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  1. A competition for arts bloggers - $2,500 prize. Entry deadline tomorrow night at midnight artsjournal.com/diacritical/20… 12:23 PM Mar 20th via Twitter for Mac
  2. Tx to @babiak for eloquent gracious intro at artrubicon.ca/26845/speaker-… in Edmonton. Gr8 to meet you. Now to read "Toby" (PS: it's 75 in LA today) 10:11 AM Feb 8th via Twitter for Mac
  3. Thanks to @babiak for gracious and eloquent intro at artrubicon.ca/26845/speaker-… in Edmonton. Fun to talk ideas. 10:08 AM Feb 8th via Twitter for Mac
  4. Audience engagement isn't a two-way street. It's got to be more or it's cynical and self-serving. bit.ly/Aqgq8Q 11:43 AM Jan 25th via Twitter for Mac
  5. @DERagsdale: "You can’t lead if no one is paying attention to you." So true, so true. bit.ly/xWn8gb 9:39 AM Jan 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  6. Should artists lead more or follow more? A debate going on over at ArtsJournal bit.ly/yQMZ20 9:34 AM Jan 23rd via Twitter for Mac
  7. Smart take on US defense budget: bit.ly/yWlop0 Overspending on defense as we do is a security threat in itself. 7:53 AM Jan 19th via Twitter for Mac
  8. MPAA's weird response to SOPA internet blackout protests yesterday: bit.ly/wuAzCV an "abuse of power"? Really? 7:24 AM Jan 19th via Twitter for Mac
  9. The way we argue for funding for the arts is all wrong. bit.ly/xSCaQA. By the time we're talking money, the argument is over. 5:41 AM Jan 10th via Twitter for Mac
  10. Is "recording the new QWERTY"? bit.ly/sYPlCe. The race to make our gadgets voice-friendly. 6:50 AM Jan 3rd via Twitter for Mac
  11. Congress' SOPA bill is deadly to internet. But hackers already making workarounds bit.ly/uGmfRa. Tech always beats these things. 9:39 AM Dec 22nd, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  12. Is excellence meaningless if someone doesn't explain what excellence is? bit.ly/scsS0W 5:00 PM Dec 18th, 2011 via web
  13. Are you a channel or a library? Blog post on how you think about packaging content. wp.me/p162sH-32 12:36 AM Dec 15th, 2011 via web
  14. 2 percent of the arts receives 55 percent of the funding. Discuss. #grantmakersinthearts bit.ly/ujGC68 6:36 AM Dec 8th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  15. Job? What job? Seth Godin believes traditional ideas of a job are gone. "Jobs are opportunities" Fail a lot first. on.mash.to/sPzSNB 2:04 PM Dec 7th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  16. ~: Do you want to be my cable company or my TV provider? artsjournal.com/diacritical/20… 12:49 PM Dec 6th, 2011 via diacritical
  17. ~: Sharing, The New Default artsjournal.com/diacritical/20… 4:05 PM Dec 5th, 2011 via diacritical
  18. ~: The New Literate? artsjournal.com/diacritical/20… 10:44 PM Dec 4th, 2011 via diacritical
  19. Study: For those who worry our news habits are narrowing - People are finding their news more serendipitously online. bit.ly/rJySni 10:47 AM Dec 1st, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  20. very cool animated info graphic tracing the paths and history of Western pop music bit.ly/uoqcvW 11:01 PM Nov 19th, 2011 via Twitter for Mac
  • Name Douglas McLennan
  • Location Seattle
  • Web http://www.artsjo...
  • Bio I'm the editor of ArtsJournal.com, author of the AJ blog diacritical, and director of the National Arts Journalism Program
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