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If you like comics (and what self respecting Frederator blog readers would admit otherwise?) you wont want to miss any of the daily episodes of PulpSecret the new micro networks from Next New Networks. Conceived by NNN founder Tim Shey and produced by our good friend David Levin PulpSecret’s a regulary compendium (three days a week, with a bonus from the Galacticast producers on Fridays) of what’s up with comics. From Spiderman to Sandman to Mr. Natural you can leave your own video commentary every day.

And you can be a television distribution executive (what you’ve been waiting for). Please spread the word. You can embed an episode on your blog or use the “always fresh” code to put the network on your site where it’ll automatically update with every new episode.

We got this note from a reader, and it’s pretty indicative of how we’re feeling about our blog too:

“…the Frederator empire of blogs, websites, awards, videos and podcasts is FAR to complex for me to navigate with any degree of success. So, a little help?”

We’ve had the same inkling for the past year so our crack development team is on it right now. In fact, I was waiting for an update on progress and deadlines this week. I’ll let you know when I know what’s up.

For those interested in a little background, when we moved the studio blog off of Blogger almost two years ago it was because we were determined to start a “community” blog where the contributors would be the talented filmmakers we work with every day (expanding eventually to include friends of the family). At the time there was no platform capable of intergrating the 40+ cartoons bloggers we were antcipating, and no easy way to search them and give each blogger a discreet URL. So, our friends at Davidville sprung into action nad invented it from scratch.

Longtime readers will recall that about a year in we experienced extreme confusion, with stuff not working and us being frustrated. It turned out that David had built Frederator blogs on a brand new, then rarely used plaform called ‘Rails’ and the internet host couldn’t really support it. That’s how fresh the whole thing was.

And that was all before the complications that Channel Frederator wrought.

Since then blogging platforms have caught up with Davidville’s innovations, allowing for tagging categories, multiple contributors, and lots of other cool stuff. We’re building our blogs on WordPress software, the same stuff many of you have your blogs on. It’s easy to use and the open source community is constantly innovating to make it better. We like innovation, we like ease of use. We think you will too.

Thanks for your patience, as always.

Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve started posting the Random! Cartoons postcards that’ll be used to promote the series towards the end of the year. No credits yet, no bios, just the cards.

The countdown is on. Oh, and I forgot to post this very cool Kevin Smith thing.

(watch the video)

From Tim…..

Comic Book Club is a weekly live comedy / talk show about comic books at The Pit in New York. It’s three stars have also signed on to be the hosts and writers of PulpSecret’s daily news show.

Anyone want to go with me tonight? 9:30, here in midtown.

One of my new internet partners, Tim Shey, wrote this post about the issue of Net Neutrality. Basically, without it the cartoons you post might never get seen by the largest audience unless you make deals with the big communications company. Bad for all us I think.

Wondering what all the fuss over Net Neutrality is about, and whether you should get involved? The good people over at SavetheInternet.com have put together a new video that pretty clearly explains their take on the issues and stakes involved.

The first attempt by big corporations to charge tolls for a fast lane on the Internet was roundly defeated due to popular outcry, but now the coalition of organizations and citizens behind Save the Internet are looking to make net neutrality a law. Please visit their website if you’d like to sign the petition and spread the word.

…but lots of car enthusiasts. Next New Networks wants to be your friend.

As he mentioned yesterday, Random! Cartoons creator & contributor has launched a blog: THE OFFICIAL FRIENDS OF DOOKIE-POO™ FAN CLUB. Well worth the spin, I can assure you.

I told you about Next New Networks, right?

Here’s our first new network.