Cultural leaders in Orlando offered an odd response to the current economic crisis with their latest decision about the proposed $425 million Dr. P. Phillips Orlando Performing Arts Center. With a tough economy and missed targets on their fundraising, they’ve decided that architects should continue with detailed construction blueprints on the facility, while they wait […]
Archives for April 2009
In Philly
I’m in Philadelphia through Sunday for two conferences back-to-back: First up is a session for the annual arts-participation grantee convening of The Wallace Foundation, where I’m co-presenting on the strategy of social media with Museum 2.0 blogger Nina Simon. The main event (at least for me, since I’m president) is the annual conference of the […]
The iLibrary of iCongress
As essential printed content is increasingly available on-line through Google Books, Open Library, and other digitization projects, the Library of Congress has announced initiatives to upload more of other forms of media as well. Macworld and others report on the library’s plans to post film, video, image, and audio materials on iTunes, Flickr, and YouTube, […]