Declining search interest in off-West End theatres

I’m just throwing this here as it came up when I was looking at something else. Here are the Google Trends results for a handful of off-West End theatres. I can tell what a couple of the recent spikes are. The recent BAC (red) one will have been the

My journey to Instapaper Zero

I know the title sounds faintly (ok, a bit more than that) ridiculous, but… it is what it is. If you’ve found this post because you too reached the end of your tether then I hope you’ll understand. A couple of months ago I had about 1,400

Things I've written elsewhere

Over the past few months I’ve been writing bits and pieces on all sorts of other websites. Seeing as I’ve not written so much here, I thought I should bring everything together. I’ve been writing things about: * How digital distribution affects cultural orgs’ business models * The new

A couple of thoughts on digital project lifespans

I’ve seen a couple of posts about project lifespans recently. The subject’s come up through work a few times too. Avoiding abandonment First up, Keir Winesmith blogged about SFMOMA’s three 18 three approach: Put simply, when you are planning and budgeting a new digital initiative, don’t

Thoughts from MuseumNext

Last week I was at MusuemNext in Geneva. It’s an international conference on the future of museums and has been going for a little while now. I’ve had my eye on it for a while – what’s not to love about visiting European cities to hear interesting people

Shareable exhibitions

A quick observation. A while back I remember talking to someone about how, one day, promoters might start taking into account things like Twitter followers into account when booking bands and DJs. it wasn’t a huge leap to make – MySpace must’ve been getting close to it’s peak

Improving the digital metrics Arts Council England collects from funded organisations

I’ve complained before about the digital metrics that Arts Council England collects as part of the annual review. However, I’m aware that that’s not particularly constructive. What I should do is explain why I think the metrics are useless and provide some sort of solution. In fact,

Arts Analytics: Tracking Technology

For this Arts Analytics post I wanted to see what sorts of tracking technology arts organisations are putting on their sites. Don’t worry it’s not going to get too technical, but this post should provide a decent jumping off point if you’re new to this sort of

Arts Analytics: which arts organisations are on Instagram?

Instagram has taken off like crazy, built by a small team and acquired by Facebook for big bucks. It’s also a platform that ticks the boxes of a few very prominent trends – mobile-first, visual-led and driven by the creativity of its users. For this post in the Arts Analytics

Thoughts on posters - accents and kerning

I was staring at posters on the Tube earlier today and a couple of them made me think. I didn’t take pics but you’ll get the gist from these screenshots. Here’s the first one. I was idly wondering whether that accent in ‘Coppélia’ has any affect on