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Tag: 01.15.13
Why Yesterday’s FCC Ruling Threatens An Open Internet
“Without high-level rules of the road, or other replacement high-level rules, the broadband carriers are free to discriminate and block content from consumers.”
Can You Solve MoMA’s Issues With A Redesign?
“You might wonder why we should care if one more quirky little building disappears from the streets of New York. After all, buildings come and go all the time; no one knows this better than architects. But the American Folk Art Museum is a casualty of a different sort, and tearing it down will not usher in the new era of popularity that MoMA seems to be aiming for.”
Pole Dancer Excluded From Exhibition On Women In Sport
“Zahra Stardust says her sport empowers women. Casula Powerhouse sees it differently, and has banned a photograph of the pole dancer from a coming exhibition on women in sport” at a municipal gallery in suburban Sydney.
Islamist Rebels In Mail Are ‘Crushing Culture’
The militias are trying “to impose their authority, so there’s nothing to threaten them. That’s why they are attacking the traditional chiefs and musicians. And they’re using concepts of Islam that are 14 centuries old and have never been applied.”
Remember The Saturday Evening Post? It’s Still Here
Not only did your great-grandparents’ favorite magazine “survive the shakeout of a few years past (and numerous other shakeouts before that), it actually turns a profit. The Post, as it prefers to be known these days, still reaches 350,000 subscribers … and is fat with advertising, hokey though some of it is.”
US National Book Awards To Select Semifinalists For First Time
“In an effort to broaden the reach and impact of the National Book Awards, the National Book Foundation will select a longlist of 10 titles in each of its four categories (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature), beginning in 2013. The longlist (10 titles per category) will be announced five weeks before the finalists (five titles per category) announcement.”
Making Art On The Dancing Body (This Is Not A Metaphor)
In Urban Souls Dance Company’s Canvas and Choreography, “company dancers became human canvases and guests with pots of paint became the surprise artists.”
The Bookless Library – Redefining Access To Information
“This replacement of jacket covers for hard drives is a calculated choice that many other libraries and officials around the nation have also considered, yet — in most cases — quickly abandoned.”
Why HMV Really Failed
“HMV’s problem wasn’t just that it was expensive, compared with the online retailers. It was that, by and large, it had become an awful shopping experience. Where once it was a byword for music shopping, it became – from this music buyer’s perspective – a place of last resort.”