Linkblog

Machinima Rebrands Its Gaming Network to Focus on Original Programming (and gives contributors a new suite of tools to make them more prolific programmers) NextWeb
Google YouTube Stars Media Campaign of the Year (its stars saw big benefits from it) Adweek

Watch 8 Films That Show What Drone Film Making Could Look Like (look for brands to jump on board) Indiewire
The New Yorker Unveils Its First Animated GIF Cover (nice, subtle design treatment) Taxi
Ten Stop Motion Artists Doing Brilliant Work for Brands on Vine (different but growing type of engagement) Adweek
Animator vs Animation IV (a tale about creations taking over) Alan Becker
A Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer Takes Phone for A Spin (professional grade creations becoming easier by the day). PetaPixel
Jerry Seinfeld’s Favorite Seinfeld Emoji Baffles Him (evolving language of digital foreign to most, even personally confusing). Mashable
11 Beautiful Psychedelic GIFs Created By a Math Wiz (“David Whyte uses cosines and exponentials the way Toulouse-Lautrec used oil paints.”) Wired
MIT Launches Laboratory For Social Machines with Twitter Investment (speed of digital ecosystem evolution far outpacing tools to understand it) MIT
Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling, Visualized (reading Creativity, Inc., in parallel. Great tale on creative org culture, systems, expectation-setting and output) Fast Company

Nine Digital Marketing Tips for Connecting with Teens (hint: they want to see it versus be told about it). CIO Magazine
The Economics of Internet Comedy Videos (community focus a must) Splitsider
Newsfeed Algorithms: Are They Really a Remedy to Information Surplus? (I vote no, so far) Content Alley
Collaboration is Hard – or Scarce Resources in a Time of Technological Abundance (@MickeyMcManus a master of unconventional perspective) Auto Desk Labs
Thom York Releases New Album Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Through BitTorrent (Tip @mattmason) Consequence of Sound
One Secret To Success of Quartz, Buzzfeed and Gawker: They Look at News as a Service (brand publishers take note) Gigaom
Mobile Video has Jumped 400 Percent in the Last Two Years (and still nascent stage material) Adweek