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Nut Up Or Shut Up: The Artist As Critic

It is a strange relationship that exists between artists and critics, with critics reliant upon artists for their prima materia, while artists begrudgingly covet the praise and recognition of the critics. With the rising popularity of art blogs, however, full-time critics are no longer the sole purveyors of this attention, and some of their duties are being assumed by art bloggers and fellow artists. Read more

China and Google Update

These are interviews in French from Aujourd hui la Chine but they are translated here. They speak openly about the significance of Google’s decision and the lack of freedom of expression in China.

Doing journalism in 2010

Nothing frustrates me more than watching journalists who’ve lost their newsroom jobs entering the blogosphere… with no clue as to what they should be doing online. Too few emerging online journalists understand that the function of news publishing has changed in the Internet era. Simply reporting the news, however you might define that, is no longer enough, not when you are publishing in such a competitive environment. The journalists who succeed online are the ones who understand that they are no longer simply reporters… they’ve become community organizers.

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What will you do to make a difference?

Four pieces of advice from .:Bloomberg.com->harvardbusiness.org

France considers taxing Google

Officials say the levy would level the playing field between online firms that offer free music and films and the publishers that lose revenue as a result.

Reporting from Paris - The French government is mulling a so-called Google tax that it said would help to level the playing field between Internet portals that offer free content and the music, film and publishing industries that lost revenue partly because of it.

"The world of culture is not only turned upside-down but profoundly threatened by the development of the Internet, and we hope that our action doesn’t intervene too late," music producer Patrick Zelnik told the French daily Liberation on Thursday.

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True Men Who Stare At Goats

"More of this is true than you would believe," we’re told, just a few minutes into the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, which opens today. But how many of the film’s outlandish military research projects really happened? Turns out there’s plenty of material in the movie which sticks quite close to the truth though reality is a bit more complicated.

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Long Bets in 02010

The Long Now Foundation offers its Long Bets and Predictions, check ’em out.

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African Mobile Initiatives

The November 2009 edition of Mobile Money Africa, Africa’s leading online resource for mobile financial inclusion, is entitled Banking the unbanked Africans and is entirely available for download.

The December edition will focus on Mobile Money and Payment technologies for Africa.

Download magazine (November 2009)

(via David Tait and Niti Bhan)

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Analogue Hybrid Public Spaces

Cement-lined canal and cross-flow system in the Chiregad irrigation system in Nepal (image)

Juan Freire gives his seven observations on hybrid public spaces and analogue commons at the Visualizer Workshop in Medialab Prado, Madrid.

1. What are the commons?, What is the pro-common?
2. Do public spaces suffer from a Tragedy of the Commons or from a Tragedy of the Anti-Commons?
3. Post-modern public space
4. Do public spaces still exist?
5. The hybrid public spaces of the net society
6. The future of hyperlocal networks
7. The hidden face of the hybrid public spaces.

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