Will Sam get his promotion?!?!  Find out, in THE INTERVIEW.

QuickTime:
http://www.filmcow.com/theinterview.html

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRX0AQKFtwU

So I guess MySpace has died, huh? I got 225 people joining the FilmCow Facebook account in the time it took me to get 17 on MySpace.

I’ve taken the MySpace link off the front page of FilmCow. I’ll keep the account up and I’ll keep updating the music there for people who want to add FilmCow songs to their profile, but it just doesn’t look like a lot of people are interested in MySpace anymore.

If anyone has any suggestions as to something they’d like to see on FilmCow let me know. A long time ago I was getting a lot of requests to start a forum on FilmCow, but I delayed setting one up because I was sure that nobody would want to post there. And now the forum has over a million and a half posts. So I’m certainly willing to listen to suggestions considering how epically wrong I’ve been about this stuff in the past.

As for movie updates, I actually have a good number of videos I’m planning on releasing soon that have been mostly finished for a while now. This includes “The Interview,” “A Serious Business Meeting,” “Llamas with Hats 2″ and “Bino the Elephant.” The first two (Interview and Business Meeting) should be out in a week or two. I’m not going to give a timeframe on the new Llamas video or Bino because something could always come up to delay those.

And yes, I am still working on the Spatula Madness feature, and no, I don’t have any updates on that right now.

Well, I’m off to the store. To buy stuff. Like batteries.

Well, I’ve decided it’s probably a good idea to give FilmCow a presence on all those “social networking” sites you kids are spending so much time destroying your brain on.

FilmCow is now on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter:

http://www.myspace.com/filmcow
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FilmCow/148424013951
http://twitter.com/filmcow

If you use those sites please add me so that I do not look friend-less and sad. Also, please tell me what I should add to my MySpace and Facebook pages to make them less lame.

I decided to put together an ad for the FilmCow DVD. And I probably spent way too much time on it. ENJOY.

QuickTime:
http://www.filmcow.com/fcmc.html

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIN7dGa_Syo

Also, I’ve added the option to pay via PayPal to the order page:

http://www.filmcow.com/dvd.html

Is on sale now.

http://www.filmcow.com/dvd.html

Some minor site updates have gone live.  You may need to refresh and / or empty your browser’s cache to see them.

First is the visual changes.  The main FilmCow banner has changed, and the “Newest Release” part of the main page has been updated so that it’ll now display characters from whatever our newest video is.  There are some other minor visual changes as well.

The Video Podcast has been updated, all of the videos there are now higher-res to look better on iPhones and iPod Touches.  They’re also now hosted with a podcast hosting service so that new releases will stop slowing down the main site (the Video Podcast took up most of the bandwidth here.)

Also, I’ve gotten rid of the Flash Video option in the Movies section.  YouTube is already Flash Video, and the quality has increased dramatically during the last year so it seems kind of redundant to have both (getting rid of it also dramatically decreases my exporting time.)  In its place is now a direct link to the iPod Video version of the movie.

So, there you go!

It’ll probably take a while to update in the iTunes store, but if you refresh your subscription you should notice it going all haywire, probably re-listing the videos you’ve already downloaded.  These are new versions of those files at a higher resolution.  If you’re playing them on your iPod you probably won’t notice any difference, but if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch it’s a lot clearer.

Please let me know if you experience any problems with this new feed, or with any of the videos.

Also, the DVD isn’t going to be released tonight, sorry.  UPS says the package containing my new test copy has been delayed, and delivery has been rescheduled until tomorrow.  So, hopefully we’ll be able to release tomorrow!

The release of the FilmCow Master Collection DVD should still be happening tomorrow.  There was an issue with the first test printing I got (which was my fault, and has been fixed), and the new test copy should be arriving tomorrow.  As long as everything is good with this copy the DVD will go on sale tomorrow night.

FilmCow.com will also get a small visual update when the DVD is released.  Nothing major, I just thought it was time for a little change.

Also, I’m in the process of changing the FilmCow Video Podcast.  That’s the iTunes RSS thing in the “Downloads” section that lets you subscribe to and download iPod versions of the FilmCow movies.  The videos are getting a resolution bump so that they look better on iPhones and iPod Touches, and the hosting is moving to a professional podcast hosting service.  The video podcast has been killing my site’s bandwidth this year, so moving it to its own service should free my server up for other things.

If you’re subscribed to the video podcast, you might notice some weirdness happening in the next week, and iTunes might ask you to re-download a bunch of videos.  Sorry about that if it happens, it’s hard to transition these things smoothly.

Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Norman Borlaug has died at age 95.  I find it incredibly depressing that this isn’t front-page news everywhere right now, especially after the news-mania Michael Jackson’s death caused.  Although I’m sure a lot of you don’t know who this is.

To put it simply, Dr. Normal Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. That’s right, a billion. When the world was facing an epic hunger crisis in the 60s the scale of which we had never seen before, it was Dr. Borlaug’s work in agricultural science that allowed for higher-yielding, disease resistant crops to be developed and brought to struggling countries around the world.  It was because of him that food production in countries with high starvation rates quadrupled.

He is, in terms of numbers, one of the most important and influential people who ever lived.

Well, thanks Dr. Borlaug.

The FilmCow Master Collection: 200 Years of Excellence.

This is a mock-up I did in Photoshop, I haven’t actually gotten my review copy yet.  When I do I’ll post a picture of it for you all to see.