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About the Bucketworks Members’ Site

This site is being developed for Bucketworks Members, to use to communicate to the world and among themselves.

Your own “mini-site”

One of the benefits of Bucketworks membership is your own space on this site. Your space here would be in the form of a “page-group” or “mini-site”, with the group of pages having its own Home Page, Side Bar, and optionally Site Header and Group Header.

There are just a few restrictions on how you can use your space here. First is that you can not (or hardly ever, anyhow) read-restrict your pages - anyone can see the material you add here. One corollary to this is that we’ll need to reserve the right to veto content that’s intolerably intolerant or filthy. How we’ll define that will probably have to be worked out over time, like a lot of what we’re doing with the site; with luck, it won’t ever be an issue.

You can password-protect your pages from being edited by other members, however. We will write-protect your page-group with the password you choose.

Communicate

You can also post your news, events, suggestions, requests and ideas here.

Notices

Rss feed, from ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News

• New British Culture Minister: Museums Will Share Funding Pain

"There will be cuts to the arts and museums. They will not be singled out as easy to cut, but neither will they be overly protected. They will take their share of the pain." The Art Newspaper 09/03/10

• Dispute Over Artist Building In Berlin Says Something About City's Culture

"The ongoing conflict is part of a process of gentrification in central Berlin, as the remnants of the city's alternative culture are forced to make way for apartment buildings and hotels." Der Spiegel 09/03/10

• Now, About That Record Edinburgh Fringe Attendance...

The Festival "claimed on Monday that almost two million tickets had been sold for this year's event, a 5% increase on the previous record breaking year. However, it has emerged that some venues offering free and unticketed shows were included in the figures. An extra 120,000 ticket sales were added to the final total this year." BBC 09/03/10

• How The Brain Interprets Images (It Needs Help)

The precise neural mechanism that provokes the brain to switch its view of a scene is unknown, but it is thought to play a major role in perception by acting as a sort of reality check. "We need a trigger to prompt possible different interpretations so that we don't get stuck with a potentially incorrect interpretation of the world." New Scientist 09/03/10

• Poets Publish To Fight UK Public Funding Cuts

More than 100 poets have contributed "to Emergency Verse: an anthology of poems to be published online in protest at the coalition government's public spending cuts...The e-anthology will be mass-emailed to No 10 Downing Street and every Whitehall department this month, as civil servants grapple with Treasury demands for savings of up to 40%." The Guardian (UK) 09/03/10

• Corot Theft Maybe Wasn't? (Charges Dropped)

"A New York woman who sued her sales agent over the disappearance of a $1.4 million Corot painting decided to drop her complaint after concluding a convicted art thief in a mug shot was the artwork's co-owner, her lawyer said." Bloomberg 09/02/10

• When The Black Panthers Defined Popular Culture

"Even though they dwindled into irrelevance before the end of the Seventies, the Panthers, their guns, their afros and their attitude still help to define popular culture, for better or worse." The Independent (UK) 09/03/10

• Why Does The Flagship of the PhilOrch's New Download Series Sound So Bad?

In the hall, this concert performance of Strauss's Alpine Symphony, conducted by Charles Dutoit, was by all accounts a triumph. Yet the sound files, in all but the most expensive format, are flat and dull, barely recognizable as the Fabulous Philadelphians. What happened in the translation? Philadelphia Inquirer 09/02/10

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