> exactly. if yahoo is bought by whoever, what happens?
> which makes me wonder, is it good for _informal_ documentation?
> what's the difference? use, abuse?
> what should we be doing about making public on the web exhibition
> opening parties with lots of people in them? should we not? should
> we ensure the photos only include staff?
You can't control that any of that - you can't police what an
individual puts on their Flickr site (in the context you mention
above). Even if you did manage to get them to take it down, it's too
late. Once posted, forever cached most probably.
What you're really talking about here is the last gasps of an
extremely outdated idea of copyright and the increasing power of the
individual and communities/swarms. There are huge benefits to these
more open ways of sharing information, but drawbacks too. You can't
have the benefits without the drawbacks and we're all in a process of
renegotiating a relationship with these new forms. Mark Pesce was
interviewed by either a surprisingly naive or pretending to be naive
presenter about the recent debacle with Digg and the MPAA trying to
get it to remove the HD DVD decryption code:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/
sea_20070512.mp3 - (the interview is about in the middle of the show).
>
> At the Bliss Out Centre in Cambridge someone told me about a museum
> cataloguing their collection on flickr rather than buying an
> expensive content management system... making the records available
> only to registered users/staff rather than public. but now I
> struggle to remember who or what that was. i imagine people are
> using flickr or the like in this personal way all the time.
>
> on another point, so much of the documentation work is after-the-
> show-opens / post-production, which few of us have time for as we
> struggle to get on with the next show... but is there a way to do
> it all along, or throughout? what strategies work best here?
The best way is probably exactly the methods mentioned above. The
more people that individually document and tag documentation of
exhibitions the easier it is for it to be found, to be useful and for
you to get on with the next exhibition. But then you have to let go
of the idea of owning any of it.
> lastly, please don't get me started on the raison d'etre of having
> a myspace account for your institution -- what is that about?! ;-)
> http://www.myspace.com/artscouncilengland
It's about what half the MySpace accounts are about, promotion across
as many media channels as possible and being up with the latest
trend. The other half are having an account to try out for the sake
of having an account (like mine). Hence the brilliant http://
www.uselessaccount.com/
Best,
Andy
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