Dreamer - Inspired By a True Story
Here's the thing about Dakota Fanning: when she started her career,
she was consistently cast as the little girl who acted like a stuck-up adult. It
was a gimmick that rode the line between creepy and obnoxious; that she appeared
in a string of wretched messes - "I Am Sam," "Uptown Girls," "The Cat In the
Hat," "Hide and Seek" - only compounded the fact that I couldn't stand the
kid.Ah, but then came "War of the Worlds," and Steven Spielberg had the
notion of allowing this little girl to actually act like a little girl. It
worked. Gone was the aggravating wise-beyond-her-years act, replaced by an
honest performance in a role that finally figured out what to do with the young
star. And now comes "Dreamer," which finds a perfect home for Fanning's graces:
it's a huggable girl-and-her-horse yarn that allows Dakota to just be Dakota,
with dazzling results.It helps, of course, that Fanning i...
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New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 46

New media tools and services are blooming
like never before. Here is a new basket full of new media gems for another great
technology-rich Sharewood Picnic. The Sharewood Picnic is my weekly collection
of the best, most interesting new media tools, resources and pointers I have run
into during my daily research and online explorations. These are new media tools
and technologies that can facilitate more effective communication, promotion,
marketing, networking and your ability to discover like-minded individuals and
organizations around the world. Photo credit: Delphine Mayeur And here is what I
have colected for you this week: Reputation management service applicable to any
web site Access online applications via your mobile phone Browser-based toolbar
to download rich-media from any...

Online TV News: New Independent World Television News Network To Launch

"Fear runs stronger in every American
newsroom — and I mean every American newsroom — now than any time that I'm aware
of in my career," he said. Politicians "have learned that the press indeed can
be intimidated," and corporate owners have placed profits over the public good,
he added. (Source: Baltimore Sun - Dan Rather, September 2005) Democracy depends
on an informed and engaged public and on a courageous press that holds those in
power accountable. Yet on television, where most people get their news,
propaganda and spin are reported as reality and facts are treated as just a
matter of opinion. Today, most television news are nothing but well-packaged
propaganda clips delivered to increasingly numbed television audiences
as...