Margaret Atwood “has signed up to Wattpad to share her writing with its online community of nine million other users. … [She] has posted two new poems on the website, is planning to share a piece of fiction this autumn and will also be the final judge of a poetry contest to be held in July.”
Tag: 06.25.12
Is An Online-Only Museum Really A Museum At All?
“Middlesex University’s Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) closed its public gallery spaces last summer,” going online-only. MoDA’s senior curator insists “that MoDA is still a museum – after all, the point of a museum is to share collections and it will still do that.” She also “reject[s] the term ‘virtual museum’, which she said implies that it doesn’t exist in reality.”
George Orwell On Why He Wrote
“Looking back through the last page or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives in writing were wholly public-spirited. I don’t want to leave that as the final impression. All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”
Why A Silicon Valley Tech Non-Profit Is The Place People Want To Work
“Khan Academy, an educational non-profit, is becoming one of the sexiest workplaces for programmers in Silicon Valley, where stock options, IPOs and big-money acquisitions have long been considered key to luring talent. It’s attracted star coders from companies like Google and Microsoft and, as it grows, has its pick of some of the tech sector’s top engineers.”
Why E-Books Aren’t Taking Off In France
“In contrast to the UK’s famous three-for-two deals, the French state fixes the prices of books and readers pay the same whether they buy online, at a high-street giant or a small bookseller. Discounting is banned. The government boasts that price controls have saved small independent bookshops from the ravages of free-market capitalism that were unleashed in the UK when it abandoned fixed prices in the 1990s.”
Editors At Australia’s Leading Newspapers “Resign”
“The clean-out of editors comes ahead ahead of a major restructure of the two metropolitan broadsheets which will see the end of the traditional news-gathering model and a new structure of five geographical editors-in-chief of Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth.” Last week, the newspapers’ publisher announced 1,900 layoffs at the papers.
Northern Ballet Increases Number Of Dancers After Sponsors Step Up
“The Leeds-based company planned to reduce its dancers from 40 to 30 after a 15% real terms Arts Council cut. Its roll call has now risen to 42 after sponsors made up the funding shortfall.”