In the FT, another excellent political editor, George Parker, called the PM's YouTube broadcast on MPs' expenses a "video nasty" and quoted a former minister demanding to know: "Why on earth did they let it go out?" Why indeed?
Previously reported expenses include video games, oral surgery, a garage door, a surf and skate shop and private school tuition.
The golden answer seems to be that we need to teach using Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ (Gove said so) but will this come at the expense of video and music editing, ebook creation, website design or some other exciting aspect of ICT? Programming will not change the world.
At that time, though, it cost labels about $1 million to "break" a new act, counting contract advances, recording and video expenses, and other marketing and promotion; in the most recent report, that figure was $1.4 million.
Smith, at least, had been earmarked for the chop for months, her reputation tarnished not just by her adult video expenses embarrassments but by a troubled, increasingly lacklustre period in the most unforgiving of ministerial posts.
Over the last year, in fact, Blockbuster has done just fine, gaining market share at the expense of rival video store chains like Hollywood Video and Video UpDate.
Mr. Miller also had some fun at the neighbor's expense, posting a video on YouTube with a suitably silly soundtrack and narration.
"The margins are lower on video-on-demand, so why promote that business at the expense of home video?" Mr. Antioco said.
Add in streaming and the company could basically have no costs except for video streaming expenses.
Independent filmmakers will have a lot harder time raising the money for expenses compared to traditional video.
