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Technology in the Arts #48

The Steve Project is a research effort to determine how social tagging can best serve the museum community. Steve is a collaboration of museum professionals that view tagging tools as valuable new mechanisms for describing and accessing museum collections and encouraging visitor engagement with museum objects. Susan Chun and Rob Stein are two of the Steve Project coordinators, and they're Brad's guests this episode.

The song used to close this episode is I'm with Steve Now by thehipcola. The song was downloaded from the Podsafe Music Network, a phenomenal resource for podcasters.

Reminder - If you have any questions or interesting discussion items, please send them to podcast@technologyinthearts.org.

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Technology in the Arts #39

In our most recent episode, Brad interviews Ben Cameron, program director for the arts at Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF).

Ben Cameron From 1998 until he started with the DDCF in July 2006, Ben served as the executive director of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for not-for-profit theatres. Prior to that appointment, he was active in corporate philanthropy, first as senior program officer at the Dayton Hudson Foundation and subsequently as manager of community relations at Target Stores in Minneapolis.

Ben has taught theatre at the Yale School of Drama, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Virginia Tech, and Columbia University.

Reminder - If you have any questions or interesting discussion items, please send them to podcast@technologyinthearts.org.

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Technology in the Arts #15

Podcast - Technology in the Arts #15 In our most recent podcast, Brad and Jason discuss RSS feeds, Web 2.0 - and 3.0! - and busking as art.

Use the following handy-dandy links to follow along with the episode:

Yahoo! Pipes - Very cool multi-RSS tool

MySpace Demise? - An article about the death of social networking

'Pearls Before Breakfast' - Is it wrong to ignore subway musicians when you're sleepy?

Search by Humming - Search for a song by humming into your computer's microphone

Reminder - If you have any questions or interesting discussion items, please send them to podcast@technologyinthearts.org.

Ruprecht, Sotheby's rescuer, talks about global market

This interview with CEO and president of the publicly traded Sotheby's, Bill Ruprecht, makes references to topics such as an art valuation bubble, black markets, and demand. I laughed at myself while reading the article, because on one hand I sympathize with the line of questioning that the interviewer poses, and yet I have my economics professor's voice yelling in my mind, "It's demand you ninny! Of course Sotheby's doesn't create the market."

Thanks goodness for literacy. If I can't excel in the damned class, at least I can identify economics when it's in play.