Friday 29 February 2008

Do you believe in 'free love'?

Short thought for a Friday. The latest briefing from the trend-spotters at Trend Watching is all about the rise of free stuff, why people want it, its potential place in new business models and so on. Given that one of the most attention-grabbing recommendations of The McMaster Review was for a 'Free Art Week', it's something for us all to think about. And if you follow all their links you'll also find some free stuff for yourself....

My own favourite 'free' thing at the moment is the radio function on last.fm. (One of my earlier blogs revealed a surprisingly high interest in my superficial experiences, to which I'll return, but that can do for now.)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Surely an Arts Council "executive director" is a fulltime servant of his employer, and would be unable to make public statements via a private website without permission of his London chief executive? Does this represent the first sanctioned coming-out of these arts strategists?

Pete Hindle said...

Turn off anonymous comments! If you are brave enough to come out and say things in public, your audience should be as well.

However, I didn't come here to talk about anon. I came here to say http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/

Anonymous said...

The 'S-word'is the root of so much trouble in arts management today: Mr Robinson may be the exception and is to be lauded for his openness. Sadly,those of us who depend on the core funding of the Arts Council have to be more circumspect. Would that Mr Robinson led the national office! When he reinstates peer review panels, I will trust in the critical judgements of the Arts Council.

Mark Robinson said...

Can I just check the s word? Strategy? Secrecy? Surprise? Something worse?