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Astro-Boy Trailer is Now Live

Astro-Boy Trailer is Now Live

So it seems they’ve made an Astro-Boy movie. It will be released on October 28, 2009 by Imagi Animation Studios and will be distributed Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Kristen Bell, Eugene Levy, and Nathan Lane.

According to Wikipedia (both because I’m lazy and because Astro-boy has been around for sixty years), Astroboy is an [...]

The Cell Phone Novel and Twitter: To publish or not to publish?

The Cell Phone Novel and Twitter: To publish or not to publish?

The Mobile Phone Novel

Something interesting caught my eye while surfing the net. Apparently cell phones are used so prominently in Japan (and other Asian countries like South Korea and China) that people read entire novels on their cell phones. The serialized portions are released periodically over a period of time and since only [...]