Curt Smith, co-founder of Tears for Fears, on the benefits of sharing music: "Artists have always created things with the goal of sharing them with people. The difficulty right now lies with how we monetize that."
"Detecting Sadness in 140 Characters: Sentiment Analysis and Mourning Michael Jackson on Twitter" by By Elsa Kim and Sam Gilbert with Michael J. Edwards and Erhardt Graeff, from the Web Ecology Project.
"A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention" by Michael Erard:
I imagine attention festivals: week-long multimedia, cross-industry carnivals of readings, installations, and performances, where you go from a tent with 30-second films, guitar solos, 10-minute video games, and haiku to the tent with only Andy Warhol movies, to a myriad of venues with other media forms and activities requiring other attention lengths. In the Nano Tent, you can hear ringtones and read tweets. A festival organized not by the forms of the commodities themselves but of the experience of interacting with them. Not organized by time elapsed, but by cognitive investment: a pop song, which goes by quickly, can resonate for days; a poem, which can go by more quickly, sticks through a season. A festival in which you can see images of your brain on knitting and on Twitter.
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