Below are simple links to other interesting stuff I've come across on the web in the last day or two; they may or may not concern literature or photography, or indeed the arts at all. You can click here to learn more about how I compile this list and what software I use, if you're interested.

What a surprise: 2007 was terrible for movie industry
Higher prices, less customers, combative attitudes, rampant stealing, less investment money, and a shockingly high number of big-budget bombs made 2007 one of the worst years in Hollywood history.

Wal-Mart very quietly shuts down video-download disaster
Meanwhile, customers don't know the long-term fate of their past purchases; Wal-Mart videos can't be duped to disc, won't work on iPods, needs proprietary client software that Wal-Mart no longer supports.

Holy crap, Gawker launches a science-fiction blog
It's called "io9" and is full of the kind of interesting, funny crap you would expect a Gawker blog to be full of. Highly recommended.

Interesting question for returning talk-show hosts: What to actually put on the air?
Interesting article in the NYT posits an interesting question of the talk-show hosts returning to the air this week because of network pressure: with no writers, and no stars that will break the picket line, what are these shows actually going to air for an hour every night?

Scoble: "It's not the size of your audience, it's what they think of you"
Respected tech columnist has an interesting entry up today, about how to correctly think of one's blog stats; that it's not the raw numbers that are important, but lots of other more elusive factors.

It's official: AOL to permanently kill Netscape browser February 1
It's pretty much a formality at this point, but an official date has been picked for AOL to permanently shut down the Netscape browser, once the greatest success story on the web. Too bad you got greedy!