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Others on Liverpool phil in Second Life
I decided to give some more thought to the Liverpool Philharmonic’s Second Life adventure. One of the questions at the post concert Q&A was if the orchestra had made any money with this concert. The short answer was a no. I can only imagine it actually cost the orchestra quite a bit to produce the…
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Liverpool phil live in Second Life
Today, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performed live in Second Life. There were only 100 passes available, but I was one of the lucky ticket holders. Since it was work-related, my employer was gracious enough to have me install Second Life on my work computer. (The concert was at 7:30 p.m. in Liverpool, which means…
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Museum 2.0: Does Dresden read this blog?
Dutch Perspective on December 5, 2006: “Now I’m imagining a grand museum—a collaboration between the world’s greatest museums perhaps?—where Second Life residents can roam through virtual galleries, where paintings are replaced by high-resolution images […] This museum has lecture rooms, where world-famous curators or art historians can lecture before an audience of Second Life residents.…
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Live blogging about cultural participation
The folks at Arts Journal are currently live-blogging from the ASOL conference in Nashville. In anticipation of the book Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America’s Cultural Life they started a discussion last week on a specially created blog. This afternoon they have taken the discussion partly out of the blogosphere with a presentation…
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Battle for votes “social media style”
Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election today. With this announcement, a new Web site was launched on www.barackobama.com. I first noticed the campaign logo in the top right corner. How very Web 2.0, I thought. Of course, Obama’s new site has a, by now obligatory, blog, but what I thought was…
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