Technology in the Arts #43

In our most recent episode, Brad interviews podcast superstar Leo Laporte. Yes, we agree... the arts connection is a bit loose on this one, but Brad's a Leo fanboy so cut him some slack.

Handy dandy episode links:

• TWiT Live - Leo's live video feed
• Stickam - Leo's weapon of choice for streaming video
• Aviary - Leo's cool Web tool, which is currently in beta and open only to invitees

The song used in this episode is The Lion Sleeps No More by Amaryoni. 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 #42

In our most recent episode, Brad travels to Waterloo, Ontario, with David Dombrosky and Josh Futrell to attend Technology in the Arts: Canada. The Center for Arts Management and Technology partnered with the University of Waterloo's Centre for Cultural Management to present the two-day event. During the conference, Brad presented a podcast workshop and Josh presented a lecture on content management systems. David mostly just rode around on a moose drinking maple syrup. (Actually, he was instrumental in coordinating the conference programming.)

This episode features Brad's interviews with:

• Linda Rogers, executive director of the Toronto Philharmonia
• Justine Greenland Duke, consultant and Technology in the Arts: Canada steering committee member
• Adam Pollard, attendee from the Woodstock Museum
• Bill Poole, director of UW's Centre for Cultural Management

The song used in this episode is Vantastic Eastern Canadian Road Trip Blues by the Canadian band The Superfantastics. The song was downloaded from the Podsafe Music Network, a superfantastic 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 #41

In our most recent episode, Brad flies solo and offers an overview of CAMT's 2008 summer tour. Now if we only had some groupies to follow us around... Also, Brad attends the Association of Arts Administration Educators Annual Conference and interviews the group's president, Andrew Taylor. Taylor is director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an MBA degree program and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business, and the author of the blog The Artful Manager.

Finally, Brad interviews filmmaker Paul Germain, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Master of Arts Management program, about his new documentary Speedy Delivery. Germain and his crew followed David Newell, best known as Mr. McFeely on the hugely popular children's show Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

CAMT's 2008 summer tour schedule:

What?	Where?	When?
Technology in the Arts: Canada	Waterloo, Ontario	May 9-10, 2008
National Performing Arts Convention	Denver, CO	June 10-14, 2008
Americans for the Arts Annual Convention	Philadelphia, PA	June 20-22, 2008
American Association of Community Theatre's NYC Convention	New York, NY	July 10-13, 2008

Cool Sites of the Episode

Brad: SpeedyDeliveryMovie.com - Web site for Paul Germain's documentary, Speedy Delivery

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 #40

In our most recent episode, Brad and Jason answer a listener's questions, including: 1. Why is Google saying my site is evil? 2. What are the best ways for artists to market themselves online?

Also, Brad attends Museums and the Web 2008 in Montreal, Canada, and interviews Web usability gurus Michael Twidale, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Paul Marty, associate professor at Florida State University's College of Information.

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

Google's Harmful Site Info - Are Google's search results saying a Web site may be harmful? Here is some info to help make sense of that scary message.

SQL Injections - Some information about SQL injections: What are they? How do I fix it? How do I prevent them?

Paul Marty's Usability Info - A great place to start your research on simple, affordable Web usability testing.

Don't Make Me Think - A great book about Web site usability.

Cool Sites of the Episode

Jason: weatherbonk.com - Personalized weather and traffic information.

Brad: WordPress.com and WordPress.org - A great blogging platform that can also be used as a content management system. We've talked about it before, but Brad thought it was worth a mention, as the new Technology in the Arts site is built entirely in WordPress.

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).

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 #38

In our most recent episode, Brad interviews Jonathan Coulton, an independent musician known by millions of geeks as the guy who wrote the song Still Alive for the award-winning console game Portal.

Coulton discusses his use of Creative Commons and other online practices to build a rabid and connected fan base.

Creative Commons allows an artist to apply a standard copyright and then scale back the restrictions. While many musicians and record executives are trying to find ways to lock down their songs, Coulton has found a way to make money giving his music away. (But please... be kind and pay what you can. The guy's good and deserves to eat.)

Check out Coulton's songs here.

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Technology in the Arts #37

In our most recent episode, Brad and Jason discuss Google's new free collaboration tool and why you sometimes get more than you pay for... even if you pay nothing! Use the following handy-dandy links to follow along with the episode:

Google Sites - Quickly create a network of internal or external sites for free. You can add and edit pages, attach documents and upload audio and video files.

PC Mag's 157 Best Free Software List - Amazing software that can be yours for the low, low price of nothing.

Mac OS X Server Software - With a little effort and a bit of cash, you can set up your own Mac-based internal network.

Cool Sites of the Episode

Brad & Jason: hillaryismomjeans.com - Our special presidential campaign edition. Tell the world what Hillary Clinton is doing at this ridiculously simple yet highly addictive and popular Web site.

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 #36

In our most recent episode, Brad and Jason discuss "crowdsourcing" and technology portfolio management. Use the following handy-dandy links to follow along with the episode:

CNN's iReport - You report the news by submitting photos, videos and stories.

Vocalo.org - Chicago Public Radio's content sharing site.

The Kennedy Center - Since opening in 1971, the Kennedy Center has continued its efforts to fulfill his vision—presenting the greatest performers and performances from across America and around the world, nurturing new works and young artists, and serving the nation as a leader in arts education.

Cool Sites of the Episode

Jason: www.mikedaisey.com - Site of the self-proclaimed "actor, author, commentator, playwright and general layabout."

Brad: Siti Extended Ensemble (SEE) - The interactive online community for SITI Company.

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 #35

In our most recent episode, Brad interviews Peter Jaszi, co-author of a new study by the Center for Social Media at American University that examines user-generated content with respect to copyright issues. The study was conducted by Center director Pat Aufderheide and Jaszi, co-director of the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. The study shows that many online videos using copyrighted material could be protected under fair use policies.

Fair use, a hotly debated concept that lacks clear guidelines, allows for the quoting of copyrighted material without asking permission or paying royalties. The study warns that perfectly legal and valuable social commentary might be curbed by major content holders' (Sony, NBC, Viacom, etc.) new practices for controlling piracy.

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Technology in the Arts #34

In our most recent episode, Brad and Jason present their list of New Year's resolutions every arts organization should make in 2008. Technology Resolutions Every Arts Organization Should Make for 2008

1. JASON: Research and Experiment. There are plenty of free, online or downloadable demos for all kinds of software.

2. BRAD: Back up your data. Buy an external hard drive and buy a backup software. If you have Mac's new Leopard operating system, you can use Time Machine to back up your stuff. If you run Windows, there is a piece of software I use at home called Acronis True Image, and you can get it at Best Buy or through the Acronis.com web site.

3. JASON: Don't fall for the hype. Resist the buzzword. Which buzzword? All of them. Don't fall in love on the first date, people.

4. BRAD: Educate yourself. It is very easy to add a few items to your daily task list that will help you stay on top of technology. Visit Wired.com, pcmag.com and gizmodo.com, three great sites that feature all things geeky.

5. JASON: Befriend a geek. We're people, too, you know. And some of us are lonely. Besides, geeks love to talk about the latest tech, what they've done with the latest tech and what the latest tech can do. A 15 minute conversation bouncing ideas off the geek down the hall could save you some time with the consultants down the street.

6. BRAD: Contribute. Plug into the interactive Web by trying an online social networking tool. Go to Flickr.com and create a free account. Go to WordPress.com and start a free blog. You'll never know if a tool might have some practical purpose for your organization if you don't start using some of them.

7. JASON: Lock it down! There have been a number of high-profile data theft cases in the news of late. Your constituents won't be very happy if their credit card numbers happen to walk away from you. What are you exposing to the internet? Who has access to it? What kind of security are you running internally? Who can see what? How often are you changing passwords and network keys? It could happen to you!

8. BRAD: Aggregate. Aggregate. Aggregate. Whether you use Google Reader, the Firefox Web browser's built in module, Outlook 2007, or any other tool, start increasing your personal efficiency by using an aggregator. Aggregators, also known as feed readers, are tools that let you enter RSS feeds and have the content come to you. They pull syndicated content to a single location for easy viewing.

Cool Sites of the Episode

Jason: www.lasagnacat.com - Actors (all human) play out Garfield comic strips from the past three decades, then the result is remixed to a tangentially-related song. Art project? Time-waster gone awry? Both? My current favorite: 3/24/1979.

Brad: Speaking of getting an aggregator, check out tiinker.com. Tiinker learns what you like to read about and adapts. It's like Tivo for your RSS feeds.

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

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