. Al Jazeera reported his death on 11 October 2004. The Army of Ansar Al-Sunna was named as the perpetrator of the killing.
He was beheaded in Iraq. Al Jazeera reported his death on 11 October 2004. The Army of Ansar Al-Sunna was named as the perpetrator of the killing.
SlateCast.com is a social networking site founded in March 2006 and launched in November 2006. It is an online service designed to connect filmmakers with local talent. It is neither a casting nor a talent agency but rather an information technology company developed with the sole purpose to facilitate the information flow between the film industry professionals.
Overview
SlateCast.com is a privately funded, membership-based community. Although the service is provided free of charge, the site requires basic online registration. Account types include: Talent Account, Filmmaker Account, Crew Member Account and Friend of SlateCast.com Account. Accounts required to post, edit and maintain project and profile specific information.
Talent Account
Talent profile includes talent name (stage or real), ethnicity, height and weight, agent representation information, if available. Profile allows for optional head shot and a demo video reel. Talent members also have an option to list their relevant professional experience and special skills. Accounts of minors require guardian information.
Personal information, such as actor's address, email or phone number are not available online. Communication among members is possible via Private Messaging System. Talent profiles are listed in Talent Directory by default and can be hidden via opt-out option in account preferences.
Filmmaker Account
* Owners of Filmmaker accounts can post project details and add to it crew, extras and casting calls. All calls are specific to a particular geographic location. Posted casting calls are visible and available to talent in that location. Filmmaker accounts are commonly used by independent producers, casting directors, student filmmakers, advertising agencies and talent agents.
Filmmakers have an option to review Talent submissions to a particular role, and select only profiles that best meet project requirements.
Overview
SlateCast.com is a privately funded, membership-based community. Although the service is provided free of charge, the site requires basic online registration. Account types include: Talent Account, Filmmaker Account, Crew Member Account and Friend of SlateCast.com Account. Accounts required to post, edit and maintain project and profile specific information.
Talent Account
Talent profile includes talent name (stage or real), ethnicity, height and weight, agent representation information, if available. Profile allows for optional head shot and a demo video reel. Talent members also have an option to list their relevant professional experience and special skills. Accounts of minors require guardian information.
Personal information, such as actor's address, email or phone number are not available online. Communication among members is possible via Private Messaging System. Talent profiles are listed in Talent Directory by default and can be hidden via opt-out option in account preferences.
Filmmaker Account
* Owners of Filmmaker accounts can post project details and add to it crew, extras and casting calls. All calls are specific to a particular geographic location. Posted casting calls are visible and available to talent in that location. Filmmaker accounts are commonly used by independent producers, casting directors, student filmmakers, advertising agencies and talent agents.
Filmmakers have an option to review Talent submissions to a particular role, and select only profiles that best meet project requirements.
Cold Generation Y is a subset of Generation Y born between 1982 and 1985.
Because most definitions of Generation Y span upwards of 20 years, arguments have been made that different subsets of this generation have had distinct experiences that make it inappropriate to consider the often widest defined range (1976-2001) to really be considered a single generation.
Several scholars within the realm of sociological academia have postulated on the existence of a small but none-the-less distinct generational subset falling in the early years of Generation Y. It has been noted that those born in the years 1982-1985 exhibit certain societal and cultural traits, habits and preferences that-- while combining certain aspects of GEN X, and especially GEN Y-- render them unique in their own right. This generational partition has been occasionally referred to as the Early Y or Cold Y generation, and sometimes as "Generation Why". Notably, this theory conjects that Generation X ends in 1981, rather than one of the earlier years going back to 1976 used by some scholars.
Reasons for this partition include attitudes about technology, societal norms and, indirectly, in areas like the global political order, etc. This "Cold Y" generation was the very last to obtain cognizance or self-awareness before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Therefore they were the last generational segment with any memory of life during the Cold War. They were also the last to have some ideas of what life was like when the modern information based society was in its transitional/formative years, rather than the current all-pervasive and totally integrated form it had taken by the early 1990s. In other words, they were the final generation to be able to compare and contrast the late Cold War/Space Age society with the Post-Cold War/Information Age society using their own personal experiences and memories.
Consequently, one can see these characteristics manifest themselves in areas like the approach to contemporary technology. For the regular generation Y, modern information technology has always been "there", whereas Early Y grew up during the critical period of technological evolution in which the current bedrock technologies on which our info-based society relies were moved out of the technical/specialist realm and into the consumer applied realm, often when traits of each area were mixed and indistinct, giving Early Y a rather odd viewpoint that combines the outlook of the specialist/technical segment of the previous generation, though much more widely disseminated, with the integrationist outlook of the later Y generation.
In terms of political and societal outlook, some scholars argue there are also noticeable differences. Gen X has now largely had time to fall into the standard orthodoxies of political participation, and mainstream Gen Y has either done so also or (for a wide segment of it) remained or non-participatory, they argue. Early Y, on the other hand, has manifested tendencies towards a less common form of what has been termed "policy-centric pragmatism", which places a lower value, relatively speaking, on constructs like ideology or formalism. When what could be termed ideology does manifest itself, the Early Y's seem to have taken-on an unusual tendency to often look for imported belief or value systems that lie outside the scope of those normally brought into the U.S. from abroad. For instance, early 20-year-old white Americans who consider themselves followers of Eastern religions or who consider themselves to be Francophiles or connoisseurs of foreign films and cultures.
Speaking in terms of societal mores and values, some academics theorize that Early Y is in limbo between the post-Sexual Revolution norms of Gen X and the emergent ones of Gen Y (which have been described by some commentators as simply the normalization or commoditization of those of Gen X). This includes an apparent embracing of the basic outlooks of Gen X, but a reluctance to carry to their logical extremes, as we see occurring now with Gen Y. In many areas, Early Y seems to embrace the more cynical worldview exhibited by X while rejecting some of what they view as crassness or immoderation. It has been remarked that in doing so, as Early Y matures they have begun to look several generations behind X in forming certain societal/sexual constructs.
Because most definitions of Generation Y span upwards of 20 years, arguments have been made that different subsets of this generation have had distinct experiences that make it inappropriate to consider the often widest defined range (1976-2001) to really be considered a single generation.
Several scholars within the realm of sociological academia have postulated on the existence of a small but none-the-less distinct generational subset falling in the early years of Generation Y. It has been noted that those born in the years 1982-1985 exhibit certain societal and cultural traits, habits and preferences that-- while combining certain aspects of GEN X, and especially GEN Y-- render them unique in their own right. This generational partition has been occasionally referred to as the Early Y or Cold Y generation, and sometimes as "Generation Why". Notably, this theory conjects that Generation X ends in 1981, rather than one of the earlier years going back to 1976 used by some scholars.
Reasons for this partition include attitudes about technology, societal norms and, indirectly, in areas like the global political order, etc. This "Cold Y" generation was the very last to obtain cognizance or self-awareness before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Therefore they were the last generational segment with any memory of life during the Cold War. They were also the last to have some ideas of what life was like when the modern information based society was in its transitional/formative years, rather than the current all-pervasive and totally integrated form it had taken by the early 1990s. In other words, they were the final generation to be able to compare and contrast the late Cold War/Space Age society with the Post-Cold War/Information Age society using their own personal experiences and memories.
Consequently, one can see these characteristics manifest themselves in areas like the approach to contemporary technology. For the regular generation Y, modern information technology has always been "there", whereas Early Y grew up during the critical period of technological evolution in which the current bedrock technologies on which our info-based society relies were moved out of the technical/specialist realm and into the consumer applied realm, often when traits of each area were mixed and indistinct, giving Early Y a rather odd viewpoint that combines the outlook of the specialist/technical segment of the previous generation, though much more widely disseminated, with the integrationist outlook of the later Y generation.
In terms of political and societal outlook, some scholars argue there are also noticeable differences. Gen X has now largely had time to fall into the standard orthodoxies of political participation, and mainstream Gen Y has either done so also or (for a wide segment of it) remained or non-participatory, they argue. Early Y, on the other hand, has manifested tendencies towards a less common form of what has been termed "policy-centric pragmatism", which places a lower value, relatively speaking, on constructs like ideology or formalism. When what could be termed ideology does manifest itself, the Early Y's seem to have taken-on an unusual tendency to often look for imported belief or value systems that lie outside the scope of those normally brought into the U.S. from abroad. For instance, early 20-year-old white Americans who consider themselves followers of Eastern religions or who consider themselves to be Francophiles or connoisseurs of foreign films and cultures.
Speaking in terms of societal mores and values, some academics theorize that Early Y is in limbo between the post-Sexual Revolution norms of Gen X and the emergent ones of Gen Y (which have been described by some commentators as simply the normalization or commoditization of those of Gen X). This includes an apparent embracing of the basic outlooks of Gen X, but a reluctance to carry to their logical extremes, as we see occurring now with Gen Y. In many areas, Early Y seems to embrace the more cynical worldview exhibited by X while rejecting some of what they view as crassness or immoderation. It has been remarked that in doing so, as Early Y matures they have begun to look several generations behind X in forming certain societal/sexual constructs.