According to this in Variety he's using his Venice time to promote Babelgum, a Joost-style TV-over-IP service that's positioning itself at the quality-end of broadcasting by launching a film fest for high-end short films. Lee will be judging, and Babelgum appears to be walking the difficult fine line between Web 2.0 democratisation and trash. Babelgum insist they're not in the user-generated content business and their rules for submission even specify a short needs to have been shown at a bona fide realtime festival to qualify for the online festival (although Spike Lee has apparently made noises about having this changed). Submissions are open from September 15 to February 15. Online viewers will vote through the first selection, before Spike Lee and other jurors take over. Meanwhile Babelgum's showing material from the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. Can't comment on content since it's Windows XP-only and guess what? I'm on a Mac.
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