TECHNOLOGIES
944 Things Creative People Can Learn From Spotify
by Adam Leipzig
When you’re a creative person or an entrepreneur, sometimes it feels like you’re working in the salt mines. Grinding work, day after day, pushing out songs or words or business plans.
Let’s do a thought experiment, and pretend that today, instead of being, say, a musician, you actually are making salt.
You dig your salt, package it for More...
When Information Vanishes, We All Grow Weak
Major websites went dark on January 18, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act legislation currently before Congress. We share their concern.
We also share concerns about piracy because Cultural Weekly is in the content-creation business. We support intellectual property rights. That's why we only re-post content from other More...
How was film made? Kodak, in bankruptcy today, took us inside the factory in this 1960s promo
More...Can You Spot the 13 Things That Changed?
by Adam Leipzig
One of the biggest mistakes creative people and entrepreneurs make is that they want everything to be perfect. We generally don’t want to reveal our work to the world until it is finished.
Here, we take a different approach. We know Cultural Weekly will never be finished, because we’re always in dialogue with you. So we keep changing.
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Secret Perils of the Blogosphere
by Adam Leipzig
She said her name was Bethany. “The quality of your content is excellent and I was wondering if I could get an opportunity to guest post on your website,” she emailed me.
When I asked her what she wanted to write about, she told me: “1. Ways of Composing Music. 2. Your Voice Is Your Individuality. 3. Knowing Dance Floor Courtesy.” More...
Save the Democratic Internet
by Tim Karr | Save the Internet
Opponents of the open Internet like to portray its guiding rule, Net Neutrality, as "a government takeover of the Internet."
They argue that from the day of its inception the Internet has existed free of regulation — a perfect expression of the marketplace at work.
What they don’t understand is that the Internet is a far better expression More...
Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive
by George Dyson | The European
George Dyson grew up around the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, built kayaks in Canada and began to think about the internet before personal computers were a household staple. He talked with The European's Martin Eiermann about the definition of life, human progress and the importance of cognitive autarchy.
The European: A computer More...
The Choice
Art works because artists work, and when you steal art (illegally downloading movies or music, for example), you put artists out of work. That's the point of this engaging new video from Creative America.
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Japanese Art that Inspired Robots
Karakuri, a practice that dates to 17th century Japan, is the art of creating automata. Inspired by the watchmakers of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Karakuri, in its turn, inspired 20th century robot inventors (as well as part of the manga aesthetic). In this video, one of the few remaining Karakuri artists keeps the tradition alive.
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