Fun in the park.The beauty of freedom of speech is that anyone ca n share with everyone else how little they understand of the world around them. This is especially true for the ongoing avalanche of statements and announcements of all sorts by honchos who really don't seem to get that online and offline are two different worlds where different rules apply. See http://wwwnytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/media/24content.html or http://wwwguardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/16/financial-times-lionel-barber for two recent examples of how even big media is not immune to this. In both cases, Big Old Media is trying to fit square pegs Square Pegs was a CBS comedy television series that aired during the 1982-83 season. The series followed Patty Greene (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker), two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School. into round holes. And like less-gifted children in kindergarten do; if the block does not go in by itself, you take a big, mean hammer and wallop the block until it either fits in the hole or breaks--whichever comes first. Sometimes, however, solutions can be so much simpler, so much more elegant. And of course the most intriguing ones comes from where you would least expect them. In a recent post (1.), no more than a single paragraph in its blog section, the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times (NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ) said the National Symphony Orchestra National Symphony Orchestra is used for the name of many orchestras in different countries. It may refer to the:
NSO National Statistics Office (Philippines) NSO National Solar Observatory NSO New Student Orientation NSO National Statistical Office NSO Nevada Site Office NSO Nonqualified Stock Option ) would use Twitter A Web site and service that lets users send short text messages from their cellphones to a group of friends. Launched in 2006, Twitter (www.twitter.com) was designed for people to broadcast their current activities and thoughts. to provide live programme notes for an outdoor performance of Beethoven's Symphony No 6 at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts This article is about the park. For the microbiology experiment of Wolf Vishniac, see Wolf Vishniac. Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, known locally as simply Wolf Trap . The twitter messages would highlight "the various countryside sights and sounds--rattling carriage wheels, singing birds--that Beethoven was paying homage to in the symphony," NYT said. Conductor Emil de Cou Emil de Cou is an American conductor who became associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) in September 2003 and has been an active participant in a wide range of NSO performances and events since his debut at Wolf Trap was quoted as calling the Twiitter comments "an adult musical pop-up book written for first timers and concert veterans alike." The performance is to take place at the Feline Centre, which includes an outdoor amphitheatre with covered, in-house seating and uncovered, lawn seating. The idea of using Twitter, or any other service like it, in this way, to the generation that grew up online, is like "duh." But to the honchos that are still wondering why the big square thingy will not go into the round thingy, even if you hit it really, really hard with the biggest, meanest hammer-thingy-you can find, it is unlikely to make much sense. The idea of NSO and conductor De Cou shows an ablility to adapt, and, hopefully, survive in a world that will change even faster tomorrow than it did today. As for Big Old Media, let us hope someone hides the really big hammer before things break. The NSO comments ca n be followed live from anywhere in the world via http://twitter.com/nsoatwolftrap. 1. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/ a-different-tweet-in-beethovens-pastoral-symphony/ |
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