Clay Shirky Figures Out What’s Holding Women Back

“I’m worried … [that] not enough women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. … They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks. They are bad at behaving like self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards, even a little bit, even temporarily, even when it would be in their best interests to do so.” (What, doesn’t he know any opera singers?)

A Design Seminar In The Palm Of Your Hand

The Cooper-Hewitt’s latest show “offers an array of objects and oddities, from household appliances to models for the sets of the musical Hairspray, punctuated by screens showing Web sites in action … But the bulk of the exhibition takes place in the palm of your hand, on a specially programmed iPod Touch … [which] turns the museum into your own private rabbit hole.”

Under Labour Or Tories, Future Of Arts Funding Is Tough

“Speaking at the first ever State of the Arts Conference, organised by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce and Arts Council England, culture secretary Ben Bradshaw and his shadow Jeremy Hunt both gave speeches in which they warned of a more difficult climate for arts funding over the next decade.”