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Hats off to Meg Pickard for a nice visualisation of how viral content spreads: There’s a similar French one by Henry Michel but Meg’s wins for having the shark/cat on the Roomba. Arts/digital links Devon Smith asks how a whole slew of tech trends could apply

Culture24 released their Let’s Get Real 2 report at a conference in Brighton the other week. I wasn’t able to go this time but I’ve been having a read through the report. It’s another good piece of work and has moved on in a few ways

A lovely promo video for The Other Way Works‘ Bandstand app (available on iOS and Android) The Bandstand Audio Theatre Experiences were created by artists from The Other Way Works and influenced by local history research and conversations with park users and local groups. The final pieces are like short

Just a quick(isn) one, for fun. Yesterday, Culture24‘s Jane Finnis wrote a piece for the Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network called Why your cultural website is rubbish. I was going to leave a comment, but it got a bit long, so I’m posting this here instead. For

Firstly, if you’ve been following this arts/big data series then apologies for the brief hiatus – life got in the way. The good news is that you’ll have had a chance to catch up on all the reading material in the link dump of articles, blog posts and

This week I’m blogging about big data in the arts and culture sector (see the intro to the series here). In this post, I’m going to take a look at what’s been written so far. I’m collecting links on Delicious and will probably add more to

This week I’m going to write a post a day about how Big Data is relevant to the arts and culture sector. Data seems to be flavour of the month in the cultural sector, with the recent announcement of funding for research into the arts and Big Data, the

That’s a map of London, made by plotting the location of tweets from different mobile devices. Via Twitter + GNIP. Arts/digital links Phil Thompson took screenshots of paintings that had been blurred out on the Google Art Project website due to copyright reasons. He sent those to oil painting

NYLPT: Randomly generated sequences of Jason Evans’s street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with a randomly evolving soundtrack generated through a combination of 17 synthesizers. Arts, digital, etc Yet again, more interesting stuff from job descriptions.

For this post in the Arts Analytics series, I wanted to see how much effort arts organisations are putting into the performance of their websites. For this I just looked at homepages and asked the following: 1. How big are those pages? 2. How quickly do they load? 3. How