We’ve had some great comments and posts on A Swarm of Angels already as the project spreads through word of mouth, and people hearing about it through blogs.
I need to do a comprehensive update of these, but in the meantime I wanted to highlight one of the latest posts which have already brought us some fresh Angels from the filesharing community.
Ernesto from Torrentfreak joined up as a supporter and posted an effusive entry on his blog last night:
“This project truly is a great initiative. It is nice way to show Hollywood that there are alternatives to suing people, and implementing DRM … I encourage everyone to join the project, and if you own a blog or website: Spread the word!”
You can read the full post, and digg his story here.
Although I’ve been turning down offline press requests I did agree to an interview with .net magazine in the UK, because they are squarely focussed on an Internet-savvy audience. They mostly get a handle on our concept, but they did give us our first coverline ,and get my best quote so far:
“‘A Swarm of Angels is a raptor — more agile and quicker thinking — compared to the diplodocus of Hollywood which is ponderous because of its size, and the blockbuster model it has created where films are a big bang or a bust.’ Whether the raptor can really reinvent the future of film, we’ll discover in about a year. Stay tuned…”
You can download the full interview as a pdf.
Finally we had the first leak to mainstream press in The Guardian newspaper a couple of weeks ago, in an Internet column which said about A Swarm of Angels: “the business of putting it together is revolutionary and fun.”
Great to be both these things at once, isn’t it?
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Tags: bittorrent, creative commons, crowdsourcing, digital distribution, digital film, p2p, publicity
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September 27th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Ric
Your RSS feed seems to be broken (through Feedburner). IS there a new address?
September 27th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
matt
Hey Ric,
I checked the feed and it is working fine. Maybe you had a glitch with feedburner - seems to be back to normal now.
Thanks for the headsup.
October 2nd, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Lionel DAVID
Hello, as founder of a new “crowdsourcing” initiative, I’d like to introduce our project which aims to design and sale consumer electronic product. Like” A Swarm of Angels”, we can be also considered as “an agile raport compared to the diplodocus of thar market ”
. Launch of our official website by the mid of october. Bookmark our website : http://cecrowdsourcing.blogspot.com