“In auctions that are exclusively on the web, conducted without the benefit of a live auctioneer or a live audience, prices have not come close to reaching the stratosphere; $1 million is the high bar, rarely reached.”
Month: November 2014
Another Round Of Protests Over Worker Conditions In Building Abu Dhabi Museums
“Much of the work on Saadiyat Island, which is also home to a branch of the Louvre and a New York University campus, is done by foreign migrants. Critics say workers are forced to work long hours, are housed in deplorable conditions and have been subject to police raids and beatings if they object.”
The Exciting World Of Brain Science? (The Public Doesn’t Care)
“Maybe the research investment and brain-obsessed media headlines are largely irrelevant to the general public. I looked into this question recently and was surprised by what I found.”
Here’s An Idea: Streaming Music Services Won’t Succeed Without Collaborating With Songwriters
“Streaming is undoubtedly the wave of the future, and when streaming companies value songwriters, the sky’s the limit. It’s time they start collaborating with the music creators they depend on, otherwise they may never, ever, ever get back together.”
Study: “Entitled” People Are More Creative?
“Our results suggest that people who feel entitled value being different from others. The greater their need for uniqueness, the more they break convention, think divergently, and give creative responses.”
Don’t Say It.. No…No…- The “Netflix Of Books” Has Arrived
“Little more than a year after launching its all-you-can-read ebook service, the San Francisco startup Scribd has announced that the service now offers more than 30,000 audiobooks, including titles from big-name publishing houses HarperCollins and Scholastic as well as audiobook-specialist Blackstone. For $8.99 a month, you can not only read as many books as you can find on the service, but also listen to as many audiobooks as you can find.”
How Language Becomes Slang
“What counts as slang? Where does it come from? And why does it exert such a powerful hold on the middle–class imagination?”
LA Pols Approve Roadmap For New $600 Million LA County Museum Of Art
“If there are no serious bumps in the road ahead, the plan would yield a streamlined, curving 410,000-square-foot new museum building designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor that would open in 2023, spanning Wilshire Boulevard with an enclosed bridge that doubles as gallery space.”
Pianist Versus Critic, Round 3: Anne Midgette Says Dejan Lazic Has A Point
“I don’t agree that the review should be taken down. But I do think it’s worth discussing, in this evolving internet climate, the way that decisions are effectively made about what information clings to you and what falls away.”
Here’s What Happens When You Block Google From Showing Snippets Of Your Content
Germany’s largest news publisher, Axel Springer (Bild), wanted Google to pay licensing fees for showing the typical brief excerpts from its articles in search results. So, for two weeks, it barred the search engine from doing so. And how badly did that backfire?