Fluctuo

Over the last few months we’ve seen the rise of a new and highly controversial kind of website that focuses on “Entertainment Shopping” — online stores that offer customers goods with very steep discounts, but with some risk involved in the shopping process. Some have likened these to gambling or scams, while others consider them auctions.

The other day, John talked about the difficulties of putting 24Hz material on a 120Hz display . While helping out a bit with that, I was reading up on telecine , which is an interesting read if you want to know yet another way in which TV channels butcher the movies they show. Steven Soderbergh, whom I will presume you know of, is angry at them for another reason, though: aspect ratios.

This is a video featuring Kevin Spacey. He’s a man who gets paid millions of dollars to pretend to be other men, for entertainment.

Twitter is crossing mediums to develop a TV show, according to a Variety report. Joining forces with LA-based production companies Reveille Productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners, Twitter plans to launch an unscripted show that will put “ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format.” Variety says the show’s concept was the brainchild of novelist Amy Ephron.

Tweetmeme is on a tear. According to Compete, the Twitter-centric link tracker went from nowhere in February, 2009 (with 26,000 unique visitors) to more than tenfold increase in March (to 385,000 uniques). Nick Halstead, The CEO of UK-based Fav.or.it, the company behind Tweetmeme, tells me he is tracking closer to 200,000 uniques a month based on yesterday’s visitors, but that he is adding 50 percent a week