“The potential is vast. But the pitfalls are significant too. Not only could it change the way history is told but there are wider questions about who has the rights to guard the web’s past and, inevitably in these post-Snowden leak times, what the availability of this data means for individual privacy. So what is the best way to make history from the internet?”
Tag: 04.12.14
Religion Vs. Science: The Battle America Just Can’t Get Past
Andrew O’Hehir: “We already had this debate, which occupied a great deal of the intellectual life of Western civilization in the 18th and 19th centuries, and it was a whole lot less stupid the first time around.”
It’s Record Store Day (And After A Rough Few Years They’re Doing Pretty Well)
“We live in a time when running a record store or shopping at a record store is cool in popular culture. People are looking for that experience, which they can’t get from the latest downloading or streaming service.”
Satellite Radio Is Changing The Music Business
“New music services from Sirius, Pandora, Spotify and others are starting to disrupt Nashville’s long-closed ecosystem, even as terrestrial broadcasters pour their resources into amassing country listeners, who are generally wealthier, better educated and more likely to use social media than fans of other genres, according to their research.”
So Canada’s National Broadcaster Is Going To Have To Reinvent. What Should A New CBC Look Like?
“What CBC TV needs most of all, and soon, is a dose of the cool factor. And it doesn’t necessarily cost a ton of money to become cool.”
The Book Blurb Economy
“The omnipresent, gushing blurbs on the covers all clamour for our attention, but can we trust them? Why do authors write them? And why do publishers insist on them?”
How We Live – The Connectedness Problem
“The ubiquity of smartphones, and employers’ insistence that we keep them on, has morphed the traditional workday into something stretchy and inconsistent: Now, even when you are not in the office, you are very likely still working.”
Artists Who Want Corporate Support Without ‘Selling Out’ Now Have A Broker
“‘Katie’s like a translator,’ said Jasmine Solano, 27, the featured D.J. at the W that Saturday evening. ‘She can translate artist language into corporate planning. That’s not easy to do.'”
Wonder Woman Was Supposed To Save The World For Peace. What Happened?
“The Golden Age of comics was chock-full of angry, violent male superheroes, so Marston created an alternative. He believed that women were superior to men, and that they would soon take over the world and usher in an age of peaceful matriarchy. Wonder Woman was his way to prepare young minds for the idea of a strong, capable woman, so as to better facilitate the coming matriarchy.”
Hollywood Decides Christians Have Money, Should Have Movies
“Persuading religious leaders to talk up the movies in a church setting as a means of sparking larger conversations about spiritual uplift has become a top priority in creating the kind of pre-release awareness that can lead to massive ticket sales.”