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		<title>What if an Arts Organization was a MOOC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[That&#8217;s &#8220;Massive Open Online Course&#8221; and they&#8217;re everywhere right now. Some of the most prestigious universities are creating courses online and attracting tens of thousands of students. Among them is Curtis, the music school...<br/>
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		<title>How Do You Promote Arts Blogs? (A Competition And A Rationale)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts blogging]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[How does somebody who wants to write about the arts get an audience? In the old days you found a small local publication to write for while you learned your craft, and graduated to bigger publications and larger readership. Readership, and often...<br/>
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		<title>The Party of Can't And Won't (So Let's Change The Conversation)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts funding]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Mitt Romney said last week he&#8217;ll kick funding for the arts and public broadcasting to the curb if he gets to be president. # &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird is going to have advertisements,&#8221; Romney said, while...<br/>
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		<title>The Excellence Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[If I built the best-ever VCR, would you rush out to buy it? Of course not. Even though my VCR might be the most excellent VCR, no one cares about VCRs anymore. # Being excellent at something no one cares about doesn&#8217;t get you very far. What...<br/>
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		<title>Are you a Channel or are you a Library?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[TV used to be an appointment medium. It&#8217;s Thursday night at 8 and you&#8217;re in front of the set watching or else you missed your favorite show. Then VCR&#8217;s, DVD&#8217;s and DVR&#8217;s progressively pecked away at the appointment...<br/>
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		<title>Do you want to be my cable company or my TV provider?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I pay my cable provider to supply me with TV. # Since I don&#8217;t want to watch on my cable provider&#8217;s schedule I pay for Tivo. Since my cable provider doesn&#8217;t have all the movies I want to watch, I buy DVDs. I also have a Netflix...<br/>
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		<title>Sharing, The New Default</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture business models]]></category>

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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Build something in the physical world and the minute it&#8217;s used it starts to decay &#8211; scuffs, dents, chips. Drive a car off the new car lot and it immediately loses ten percent of its value. Use something a lot and eventually it wears out....<br/>
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		<title>The New Literate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material. - Wikipedia # Literacy at its most basic is the ability to read and write. Someone is judged...<br/>
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		<title>The Classical Music Critic Goes Extinct</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Seems important to note the passing of music criticism as a legitimate job in Canada. John Terauds, for six years staff classical music critic of the Toronto Star, was reassigned this week to the paper’s business section. He was the last full-time...<br/>
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		<title>A New Look</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas McLennan</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a follower of ArtsJournal blogs, you&#8217;ll notice that this blog doesn&#8217;t look the same as any of the others. That&#8217;s because I&#8217;m in the midst of redesigning all of AJ, starting with the blogs, and using my own as...<br/>
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