Comments on: Why not team with Zoetrope? http://carolynkellogg.com/2007/01/why-not-team-with-zoetrope/ and Pinky's Paperhaus Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Bookdwarf http://carolynkellogg.com/2007/01/why-not-team-with-zoetrope/comment-page-1/#comment-1470 Bookdwarf Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:20:09 +0000 http://pinkyspaperhaus.com/?p=352#comment-1470 I agree with you C. They're trying so hard to be this cool site for grown-ups, but the more they push, the more I recoil. I agree with you C. They’re trying so hard to be this cool site for grown-ups, but the more they push, the more I recoil.

]]> By: erin http://carolynkellogg.com/2007/01/why-not-team-with-zoetrope/comment-page-1/#comment-1469 erin Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:41:13 +0000 http://pinkyspaperhaus.com/?p=352#comment-1469 Gather's been up to this sort of thing for a little while: http://amazonshorts.gather.com/ I tuned in from time to time and was generally underwhelmed (and annoyed by the spam I had to endure as a result of registering as a user). Anyway, the difference now seems to be the fiction format and where the judges are inserted into the process. I think you make an excellent point about where the judges actually belong, and I would only add that they need a Simon Cowell. That's what makes me read the entire Crapometer every time, of course. As for Zoetrope, maybe they feel like they're doing fine on their own -- their screenwriting contest is (for obvious reasons) internal, why mess with the formula? But yeah, it'd be interesting. Gather’s been up to this sort of thing for a little while: http://amazonshorts.gather.com/ I tuned in from time to time and was generally underwhelmed (and annoyed by the spam I had to endure as a result of registering as a user).

Anyway, the difference now seems to be the fiction format and where the judges are inserted into the process. I think you make an excellent point about where the judges actually belong, and I would only add that they need a Simon Cowell. That’s what makes me read the entire Crapometer every time, of course.

As for Zoetrope, maybe they feel like they’re doing fine on their own — their screenwriting contest is (for obvious reasons) internal, why mess with the formula? But yeah, it’d be interesting.

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