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  • Leigh Himel  "Art" doesn't mean one shouldn't make money. There are many people who consider themselves artists and and attempt to make a living from it. If they can, frankly, more power to 'em. But I'm not sure that's the make it or break it point. I think the point is applying marketing and business practices the same way we do to large brands and corporations when it comes to "transparency" and other blah de blah we love to tout in the new media space to an individual and her experimental art project is unreasonable. I thought Brendan Laraby, (want to be paid TV writer one day according to his blog profile), had a very thoughtful post on it - http://aboyandhistvshow.blogspot.com/2008/05/dividing-line.html
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Online fiction, Facebook and transparency
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  •   tamera kremer  Agree and disagree. Art directors who are pushing the envelope for paid client work could make the argument that they are creating commercial art. Same with this art, if the ultimate goal was to build a client base. Nothing wrong with that, but there are rules of engagement online, and within the norms of a community, and one of the key ones is (and has been for a long-time): opt-in & be transparent. that didn't happen here, therefore the experiment failed with some users and with some people who would prefer not to be deceived in their social interactions, especially when it's then clear that this was done to gain a client base for their content creation business.
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  • Leigh  I think adoption cycles have become so short and the lifespan of cool even shorter, that the expectation is that the network will accept or reject in 18m or less. I guess since they are 2 years old the assumption is they should have crossed the chasm by now?
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Twitter: more mainstream than it looks
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  • Leigh  I'm from Canada....generally speaking we like to be unknown. And I too got my degree in geography (well environmental resource management but it was in the geography dept :)
  • • 3 months ago
    •   Welcome, Unknowns
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