Clay Shirky doesn't take issue with that. But he suggests that Demand could get into trouble if faced with a competitor that produced slightly better content at the same price. And Demand's business model has an endemic problem. As long as people can type inquiries into search engines that go unmet, Demand has room to grow. But what happens when we get to the end of the tail? Not every question can be profitably answered. "At a certain point," Shirky says, "the time-value of money suggests a limit. What I don't know is, is that limit reached in two years, twenty years, or fifty years?"
When asked by the Wall Street Journal what his plans for the Picasso pictured above that was one of only two lots (the other being a Picasso as well) that failed to meet their reserves in Monday’s sale, Mr. Berge characteristically cut to the chase. . . "I will keep it."
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Analyzes collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present.
The desire to speak in a collective voice has long fueled social imagination and artistic production. Prior to the Second World War, artists understood collectivization as an expression of the promise or failure of industrial and political modernity envisioned as a mass phenomenon. After the war, artists moved beyond the old ideal of progress by tying the radicalism of their political dreams to the free play of differences.
Most sports fans assume that once a stadium or arena is replaced by a newer model, the old house is immediately blown to smithereens in a pyrotechnics show that would make James Cameron proud. But many more than you think are still around. Some have historical value, while others are still bringing in funds to cash-strapped municipalities. Who knows, some may even be available to well-heeled holiday shoppers looking for a last-minute gift.
In 1913 the Italian Futuristic painter and composer Luigi Russolo (1885-1947) published the manifesto L’ Arte dei rumori or the Art of Noises, initially written as a letter to his friend the composer Franscesco Balilla Pratella. The manifesto is the beginning of avant-garde noise. Besides writing the pamphlet, he also made a large serie of experimental musical instrument he called "intonarumori" ("noise machines"). You can read the manifesto here.
