A few days ago Devon Smith announced she’s been working on quantifying how well LORT theaters use Twitter. This is neat. I like this idea, and in the spirit of public feedback about it, here’s, uh, some public feedback: The Metrics I Generally Dig @mentions — Measuring mentions captures something about both re-tweets and conversations. [...]
Category Archives: Theatre
Toward A New Funding Model for Theater
October 14, 2009 – 11:34 am
Ever since jotting down a few observations on theater’s crappy business model, I’ve found myself mildly obsessed with finding a solution to the problem of funding theater. Why? I’m not sure. Because I love it, I guess. Because although I’m not convinced the arts are strictly necessary, I am convinced they’re one way we make [...]
Public Money and the Arts
September 13, 2009 – 9:49 am
99 seats asks: We’re not all a bunch of dirty hippies out here in the arts world. I know that. There are conservatives, libertarians, LaRouchites in the arts world. So, maybe, your political philosophy is that the government shouldn’t be involved in the arts. [...] The thing I hate the most about the conservatives in [...]
If I Worked at Everyman
April 25, 2009 – 2:45 pm
The Everyman Theatre is one of the best theaters in Baltimore. They make great art. They consistently sell out their shows. Everyman gets big props. They also just climbed on board the Twitter wagon. Now, I’ve got nothing but love for Everyman. And there’s nothing really wrong about how they’re using Twitter. They’ve set it [...]
In which Chris says hello to the fine folks over at MetaFilter
March 31, 2009 – 3:08 pm
Yesterday I learned of a thing called MetaFilter. Someone in the MetaFilter community subsumed my recent blog posts into a MetaPost about theater economics. The ensuing conversation is great fun to read, although a little difficult to follow; coherency suffers in the age of aggregated essays. Clarity also suffers: “Is this sentence addressed to me? [...]