I’ve been looking back at the past year of posts on this site to see what I want to carry on and what I want to rethink. It’s pretty easy to bundle 2013’s posts into a few themes – arts analytics, big data, monthly links, thoughts on research

Gallery Analytics is: a site specific installation by Swedish artist Jonas Lund, made especially for the Momentum exhibition as part of the Rewire festival. By setting up a mesh wifi network and combining it with custom made software, Gallery Analytics is able to track every wifi enabled device moving around

The week before last, I set up a forum called CulturalDigital. It started when I sent a direct message via Twitter saying: That was sent to Ash Mann, someone who I felt wouldn’t be afraid to point out a massive waste of time and effort. He asked a couple

Today I went to Digital First? the Arts Marketing Association’s conference on marketing, culture, audiences and digital. Here are some notes from the keynote sessions, plus some thoughts… Sir Peter Bazalgette, Arts Council England Three key aspects to his talk: 1. Production The creative stuff – not the subject of

Ash Mann has written a post called ‘Digital’ in the arts where he gets a few things off his chest with regard to arts organisations’ digital activity in general and their websites in particular. I thought this was well observed: Everyone sort of grudgingly accepts that ‘digital’ is something you

This weekend I’m giving a talk called ‘Digital trends the arts can’t afford to ignore‘. I’ve been given half an hour and the audience will be people who work in marketing and PR at large theatres across Europe. I’ve been asked to give my perspective on

Arts Council England’s mission is ‘Great art and culture for everyone’ and they have a 10-year strategic framework, running from 2010-2020, with a set of five goals to help meet their mission. They’ve just released the second edition of their strategic framework [PDF or read it on Issuu]

Lucha Libro is a slice of genius from Peru. It’s writing, Mexican wretling-style. Competitors are given three keywords and five minutes to write a story. It’s a knockout format and losers have to remover their masks. Arts/digital links The BBC have announced all sorts of interesting things,

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