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NFTs are changing cultural value creation

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Then we talked culture. Could residual incomes from the reselling of NFTs constitute a material revenue base for future artists, and how broad can the value-experiment go?

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Dear economy, creators aren’t fragile plants

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. You may know her from her cheeky, on point shorts about tech culture (and tech Twitter). We also dipped our toes into the issue of indie creators needing to be CEOs as well as artists.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Difficulty could be time, cultural, or cost. While it isn’t a scientific cost/benefit study, it helps resolves differing opinions, prioritize ideas quickly, and leads easily to a plan of action. What is Human Centered Design?

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Arts Suffering

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you read, in succession, headlines about how the harsh economy is impacting the arts around the country, it is extremely depressing news. One wonders what is happening with the very small artist-driven organizations in SF, if the big guys are reeling. HARD TIMES TAKES CENTER STAGE.

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‘Pro’ has lost all meaning, and Apple knows it

The Verge

It showed them being used by musicians, 3D artists, and developers in its presentation , and the message was clear: these are products for creative professionals or people who aspire to be creative professionals. To me, it seems like the goal of using the term is more to send a cultural signal to current and potential customers.”

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Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

The Verge

Even as NFTs slipped out of the headlines in the mainstream press, then, the number of people creating, acquiring and trading them continued to grow. Hofmann is best known as the co-creator of Vine, which helped to establish the short-form video format on mobile devices and became an incredible engine of meme culture along the way.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zero-day exploits, breaking into Japan, algorithmic VC investing

TechCrunch

Launching a product in a foreign market where you’re unfamiliar with the language and culture is a necessary step for growing companies, “but the barriers to entry are high” in Japan, Birrmacher notes, which is why building community was foundational to their expansion.

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