Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 6, 2011

Born in the early 17 th century, Haiku as a literary form was a product of the game Renga in which poets wrote alternating stanzas to create poems with sound unit counts known as "on." No matter the topic, Haiku spans the linguistic divide as a universal form of artistic expression.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The system, which is designed to navigate the complexities of copyright claims while also fairly compensating artists, offers an alternative to existing free music platforms, including YouTube’s own Audio Library and Creative Commons’ legal music for videos, for example. Image Credits: Uppbeat.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2022

First, they represent the intrinsic value of copyright ownership, and second, the emotional value of owning something scarce that’s associated with your favorite artist. Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

If Yuga Labs files a formal legal complaint, PAYC and PHAYC could potentially defend their apes as transformative fair use, following the footsteps of people like appropriation artist Richard Prince. But there’s very little legal precedent surrounding NFTs at all, let alone their copyright implications specifically.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Echelon’s bikes are among the first that pop up when you google “cheaper Peloton alternative,” and it’s also the company behind Walmart’s $497 connected bike. While Peloton is the most familiar name in connected fitness, Echelon’s bikes are probably the ones you’ve seen before without noticing. Is the bike itself a tad ridiculous?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

But first, it’s a good idea to check out your alternatives. DeviantArt calls itself “the world’s largest art community” with a social network for visual artists of all kinds. It offers visitors a wide range of artist galleries to view, divided into categories such as traditional, animation, and illustrations. Google Photos.

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The Verge

APRIL 24, 2021

Model and actress Emily Ratajkowski is selling a link representing a composite image that features a photograph of herself in front of a print by another artist that contains a photo (of herself) taken by (presumably) yet another artist. In other words, she is selling an NFT.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Lynk & Co brand was first announced in 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden as a “born digital” alternative to Volvo, the company that spawned Lynk & Co with help from their Chinese parent Geely. By being a member of Link & Co you also get access to fun things, to fun brands, to fun artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2011

The Future of Nonprofits combines twenty-first century innovations (social media, alternative currencies, digital channels) with enduring success strategies of the best nonprofits (hiring killer talent, structuring smart). In the pre-launch at SXSW, they shared a wonderful graphic novel that outlines the themes of the book.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. PieLab (Greensboro, AL). The doors of SLAM are never closed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: May 14: Blogging for Writers workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Vibez is one of many African and Caribbean artists who have found breakout success on the platform. The company also integrated alternative revenue streams for musicians: Fans can become direct financial supporters of their favorite artists on the platform, and in exchange get badges and bragging rights. The current No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

It does so by offering an alternative to expensive music licensing platforms as well as free music options like YouTube’s Audio Library or Creative Commons ‘ music. Uppbeat artists, meanwhile, keep total ownership of their music and are paid on a rev share basis.

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Mashable Tech

JUNE 9, 2022

Digital tools allow artists to simulate a variety of mediums using the same tools: a stylus, a touch-sensitive pad, and some creative software like Adobe Fresco. The quality of the artist, not the technology, dictates the final product." No matter which software you choose, you probably need some kind of a tablet and a digital pen.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Channels producing alt-right, alt-lite, and misogynist content were more likely to use alternative monetization methods than their counterparts. And alternative monetization isn’t inherently a bad thing, either: small creators who aren’t eligible for the program often ask fans to support them in other ways off-platform.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2021

Have you even made it as an artist if you’re not singing in a made up language for a Sims game? The artist is also composing music for Sable , an upcoming Xbox and PC open world game. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images. We just learned at the Summer Games Fest that Sable is coming out later this year on September 23rd, 2021.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2021

There are 24 illustrations by 24 different artists, and the set itself has a theme inspired by the symbols found on Zener cards — famously used throughout the 20th century to test for telepaths (mind-reading being a recurrent theme in Dick’s fiction).

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s an interesting alternative to a flashlight — you can see the whole scene in front of you instead of shining a light in a certain direction. It’s better to think of the Duovox Mate Pro as a portable security camera than an artistic tool. There is also an actual flashlight mounted on the front of the camera, too.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Josephine Dorado, ( @funksoup ) is a social entrepreneur, educator, artist, producer, and skydiver. She is currently working on a curated mobile guide for alternative lifestyles. You can keep track of his work on his personal website.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Thomas Park, president and head of alternative investments at Mirae Asset Global Investments, said his firm has been investing in environmental, social and governance-related companies for awhile, targeting companies that “make a huge impact globally and in a way that is easy for us to understand.”.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event. When hosting an in-person auction isn’t an option, a virtual silent auction is a perfect alternative to raise money for your organization. Virtual silent auction. Virtual craft fair. Student art show.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2022

Archieverse: Eclipse sounds like a version of the puzzle- and role-playing-focused alternate reality games (or ARGs ) that media companies have launched — often for free — in years past. But it declined to offer more information about the terms artists and writers will be given, saying details will be revealed to fans at a later date.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Alternatively, click on the Tableau logo in the top left. . We’ll walk through some useful features in Tableau and how to make a sheet for your most played artists, then hand over the reins for you to draw your own insights. Drag the “Artist Name” dimension to the Rows shelf. Most Played Artists (Bar chart). Artist Name.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Or if I’m watching a movie and think, “Okay, I’ve heard that song before,” I can turn to my phone and immediately find out the song’s name and artist. It doesn’t work offline, and you have to tap on the icon to start the identification process, but it’s a great alternative for those without current Pixels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

“Artists recognize that when a platform changes ownership, even the smallest tweaks can impact their livelihoods,” writes Amanda Silberling in a three-handed opinion column with Devin Coldewey and Alex Wilhelm. Amanda Silberling: Big money + Big Tech = skeptical artists. 3 views on the Epic-Bandcamp deal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

If the crowdfunding platform cannot find the nonprofit to which the donor has designated, the platform must contact the donor to request alternatives. Confirm to donors that their donation was received by the designated nonprofit.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Briggs is part of a growing movement of artists and designers who produce alternatives to the stock keycaps sold with most mechanical keyboards. Swapping out keycaps for aftermarket alternatives has become so commonplace that it’s not uncommon to see premium keyboards sold without keycaps in the box.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Alternatively, click on the Tableau logo in the top left. . We’ll walk through some useful features in Tableau and how to make a sheet for your most played artists, then hand over the reins for you to draw your own insights. Drag the “Artist Name” dimension to the Rows shelf. Most Played Artists (Bar chart). Artist Name.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Many digital artists make use of drawing tablets and displays in order to draw directly into their computer software of choice. If you’re just starting out, I think the cheaper Wacom tablets are a great start for any beginner digital artist. It really depends on the style of work. For beginners.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2010s are when I started getting into alternative investments as well. If you talk to my business manager, you’re supposed to work at a triangular business model, where your private equity and all the alternative investments are at the top end of the triangle, and all your safe investments are at the bottom. As a label?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Artists can use the free program to make 3D models in addition to 2D creations, with all kinds of textures, filters, and lighting options. I’m not even a Spotify Premium subscriber (I’m an Apple Music loyalist), but I often pull up the Spotify Windows app just to see recommendations for new artists and songs. They’re usually good.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

When beautiful art is available at the press of a button, what does that mean to artists? Now, after a $30 million raise, it eyes strawberries and alternative meat , Brian reports. It brings the company’s total raised to $90 million. Haje wonders in an article where he includes 30+ AI-rendered pictures of Batman.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For much of the past decade, Stålenhag has created gorgeous landscapes that depict rural countrysides and small towns set in an alternate universe — something that looks a lot like the ’80s but is filled with junky robots and hulking mechanical buildings and beasts. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. This is perfect.”.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Along with Bunny’s demands for scritches, Devine, an artist and self-identified nonexpert in dog science, fields hundreds of questions from humans every day. There are parody videos on TikTok and existential jokes on Twitter about Bunny’s sentience. Devine has been enjoying the parodies.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Taking inspiration from Jim Henson and Shigeru Miyamoto With the rise of NFT artwork over the past year, many artists have floated my way through the Twitter content rivers. Henson is one of the most overlooked artists in my eyes, the amount of people he has reached through his characters and storytelling is nothing short of impressive.

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