DB#415 – The Hobbit!
Today: Christmas preparations in San Francisco; Exciting news about The Hobbit!! The Secrets of the Lord of the Rings; Tin Tin and Captain Haddock in 3D; Mac and Katherine about procrastination and the Giving Campaign; the 2007 SQPN report; Cute Kittens; Christmas presents; Wine Tasting and how the invention of the CD turned me from Digital Geek into Opera Lover; Television: channel surfing or video podcasting?
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It is great that there will be a movie of the hobbit. Great news
Hi Father,
I understand the need for ads – and I really do hope they bring in additional revenue for SQPN – but I find the new ad layout slightly overwhelming. Is there a way to make them, the ads, more subtle?
I like the SQPN store concept – there is something there for everyone. But how are the text-based ads doing?
I wonder if one can embed ads in a podcast (a visual ad appears on video-capable iPods, for example)?
As always, Father. God Bless and keep up the great work!
Hi David. The ads do bring in additional revenue for SQPN, and both the store and the text ads generate similar amounts of revenue. Seeing that we are only at 67% of our fundraising goals, we really welcome this extra money. It looks like the combination of text ads + store revenue could pay the monthly costs of our main server (the one that hosts the website).
We are working on a redesign of the website, but making the ads more subtle might also result in less clicks, thus less revenue. We’ll do our best though.
Hi Father–
What about a tipjar that stays up on your page throughout the year? There are a number of addt’l ways to increase revenue: as the old saying goes, there’s more than one way to skin a cat!
I’m loading you up for my flight from Paris to Texas tomorrow. I wish I weren’t so “religious” about daily listening, then I’d have a few more to listen to on the flight. I’ll wave hello to Austin for you, and try to bring some of that Texas sunshine back to Europe on my return; we really need it!
Sources regarding The Hobbit:
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=40300
http://www.thehobbitblog.com/ (The Official Movie Blog)
Father… what was the exact track of music that you played from the Lord of the Rings? I’d like to hear that.
Thanks
IMPORTANT LINKS ON THE HOBBIT MOVIE ANNOUNCEMENT:
ANNOUNCING THE HOBBIT – (official press release – December 18, 2007):
http://www.newline.com/press/pr_2007-12-18_announcingthehobbit.html
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HARD ‘HOBBIT’ TO BREAK: JACKSON’S IN -
Here is the Yahoo story on the Hobbit movie news from yesterday afternoon(tuesday) that Fr. Roderick was quoting from:
http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20071218/119801856000.html
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A little more info on the forthcoming 2009 Hobbit via the Internet Movie Data Base:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0903624/
There are two versions of Story of a Soul in the SQPN bookstore. Which is the one you mentioned as the authoritative text?
Thanks.