Ben Werdmuller

Tag: arts

  • Your website is not the destination

    I wrote a piece for the Australia Council of the Arts: The web wasn’t designed to be made of pristine brochure pages. If you’ve ever tried to manage a web project, you’ll know that each version of each web browser displays pages just a little bit differently, making perfectly-rendered designs impossible. What’s less obvious is […]

  • Patronism and monetizing the social web

    This post is adapted from something I wrote on Google+. There are more comments over there; also see Evan Promodou’s riff on the same idea. Google+’s combination of streams and circles works. So here’s something I’ve been mulling over for a while: I really like Patronism‘s central idea. Rather than buying an album, you subscribe […]

  • Open data in the arts

    I’m in New York this week for a whirlwind series of meetings with Team Latakoo, but I wanted to draw a little attention to the introduction to open data in the arts I wrote over on the festivalslab blog before I got here: Open data sounds like a much more techie concept than it really […]

  • Edinburgh Festivals Lab Geek in Residence

    On Wednesday, the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab announced that I’m their inaugural Geek in Residence: This is an exciting and experimental new role in which Ben will work with and across the festival set to spot and develop project opportunities and bring his expertise and experience to explore what it is to be a festival […]