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ArtsJournal's New Look

December 10, 2006 by Douglas McLennan 25 Comments

Actually it's more than just a new look. The entire website has been rebuilt from the ground up. Why change something that's simple and easy to use and has worked well for the past four years? Content management systems have advanced considerably since we last rebuilt ArtsJournal, and the new system will allow us more flexibility in compiling and delivering ArtsJournal. New News Format The first … [Read more...]

The Way-Behind Blogger

November 13, 2006 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

As my post below says, right after I started this blog I embarked on a major overhaul of ArtsJournal. The site hasn't been upgraded in about four years, and it was time. Of course it's taken much longer than I ever expected. The first version of AJ took about a week. I got the idea to do the site on a Tuesday, the next day I registered the name, got a web host and bought some books on html. By … [Read more...]

Sorry for the silence…

October 14, 2006 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Right after I launched this blog I delved into a major redesign of the ArtsJournal website. It's been four years since the last redesign and not only has the look of the site become a little creaky, but the backend has needed some major work as well. The new ArtsJournal will have some new features and the blogs will play more of a role. So I'll be back blogging later this week after I finish the … [Read more...]

A New Video Age

September 20, 2006 by Douglas McLennan 3 Comments

In just about a year-and-a-half, YouTube has become the biggest website on the internet. Each day 65,000 videos are uploaded to the site. One hundred million videos are streamed from the site everyday. It's an amazing service - easy to use both as a watcher and as an uploader. People are adding video of every kind, from things they've shot themselves to current TV to classic videos. Video is … [Read more...]

The Best Culture Coverage?

September 19, 2006 by Douglas McLennan 4 Comments

I like the Guardian. Though it has a good stable of writers, its biggest strength is its editing. The Guardian is a consistently lively read day in and day out. This is a paper that isn't afraid to argue with itself. A critic might sound off on some topic one day, only to be contradicted a few days later by another critic. A day after that the head of the National Theatre is weighing in to tell … [Read more...]

But First, A Blog?

September 18, 2006 by Douglas McLennan 3 Comments

Over the past three years I have talked a couple hundred people into blogging. While I've never considered ArtsJournal itself a blog, it does satisfy one reason to blog - pointing readers towards interesting things elsewhere on the web, and I think of the skein of these stories as a curated conversation about culture and ideas. There's been an explosion in the number of blogs about culture in the … [Read more...]

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Douglas McLennan

I’m the founder and editor of ArtsJournal, which was founded in September 1999 and aggregates arts and culture news from all over the internet. The site is also home to some 60 arts bloggers. I’m a … [Read More...]

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Our culture is undergoing profound changes. Our expectations for what culture can (or should) do for us are changing. Relationships between those who make and distribute culture and those who consume it are changing. And our definitions of what artists are, how they work, and how we access them and their work are changing. So... [Read more]

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