“Of all the ideas from the heady days of internet futurism, none is as fraught as “price discrimination,” the practice of charging different rates to different customers for the same product. Price discrimination is a mainstay of the travel industry, where airlines and hotels try all manner of tricks to try and figure out who’s willing to pay more and charge them accordingly.”
Tag: 10.09.12
100 Artists Blast Creative Scotland’s Management As Incompetent
“We observe an organisation with a confused and intrusive management style married to a corporate ethos that seems designed to set artist against artist and company against company in the search for resources. This letter is not about money. This letter is about management.”
Collapse Of The Video Game Market
“The gaming world has found itself teetering at the edge of a financial cliff. In the first eight months of this year retail sales of video games plummeted 20 percent in the United States.”
Cataloguing The World’s Art Online
“With 275 galleries and 50 museums and institutions as partners, Art.sy has already digitized 20,000 images into its reference system, which it calls the Art Genome Project. But as it extends the platform’s reach, Art.sy also raises questions about how (or if) digital analytics should be applied to visual art. Can algorithms help explain art?”
L.A. Philharmonic Ends Cinema Simulcast Series
“Deborah Borda, president of the orchestra, said in a statement that the L.A. Phil Live series ‘was not able to garner the sponsorship required to move forward,’ despite corporate support from Rolex, the luxury watchmaker that was the official sponsor of the cinema series.”