Go2Web2.0 featured @ TechCrunch.

Coup to be featured at TC, but be ready.  This site came crashing down under the flood of traffic from TC. 

One blogger asks about the relationship between blogger and featured companies at MichaelArrington Sucks.  (Obviously a blog with an opinion, whether impartial or not, you can decide.)  You will see that TC is the only featured advertiser on the site.  MAS also alleges they (blogger and site owner) are in a relationship and trade “favors.”  The owner of the site is also a powerful “digger.”  Should that all be disclosed as well?

TC states that they will expressly state and disclose when there is an apparent conflict of interest; and I take them at their word on this point. 

But, of course, the world of blogging has gone corporate.  Posts are valuable real estate.  And, perhaps inevitably, there are now businesses that even enable bloggers to sell posts to review advertiser products (with varying degrees of disclsoure).

I can’t help but be a little cynical about big bloggers.  This is after all big business.

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Portraiture Pool @ Flickr.  These by d_rum2001.

Such great talent being shared every day in the photo pools at Flickr.  Feel free to suggest some for us to spotlight.

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The following excerpted from Justin Ruckmin.  This well sums up the arrogance of the gallery/museum culture and the democratization of art and culture.  Thanks again to the Internet.

At the beginning of 2006 Barry Neuman, art dealer, remarked to Artnet Magazine:

I think it’s a safe bet that there will be 50 to 60 new and bona fide (i.e., seriously authored by qualified people) art world blogs by the end of the year.

… to which Kriston Capps, writer for the Smithsonian’s Eye Level blog responded:

“Seriously authored by qualified people,” [is] a sentiment totally contrary to the esprit de corps of the blogosphere. What’s in fact great about most blogs is that they are nonseriously authored by nonqualified people. By the best count I’ve read, there are around 400–500 art blogs in the nation. Assuming even half of those are updated regularly, that amounts to a virtual library of information about artists, trends, and institutions. Even if not all these blogs are of the highest quality, the cream rises—and distributes the best information from the lesser-known blogs. To a certain extent, blogs survive by this network. (…)

(…) Artists, professionals, and enthusiasts writing about art are in fact part of the “actual, hands-on, real-world art scene.”

It is true that art blogs are becoming more diverse, with institutions joining the ranks of the citizen journalist. (…) But even to the extent that museoblogs bring some unique expertise to bear on the subject, the blog model is still fundamentally one that the layman can do as well or better. In other words, I wouldn’t wait for the pros to come ’round on blogs before I started paying attention to them.

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Limited number of digital photos of Banksy pieces available royalty free and in three sizes.

At the Banksy shop: 

Everything in the shop is free. All the images can be downloaded to print or use as a desktop.

Serving suggestion:
Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.

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From Wikipedia:

The term “meme” (IPA: [miːm]) labels a theoretical concept introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, and refers to any unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice, idea or concept, which one mind transmits (verbally or by demonstration) to another mind. Examples might include thoughts, concepts, ideas, theories, opinions, beliefs, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods. Different definitions of meme generally have in common, very roughly, that a meme consists of some sort of a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having an analogous resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetic information).

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