“For media firms, an app pact with Facebook is Faustian by nature: it may achieve virality, but it involves letting Facebook keep their customers within the confines of its walled garden. There’s a whiff of desperation about the whole idea, like record companies trying to mitigate declining sales by giving up control to Apple. Twitter, on the other hand, is all about links to the rest to the web.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Readers Give Money, But Publishers Don’t Know How To Take It
“Reading behavior on the Web is incredibly fragmented. Nobody reads from just 15 or 20 sites a month. People read from hundreds of sites a month, creating a vast long tail of publishers. And the great majority of those publishers never registered. Out of the millions–yes, millions–of domains that flowed through Readability, just over 2,000 registered to claim their money. As a result, most of the money we collected–over 90%–has gone unclaimed.”
“There Are No Asians In The 1800s!” – The Continuing Saga Of Theatre And Asian-Americans
“I have a stand up set that pokes fun at stereotypes and assumptions about being Asian and being in theater. I rarely perform it now because afterwards people seem to be reminded I’m Asian for the first time, and oftentimes have an endless stream of really helpful additional jokes to add or awkward comments to make about it all.”
Parks Canada Minister Tries (And Pretty Much Fails) To Reassure First Nations People, Academics About Artifact Move
“In Nova Scotia, academic, Mi’kmaq and Acadian groups have come forward to say the move should be abandoned, because the decision came without consultation, and because they believe artifacts should remain near the ancestral grounds where they were found.” The minister: But it’s more cost-effective to store them in Quebec.
Longest-Running Experimental Theatre In The U.S. Survives With Crowd-Sourced Fundraising, And The Doors
“Fundraising sites such as Lucky Ant, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo have become increasingly popular for independent artists and theater companies. Across social networks, the theater’s website, and mainstream media, the Living Theatre displayed the link to its designated page on Lucky Ant alongside a plea to ‘save the living.’ The Doors’ Facebook page, which has more than 11 million fans, helped by posting the message, ‘The Living Theater needs your help. Donate now to save TLT, just like Jim Morrison did in 1969.'”
David Brooks Is Lazy In His Criticism Of Eisenhower Memorial (And He Doesn’t Understand Memorials In General)
Philip Kennicott: “No surprise, Brooks likes the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials because they invite you to look up at the great man. He argues that more recent memorials ‘evade the thorny subjects of strength and power.’ The Maya Lin-designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial is ‘about tragedy’ while the Korean memorial ‘is about vulnerability.’ But these are war memorials, not monuments to individuals. They aren’t about leadership, but rather about the most colossal failure of leadership.”
New Orleans Still Needs A Print Paper, And So Does Your Town
Why? Terrible web design. Advance Publications websites “all have the same generic design template. They are run independently of the affiliated local newspapers, sometimes by non-journalists, and it shows. They are generic, ugly and notoriously hard to navigate.” And that’s putting it mildly.
One Guy (And His 500 Workers) In India, Hammering Out Chain Mail For Hollywood
Rai “recently traveled to the Kaiserburg Museum in Nuremberg, Germany, to study the kind of metalwork detail that went into making suits of armor. For a recent order of World War II helmets, he ensured the leather liners were stamped with numbers used by the original manufacturers. That kind of effort, he says, helps protect his business from competition. ‘This is painstaking, labor-intensive work. There’s a lot of research that has gone into our inventory, and that’s not easy to replicate,’ he said.”
Chileans Arrested During Protest Of Pro-Pinochet Film
“The protesters decried the film as revisionist history. ‘This is a homage to a murderer and a thief, responsible for deaths, torture and exile,’ said Bárbara Riquelme, who said her father, Samuel Riquelme, a former chief detective, was arrested and severely tortured after the coup. ‘This government should have denied permission for this homage, but it didn’t, because it also has blood on its hands.'”
How To Get More Women Playwrights In Theatres? Balance The Stories You Tell
“Stories work in two ways: they either deepen the pathways and associations we already have in our brains, reminding us of what we’ve already learned, or they create new pathways and associations, helping us explore new ideas and possibilities.”