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Creative Industries and Policy Sources
Research linkdump for future critique – unexciting but necessary. Arts and Culture in the New Economy. Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society 32.2 (2002). Culture, Creativity and the Economy: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources. Compiled by Alan Schussman and Kieran Healy, University of Arizona, June 27, 2002 The Measurement of Creative Digital Content. […]
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MP3.com Abandons all Pretence
An ongoing discussion has emerged in response to a post by Lawrence Lessig about mp3.com’s betrayal of its founding principles (or at least its founding sales pitch to artists). (Thanks to Art Machine for the link to this story.) Apparently Lessig (the guy behind Creative Commons) received nothing but a brusque ‘cease and desist’ from […]
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Electronic Music and the Death of the Star(s)
So soon after Johnny Cash passed on, we learned that Australian godfather of lonely-truckdriver country and western music, Slim Dusty, has died at age 76. Here are some thoughts I posted just now in response to a message on aus_emusic about “stars” (and their deaths) in popular music: While the passing of Slim Dusty, Johnny […]
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Organarchy
Just got this link via email: an interview with John Jacobs in Cyclic Defrost. It covers heaps of topics, e.g. activism, protest music, mash-ups, filesharing…here’s an excerpt. Intro: John Jacobs has been an important part of argumentative thinking: through groups like the Jellyheads and Vibetribe, techno agitators Non Bossy Posse, video manipulators Subvertigo, and currently […]
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Stray Book Sighting
As I sat down on the CityCat (a rather suave catamaran ferry thingy that travels up and down the Brisbane river) to travel home from university this afternoon (feeling extremely hot and crumpled), I noticed the girl in the next seat was reading The Secret History – a book that has never left my Top […]
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Australian Creative Resources Archives
Australian Creative Resources Archives – Proposal for the pilot phase: The Australian Creative Resources Archives (ACRA) is a pilot project which will build into a nationally distributed, standardised, high-bandwidth digital archive that makes ‘waste’ materials from Australian cultural production processes available to researchers, the education sector more generally, and to commercial content developers. This waste […]
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Fly, be Free!
Check this out as an example of both an unfettered gift economy and creative ‘consumption’: BookCrossing The ‘3 Rs’ of BookCrossing Read a good book (you already know how to do that) Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book Release it for someone […]
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Democratising Technologies?
A landmark Clay Shirky piece that I’ve just caught up with – in a nutshell, he argues that the widespread adoption of ICTs has made the concept of (media) consumers nonsensical. It rests on some problematic “before” assumptions about media audiences, making the “after” picture even more vibrant – i.e. that we were a passive […]
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Music Maps
City of Sound’s Dan Hill has a very interesting post that gathers together some of the possibilities for creating rhizomatic semantic maps of music, going far beyond the banality of the record industry’s constructions of “genres”. Reflecting on the amazon.com linking systems, he asks, “how can we develop ‘Like this? Try this!’ beyond simple catalogue […]
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Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design
Via Thinking With My Fingers, Fun is Fine: Toward a Philosophy of Game Design