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Canadian producer Brad Fox blogs on visual media, and living in the digital wild west

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Entries from March 2011

Adventures in Universe Building (aka The “My Little Pony” Posts): Part II – Allegorical and Campaign Universes

March 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments

Now that I’ve, hopefully, made a passable argument that dynamic and varied story engines were not a strength of 1980s kids television – let’s look at a different, but related, aspect of those shows (and kind of the underlying point of this whole series of posts) – The Universes they were set in.

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Tags: electronic entertainment · media ramblings

Farewell to Floppies: Part 0 – Adieu to the FLCS.

March 26th, 2011 · 5 Comments

I re-read this post on digital comics yesterday (based on Brian Hibb’s post on Digital Comics sales), and I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. For starters how many frustrations I actually had with comics buying compared to pretty much every other recreational aspect of my life. But more importantly, I realized that I have […]

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Tags: funnybooks

Usage Based Billing – The Elephant in the Muddy Waters in the Middle Ground

March 2nd, 2011 · 5 Comments

I got an e-mail from a friend (on his way to a Useage Based Billing consultation) yesterday curious as to what my thoughts were on the whole thing. I haven’t written anything about it at length (other than the odd tweet, mostly because my position generally falls outside both of the established “camps”, and when […]

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Tags: canadiana · copyright reform · electronic entertainment · media ramblings