Friday, October 1, 2010
If you’re a follower of ArtsJournal blogs, you’ll notice that this blog doesn’t look the same as any of the others. That’s because I’m in the midst of redesigni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:31AM[SHARE]Friday, July 30, 2010
Professional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:49PM[SHARE]Professional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 24, 2010
Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more "familiar" to a generation raised on video screens. Here's a report from Lang La…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:19AM[SHARE]Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more “familiar” to a generation raised on video screens. Here’s a r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 18, 2010
How do you make a living as an artist? In the old mass-culture model you needed a distribution and marketing engine that could fire up on your behalf to reach as many people as possible. Sel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15AM[SHARE]How do you make a living as an artist? In the old mass-culture model you needed a distribution and marketing engine that could fire up on your behalf to reach as many people as possible. Sel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:15AM[SHARE]Friday, April 16, 2010
The NYT's Charles Isherwood writes about what he calls the "odd-man-out" syndrome: This can roughly be described as the experience of attending an event at which much of the audience appears…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 15, 2010
Nick Carr has a great post about the course of technology development. Progress doesn't always go the way we think it ought to (even if we're right).Progress may, for a time, intersect with …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:38PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2009
Thanks to those who volunteered to host a webstream of the Arts Journalism Summit at USC today. Streaming begins at 9AM pdt. See you in a few hours. (Looking for more information about the S…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2009
UPDATE: The first blogs are beginning to sign up to stream: www.createquity.com, www.artsDC.com, http://gatheringnote www.seattledances, www.salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com. One blogger has a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:44AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2009
This week I gave a talk in San Francisco and I mentioned that Sunday - today - ArtsJournal is ten years old. In web terms, that makes us pretty old. Except, in the room were the editors of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2009
I've been on a lot of airplanes recently. Flying isn't much fun, but I like being in other places. So in the process of travel I tend to see those around me as either obstacles to my getting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 2, 2009
Ken Brecher tells this story about Alexander Graham Bell. The inventor of the telephone apparently spent the last part of his life railing against the way people were using his invention. Wh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2009
The latest new-generation movie megaplex recently opened near us. It's got stadium seating, reclining extra-wide luxurious seats with cup holders in the armrests, and so much legroom you cou…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:21PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2009
Choice is good right? Malcom Gladwell does a great talk on how Howard Moskowitz revolutionized marketing by understanding the dynamics of choice. His example here is spaghetti sauce. Traditi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 19, 2009
I was a bit surprised by some of the reaction to my last post on the unsustainability of the ticket sales model in the Attention Economy. Boil down my argument and it's essentially this: pro…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Another lifetime ago we were in the Manufacturing Economy. We made things. Then we were in the Transportation Economy. We outsourced making things and brought whatever we needed to us. Then …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 11, 2009
In the past couple of years, half of all the staff arts journalism jobs in the US have been eliminated. In some cases, newspapers offloading their staff critics have replaced them with freel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:04PM[SHARE] 
