Star Wars Day “is getting a virtual convention,” reports Movieweb.
Reedpop, the organization behind New York Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration have put the convention together… The two-day event is called An Online Revelry: May the 4th Be With You and Revenge of the 5th celebration. Star Wars fans can expect all kinds of activities to take part in, right from the…
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Will Comic Books Survive Coronavirus?
As Marvel cuts staff and publishers stop selling new titles, artists, shop owners and writers worry for the future of an industry worth billions. From a report: There are no new comic books. Steve Geppi, head of Diamond Comic Distributors, which distributes nearly every comic sold in the anglophone world (or used to), announced this on 23 March, though senior industry…
Will The Pandemic Force Us to Learn How to Cook?
“In one recent survey, 54 percent of respondents said they cook more than before the pandemic,” writes a clinical associate professor at NYU’s business school: 75 percent said they have become more confident in the kitchen and 51 percent said they will continue to cook more after the crisis ends. Interest in online cooking tutorials, recipe websites and food blogs has…
Sustain What: Join Sunday’s Unbroken Circle song and story swap
Colombia University’s Earth Institute in New York and host Andrew Revkin bring you a Sunday morning online session featuring musicians and experts in human sustainability on planet Earth. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/join-andrew-revkins-unbroken-circle-song-and-story-swap…
Authors, Publishers Condemn the ‘National Emergency Library’ As ‘Piracy’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Last week, when the Internet Archive announced its “National Emergency Library,” expanding access to more than a million digitized works, the group explained the move as a goodwill gesture in the time of coronavirus. With so many brick-and-mortar libraries forced to close their doors, in other words, the group was opening up its…
Mozilla Launches New Initiative With Scroll To Fund Publishers
Firefox, the global web browser from Mozilla, is launching a new subscription product Tuesday called the “Firefox Better Web initiative,” and it will feature former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile’s new product Scroll as a launch partner. From a report: It’s uncommon for a web browser to launch a product that’s explicitly tied to paying out publishers. Scroll’s business is all about…
Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Premiere Startup Factory, Moves Its Pitch Event Online Citing Coronavirus Concern
Startup accelerator Y Combinator announced today that it has moved its demo day online, citing a “growing concern over COVID-19,” or coronavirus. From a report: The demo day has historically drawn crowds of Silicon Valley elite, journalists and both national and international venture capitalists to watch more than 100 startups come out to the world. “While we won’t be able to…