“Reading behavior on the Web is incredibly fragmented. Nobody reads from just 15 or 20 sites a month. People read from hundreds of sites a month, creating a vast long tail of publishers. And the great majority of those publishers never registered. Out of the millions–yes, millions–of domains that flowed through Readability, just over 2,000 registered to claim their money. As a result, most of the money we collected–over 90%–has gone unclaimed.”
Tag: 06.12.12
Longest-Running Experimental Theatre In The U.S. Survives With Crowd-Sourced Fundraising, And The Doors
“Fundraising sites such as Lucky Ant, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo have become increasingly popular for independent artists and theater companies. Across social networks, the theater’s website, and mainstream media, the Living Theatre displayed the link to its designated page on Lucky Ant alongside a plea to ‘save the living.’ The Doors’ Facebook page, which has more than 11 million fans, helped by posting the message, ‘The Living Theater needs your help. Donate now to save TLT, just like Jim Morrison did in 1969.'”
New Orleans Still Needs A Print Paper, And So Does Your Town
Why? Terrible web design. Advance Publications websites “all have the same generic design template. They are run independently of the affiliated local newspapers, sometimes by non-journalists, and it shows. They are generic, ugly and notoriously hard to navigate.” And that’s putting it mildly.
Thomas Pynchon Gives In, Allows His Novels To Become E-Books
“For the first time, Thomas Pynchon’s back catalog will be available as e-books starting Wednesday. Pynchon was a major writer whose absence from the e-book canon was notable – particularly since his most avid readers tend to be intellectually curious, the kind of people who are often technology’s early adopters.”
A Regional Company Touring A Ring Cycle In This Economy? England’s Opera North Pulls It Off
The Leeds-based troupe, which is presenting one opera a year in four cities, is offering an enhanced concert-style staging not unlike Bill Viola’s Tristan Project, with singers in modified concert-dress performing fully-staged movement and an elaborate video “commentary” shown on screens above the orchestra.
How Does Shirley MacLaine Prepare For Her Roles?
“Not at all. I read the script through once, and that’s it. … Because at the bottom of my heart I’m still a dancer: I can only learn my text along with the particular bodily movements and gestures.”
Want To Better Hear The Music You’re Performing? Try Earplugs
“Professional musicians are slightly bemused at why you’d want to cut off sound, but musically it helps me a lot. It’s easier to get in touch with this idealized sense of music.”
Reality TV Amps Up The Emotions As The Competition Gets Tougher
“As reality TV gets meaner (combative contestants appear to be chosen for their warm relationship with psychopathy,) it gets softer and sweeter at the same time.”
Turkey Refuses Antiquities Loans As It Demands Repatriation Of Its Art
“European museums that are being targeted include the Louvre, Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum, the British Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In America, claims are being lodged against New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cleveland Museum of Art and Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.”
Thomas Kinkade’s Wife, Girlfriend Battle In Court Over $66 Million Estate
“Amy Pinto-Walsh, a petite woman with long dark hair, has produced barely legible, handwritten notes she claims Kinkade wrote, giving her the keys to his Monte Sereno mansion and $10 million to establish a museum of his original paintings there.”