tag:www.artsjournal.com,2008-02-19:/diacritical/54 2010-07-30T18:58:45Z Douglas McLennan's blog Movable Type 4.31-en tag:www.artsjournal.com,2010:/diacritical//54.27036 2010-07-30T17:49:56Z 2010-07-30T18:58:45Z

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. They sell the contest. They sell...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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. They sell the contest. They sell... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2010:/diacritical//54.26199 2010-05-24T13:19:07Z 2010-05-24T13:22:13Z

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 Lang's concert in London over the weekend:He is...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 Lang's concert in London over the weekend:He is... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2010:/diacritical//54.25793 2010-04-18T14:15:03Z 2010-04-21T13:03:29Z

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. Sell a million albums and...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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. Sell a million albums and... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2010:/diacritical//54.25783 2010-04-16T12:26:28Z 2010-04-16T13:37:32Z

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 to be having a rollicking good time, while you...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 to be having a rollicking good time, while you... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2010:/diacritical//54.25774 2010-04-15T17:38:51Z 2010-04-15T17:41:43Z

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 one's own personal ideology, and during that...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 one's own personal ideology, and during that... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.22572 2009-10-02T08:43:38Z 2009-12-21T17:35:36Z

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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 already tried to embed the feed in Blogger and got back an error. Anyone familiar with embedding in Blogger? Leave a...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 already tried to embed the feed in Blogger and got back an error. Anyone familiar with embedding in Blogger? Leave a... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.22279 2009-09-14T01:32:24Z 2009-09-14T14:19:47Z

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 at least...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 at least... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.22020 2009-08-27T22:13:12Z 2009-08-28T06:33:14Z

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 where I...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 where I... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21552 2009-08-03T00:53:46Z 2009-08-03T01:24:43Z

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. When greeting someone on the phone, he insisted, the...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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. When greeting someone on the phone, he insisted, the... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21444 2009-07-23T17:21:02Z 2009-07-24T06:11:19Z

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 could park a Winnebago. A couple of the 14 screens in...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 could park a Winnebago. A couple of the 14 screens in... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21400 2009-07-21T00:17:57Z 2009-07-21T06:41:39Z

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. Traditional marketing strategy had been to get together focus groups and ask...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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. Traditional marketing strategy had been to get together focus groups and ask... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21356 2009-07-20T01:32:19Z 2009-07-20T12:12:56Z

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: products used to compete primarily with...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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: products used to compete primarily with... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21281 2009-07-14T04:33:18Z 2009-07-18T13:30:30Z

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 it was the Experience Economy. We created entertainment around...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 it was the Experience Economy. We created entertainment around... tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/diacritical//54.21240 2009-07-11T18:04:54Z 2009-07-13T05:50:21Z

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 freelancers. In some cases, the freelancers have done...

Douglas McLennan http://www.artsjournal.com/diacritical 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 freelancers. In some cases, the freelancers have done...