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 Summit? Go here.  www.minalhajratwala.com/bloghttp://www.bendofbay.org  http://www.palmbeachartspaper.com    http://www.centerscene.blogspot.com/   http://www.sfcv.org/node/6909 http://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/seeingthings/index.html  http://www.AnnieStrack.blogspot.com http://www.mamaramabook.com/blog/ www.judithingolfsson.com http://evansdonnell.blogspot.com/2009/10/watch-national-summit-on-arts.html http://arts-america.blogspot.com/ http://moppenheim.com http://24seven.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10354/usc-to-hold-arts-journalism-summit/ http://houseseats.uniontrib.com   www.ced.pro.br wideningthei.wordpress.com http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-classical-beat   […]

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 note in the comments at the end of this post and we’ll figure it out.UPDATE […]

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 a couple of other arts sites that are older than AJ. Lori Sparrow of Voice […]

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 need to go, or neutral (other passengers) or helpful (hopefully, airline personnel). Airlines have been […]

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 proper protocol was to exclaim “ahoy!” Saying “hello” was a misuse of his work. You […]

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 the megaplex are Imaxes that surround you with giant images and wrap you in sound. In […]

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 them what they liked in a good sauce. Then groups were asked what characteristics they […]

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 other products in their sector. Jazz competed with other jazz, dance competed with other dance. […]

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 the things we buy (how we justify paying $4.50 for a 50-cent coffee). Now we’re […]

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 a better job than the staffers they have replaced. But mostly not. Running a good […]