The opportunity for women’s writing to reach a wide audience online is limitless, at least in theory. Of course, the preponderance of bylines in the most august-and the most high-paying-magazines and newspapers are still male. But as those dinosaurs fade into obscurity, the scales will naturally shift in women’s favour. Unless, of course, they won’t. It’s just possible that they won’t.
Tag: 10.26.09
Canadian Opera Co. Expands Broadcasts, On-Demand Streaming
“The COC announced on Monday a plan to record and broadcast all seven of its mainstage productions during the 2009-2010 season, working in conjunction with current partner CBC/Radio-Canada. … The operas will also be available via streaming from the COC website and Radio 2’s Concerts on Demand, for 12 months after each title’s internet debut.”
Ingmar Bergman’s Island Home To Become A Swedish Yaddo
“The rustic properties on the Baltic island of Fårö – where the director Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, produced several of his films and died – will become a nonprofit retreat for artists and scholars.”
Memo To Hulu: Make Us Pay
Chadwick Matlin: “If Hulu’s overlords force it to charge users, it will be the ultimate vote of confidence for the site. … Hulu has gotten to this point only because of how successful its free-content model was in the first place.”
The ’60s Are Truly Over: Hendrix Massed Guitar Event In SanFran Implodes
“An attempt to top the Guinness world record for largest guitar ensemble, with 3,000 players performing Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Purple Haze’ at Sunday’s West Fest concert in Golden Gate Park, fell short by about 2,950 participants – and some of those may have been playing ukuleles.”
Placido Domingo Remakes Himself As A Baritone
“Other singers have made the shift — what is unusual is that a tenor should return to his baritone roots at the end of his career. Critics have suggested that the conversion is part of an elaborate preretirement strategy; the singer hoping to end his career on, so to speak, a low note.”
E-Books Draw More Readers To Libraries
“Only a handful of libraries have started to offer the service, but many in the library world are hopeful that the revolution in digital reading can help transform libraries’ fortunes, and that the majority of libraries will soon offer downloads as a matter of course, alongside the latest Dan Brown paperback.”
Did Moliere Suspect? Study Links Miserliness, Testosterone
“‘Our broad conclusion is that testosterone causes men essentially to be stingy,’ says Karen Redwine, a neuro-economist at Whittier College in California, who presented the work at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in Chicago last week.”
Off-Screen Odds Have Narrowed For Women In Indie Film
“While prospects for women in the independent film world are rosier than for studio films, the number of females employed in key behind-the-scenes roles in both low- and high-budget movies remains piddling. In fact, [a new] study showed, the number of female directors and cinematographers actually has declined over the past decade.”
Indian Movies A Growing Niche For U.S. Cinemas
“As the Indian film industry has mushroomed — surpassing Hollywood as the most prolific producer of movies — distributors of Bollywood and regional Indian films have been eager to broaden their global appeal, especially in the U.S., which accounts for as much as 70% of their movies’ foreign box office.”