<nettime-ann> Cultural blogging in Europe

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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The Why and Who: Cultural blogging in Europe
7th April 2009
Ever wondered why people write blogs and who is out there in the  
cultural blogging scene? With the opening up of media channels in the  
past five years and independent publishing becoming technically more  
possible, blogging has become one of the most steadfast mediums to  
distribute commentary. LabforCulture asked Annette Wolfsberger, a  
producer, project manager and researcher in the fields of media arts,  
contemporary & popular culture, to talk to the current cultural  
blogging personalities heading up cultural discourse online and we are  
publishing the results in the new Research in focus, "Cultural  
blogging in Europe".

From April through to June, LabforCulture will publish a series of in- 
depth interviews with personalities in the cultural blogging scene:  
looking at what motivates them to post, how it affects their  
creativity, how they market their blog and what kind of sustainability  
models they employ?

The first two interviews carried out by Annette Wolfsberger begin with  
Claire Welsby, of InterventTech.net, based in London, who is a media  
producer for The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Michelle Kasprzak, of  
Curating.info, based in Edinburgh, who is currently a Visual Arts  
Officer for the Scottish Arts Council. Both blogs have been running  
for several years and contribute to today's cultural scene. For  
Annette Wolfsberger's next exploration into the personalities' and  
drive of these online commentators: watch out for the forthcoming  
interview in the series with Alek Tarkowski, of Kultura 2.0, who is  
based in Warsaw and currently leads the Creative Commons Poland project.

Also coming up is an interactive map where you can add a link and help  
to create a map of the European cultural blogging scene. We will  
invite you shortly to add to the link or distribute it. Finally, all  
the Research in focus will also be available offline; in late spring  
LabforCulture will produce a publication of the "Cultural Bloggers in  
Europe".

Check the LabforCulture blog for the newly posted interviews.

Further Information:

	• Go online: www.labforculture.org
	• Press information contact: Nicola Mullenger: nicola@labforculture.org
	• LabforCulture is a partnership initiative of the European Cultural  
Foundation and is grateful for the support provided by its funders.
	• LabforCulture is a unique tool for artists, cultural professionals,  
organisations and networks across the 50 countries of Europe, and a  
platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the  
world. It provides a wide range of linked information from funding  
possibilities to cultural news and through their open community space  
the arts and culture sector can post blogs, search contacts through  
the online profiles or simply make an announcement about an arts  
event. The site is in six languages: English, French, German, Italian,  
Polish and Spanish.

http://www.labforculture.org/

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