Tim McFarlane
March 2012
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After many years of resisting having a dedicated art website due to the amount of poorly-designed, and hard-to-navigate websites I’ve seen, I have finally taken the plunge, thanks to the great team over at heavybubble.com. One of the best features that I like about hb’s sites (besides the clean templates they offer) is that they are very easy to edit yourself. Having to rely on someone else in order to make changes to my website was one of the biggest mental hurtles I had and heavy bubble is the antidote for me. They offer free “bubbles” for a month, so it might be worth it to check them out.
Stop Calling it Curation
First, let’s just get clear on the terminology here: “Curation” is an act performed by people with PhDs in art history; the business in which we’re all engaged when we’re tossing links around on the internet is simple “sharing.”…
If people want to be celebrated for being smart or for having exceptional taste that’s all fine and good, everyone can go right on congratulating one another in their little mutual admiration societies. But please spare the rest of us all this moralizing on why we should be giving people who share links anywhere near the same amount of credit we afford that singularly special act of original content creation. (via MattLanger)
