Worth Noting:
Show Me the Money
The site www.fundrace.org/citymap.php allows you to find out the political contributions (and inclinations) of a particular neighborhood or even building. Although political inclinations are only a small part of analyzing a profile of a community, they offer some fascinating insights. US-based readers, check out your neighbors.
Music Babes in Cyberspace
When a male colleague sent me www.beautyinmusic.com I looked and had a furtive frisson and assumed the web site to be a haunt for the prurient, especially as it was put together by an outfit called "tawdry pixel". When I showed it to a female colleague, her reaction was much more hard-boiled. "So this is where the A&R guys probably go to find the next batch of classical music babes to take to market". So to find out, we used a natty piece of software that Vicki Porter at the Getty showed us, http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html , a simple and free device for finding out where your organization is located in cyberspace. (The answer is both.)
Consultancy Reports for Dummies
Finally, following Princeton philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt's polemic On Bullshit, try bullshit bingo www.perkigoth.com/home/kermit/stuff/bullshitbingo/ as a good way of generating a consultancy report quickly. Frankfurt defines bullshit as prose that may be true or false but whose merit is based on its capacity to serve interests rather than its veracity. In the arts that's called advocacy.oh dear.| << previous article |
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