oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:03:00 -0700 We, the social customers. Windows Live + Wordpress.com http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-the-social-customers-windows-live-wordpres http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-the-social-customers-windows-live-wordpres

txt: WordPress.com and Windows Live partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers

 

As we looked at customers’ blogging needs and what different companies were providing, we were particularly interested in what WordPress.com is doing. They have a host of impressive capabilities – from a scalable platform and leading spam protection, to great personalization and customization. WordPress powers over 8.5% of the web, is used on over 26 million sites, and WordPress.com is seen by over 250 million people every month. Not only that, Automattic is a company filled with great people focused on improving blogging experiences. So rather than having Windows Live invest in a competing blogging service, we decided the best thing we could do for our customers was to give them a great blogging solution through WordPress.com.

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Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:25:00 -0700 We, the social consumers. VideoEgg buys Six Apart: Say Media http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-the-social-consumers-videoegg-buys-six-apa http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-the-social-consumers-videoegg-buys-six-apa

VideoEgg buys Six Apart and changes name to Say Media.

txt: saymedia.com/about

A modern media company is rooted in the fact that we rely on our friends and influencers to point us to media that’s worth our time. Only the richest experiences win. A modern media company connects paid and earned media via an integrated brand-marketing platform that yields meaningful and measurable returns. It’s the only accountable way to engage social consumers at scale. A modern media company syndicates absorbing content across digital and mobile environments, lighting the way for brands and creators. The result is attention, and the reach is 330 million people a month. SAY Media is a modern media company.

 

video: SAY Media Explained on vimeo.com

 

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Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:32:00 -0700 youLife in a tubeDay http://oddtag.posterous.com/youlife-in-a-tubeday http://oddtag.posterous.com/youlife-in-a-tubeday

txt: lifeinaday - youtube.com

 

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world's largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.

 

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Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:11:07 -0800 Like a customer (with rights that are respected) http://oddtag.posterous.com/like-a-customer-with-rights-that-are-respecte http://oddtag.posterous.com/like-a-customer-with-rights-that-are-respecte txt: Big change in the tech world - Dave Winer www.scripting.com
Think about how you're treated by airlines. By insurance companies. If you have to go to a hospital. That's the kind of relationship you have with Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. Sooner or later there will be a massive oil spill or a massive network-wide security breach. Expect these companies to be every bit as bad as the ones in other industries. Probably worse because they've come so far without much oversight or scrutiny. Recently Google was given permission to trade energy. Who are these companies? We have no idea. If you want to know what you can do, great -- there are things you can do. Buy your own services and put your content in places where you are treated like a customer with rights that are respected. That's still possible. In many industries it's no longer possible, but you can get that kind of service on the Internet now, but you have to pay for it.

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:17:42 -0800 We become our media http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-become-our-media http://oddtag.posterous.com/we-become-our-media txt: Why Brands are Becoming Media - mashable.com
There’s a saying in theater: A big part of acting is reacting. This is especially true when we consider how many individuals, brands, and organizations engage on the web today. Instead of seeking inspiration and direction from those around us however, we simply react to activity, which may or may not benefit us in the long run. The democratization of publishing and the equalization of influence allows us to create and connect with a wider reach. Everything starts with a mission, and is fortified by the content we create. Among the most valuable resources we procure through dedicated publishing is good will, social capital, and influence. It comes at a price however: The cost of production, distribution, and support. In the end, you get out what you put in. The investment represents time, money, creativity, and passion. Thus, we not only become our media — through production and engagement, we can become influential.

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:52 -0800 Links As News, Links As Art http://oddtag.posterous.com/links-as-news-links-as-art http://oddtag.posterous.com/links-as-news-links-as-art txt: Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - publishing2.com
Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review has a practical guide to linking on the web, where he observes: "Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of online pages with extra information relating to the story, he or she cannot link to them. But if you have that information, why not share it with those readers who are eager for it?" Again, I would take this a step further — links aren’t just a fundamental element of the reporting. Links can BE the reporting.
video: Linkin Park - What I've Done ooops! What they've Done? the video is no longer avalilable. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ]

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Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:09:46 -0800 What is art? Hahahahaha http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-art-hahahahaha http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-art-hahahahaha via: Art To Go via2: Anna Conti's Working Artist's Journal txt: comments on video "Creature Comforts USA - Art"
estherfull (21 hours ago) OMG loved this, my whole art class watched this during class and we couldnt stop laughing!!!! Especially the dog who does print because our last project was on making woodcuts and printing. juliejuliex2 (2 weeks ago) obviously, some of you dont know that these are answers to questions that have been asked to your normal average "joe" on the streets of Wherever USA. Or wherever in the world. So, just enjoy the humor and giggle a little...it's better than a frown. besides, smiling uses just 8 or so muscles whereas frowning uses like 25 muscles in your face. so some of you must be getting a good workout
video: Creature Comforts USA - Art - coolartandstuff on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDo_vs3Aip4]

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Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:01:17 -0800 The Art: A False Idol After All? http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-a-false-idol-after-all http://oddtag.posterous.com/the-art-a-false-idol-after-all txt: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
For more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise. So wise that the proper role for government is to steer clear and not mess with the gusher of wealth that will flow, trickling down to the every level of society, if only the market is left to do its magic.
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Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:28:12 -0800 Desperate Artivores http://oddtag.posterous.com/desperate-artivores http://oddtag.posterous.com/desperate-artivores txt: The death of the cultural elite - blogs.guardian.co.uk
The Oxford report, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, delineates four groups: univores, who like popular culture; omnivores, who like everything from Posh Spice to Puccini; paucivores, who absorb little culture; and inactives, who absorb none (is that possible?). There aren't enough ageing judges to justify a separate group of artivores.
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Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:09:54 -0800 They've bought even the caos http://oddtag.posterous.com/theyve-bought-even-the-caos http://oddtag.posterous.com/theyve-bought-even-the-caos txt: The Colour of Money - www.frieze.com
But what about the artists who effectively harness the commercial forces of our cultural moment, which Saltz and his editors at New York find so distasteful? Their post-Warholian impact on the current artistic landscape cannot be dismissed with simplistic ethical arguments: money is bad, so art tainted by it is also bad. The fact is that there is no way to escape the market: it absorbs subversion and packages dissent, selling us an image of ourselves as conscientious objectors even when we are deeply entrenched in its system.
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Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:26:03 -0800 Mission possible/impossible/don't know http://oddtag.posterous.com/mission-possibleimpossibledont-know http://oddtag.posterous.com/mission-possibleimpossibledont-know txt from: Extraordinary daily[article in italian]
"If the mission of art has been to propose new ways of conceiving and feeling to everybody - and not to just a narrow circle of people - not just on special occasions but in everyday life, then it becomes necessary to think about the fact that maybe the art has completed his historic task. Better: design has taken charge of that task, and it is nowadays at the forefront in the job of displacement, erosion, activation, modulation on the edge between possible/impossible, real/surreal, daily/extraordinary."
img from: A Banksy beside a bar in Shoreditch - by What What on Flickr.com
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Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:43:52 -0700 Illustrate me the art of wisdom, please http://oddtag.posterous.com/illustrate-me-the-art-of-wisdom-please http://oddtag.posterous.com/illustrate-me-the-art-of-wisdom-please via: www.personism.com And if you love illustration: Linzie Hunter's Flickr sets Linzie Hunter: Don’t Put Off Your Happy Life
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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:21:07 -0700 ArtFutura 2008 http://oddtag.posterous.com/artfutura-2008 http://oddtag.posterous.com/artfutura-2008 ArtFutura 2007 - The Next Web - 25-28 October
Barcelona Alicante Cádiz Granada Madrid Murcia Palma de Mallorca San Sebastián Valladolid Vigo Vitoria Zaragoza The eighteenth edition of the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity that has become a point of reference in Spain will take place in more than eleven cities from the 25 to the 28 October with an extensive program that will explore the most important projects and ideas that have arisen on the international panorama of new media, interactive design, videogames and digital animation over the last 12 months.
The 2.0 revolutions that have taken place over the last two years have completely changed the face of the Web. They have transformed it into a space of social participation and collective cooperation that the first theorists of cyber culture of the early 90s would never have imagined. However, along with the boom of participative social networks on the web, some of the original utopias that understood Internet as an opportunity to build a parallel and autonomous world with its own rules have also regained strength. Among those who are starting to form the rules of a Web 3.0 and those who continue to defend a net understood as a large forum for the social debate of our time, we are starting to see the beginnings of a next web.
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Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:11:26 -0700 Rome POP invaderz http://oddtag.posterous.com/rome-pop-invaderz http://oddtag.posterous.com/rome-pop-invaderz
Two Italian chicks in cahoots with more of 50 new-POP artists from allover the world get into her head to improve our existences. The first Italian exposition is here to demonstrate that the new-pop movement is destined to everybody and art is it’s not dead at all.
POP INVADERZ Curators / a cura di: The MondoPOPs (Serena Melandri & Ilaria Beltramme) e David Vecchiato ...e si ringrazia: Betty & Books (Bologna) Text / con un testo critico di: Demetrio Paparoni When? / Quando: From 19/10 To 06/11 2007 - Dal 19 ottobre al 6 novembre 2007 Where? / Dove: MondoPOP International Gallery & Shop, via dei Greci 30 (M Spagna) Roma. Open / Apertura:lunedì h. 16,00/20,00, dal martedì al sabato dalle h. 10.30 alle h 20,00 image and text from: www.mondopop.it
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Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:27:55 -0700 What Is Art and Why Does It Matter? http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-art-and-why-does-it-matter http://oddtag.posterous.com/what-is-art-and-why-does-it-matter
What Is Art and Why Does It Matter? "is an online magazine that creates a forum for interpretive experimentation and gives a face to the people who make museums a vibrant presence in the world. This magazine is here because we all “know” that art is important, but do we always know why? Looking at art can provide a much needed refuge for reflection, sympathy, quietude, inspiration, and even ecstasy in this increasingly chaotic world. Looking further can deepen knowledge of cultures and artistic practice, develop and hone observational skills, reveal insights into history that other documents can't, and encourage creative, analytical, and autonomous thinking. Art can be funny, and it can make you cry, too. We want you to find a way in. And the best way to find a way into anything is to look closely and ask a lot of questions. Enjoy."
Anna Hammond - Deputy Director for Education, Programs, and Public Affairs - Yale University Art Gallery - "What is art" magazine Contemporary art is estrangement, alienation, displacement that allow you to think, to see things. And/or "refuge for reflection, sympathy, quietude, inspiration, and even ecstasy in this increasingly chaotic world." I love art for that.
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John Baldessari (American, born 1931) - Solving Each Problem As It Arises, 1967 Acrylic on canvas, 67 3/4 x 56 1/2 in. (172.1 x 143.5 cm) - The Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
"This work is one of a small group of text and phototext paintings on canvas that Baldessari commissioned from a sign painter in 1967. His decision to use text in this work, not as decoration but as information, reflected his commitment to infuse reality into high art through didactic, confessional image making. Although the works in this series were drawn from textbooks, course lessons, and popular culture, Baldessari presented them on canvas in order to locate the logic of their creation within the context of painting. This work builds on the conceptual foundation of artists like Marcel Duchamp, who questioned methods of production in high art."
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