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"We're moving toward a fascinating cultural transition: the death of the telephone call. This shift is particularly stark among the young. This generation doesn't make phone calls, because everyone is in constant, lightweight contact in so many other ways: texting, chatting, and social-network messaging."...
"There's no question that the company would prefer to remain independent. The question is whether that is possible. A merger with the Kennedy Center would certainly solve one persistent problem, the company's lack of an administrative head."...
"Software engineers are working on a system that would replace the traditional effects of the so-called Foley artists, who have been plying their trade ever since the 'talkies' hit the screens, with the omnipresent computer."...
"The news that Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian author of The Bookseller of Kabul, has been successfully sued by one of her book's characters will be greeted as either a blow to artistic freedom of expression or a victory for the world's misrepresented and powerless poor."...
"The video website, owned by Google Inc., said in a blog post Thursday that the longer upload time was the single-most requested feature that its users have been asking for."...
"Thanks to a never-say-die effort between a currency historian and a scholar studying John James Audubon (1785-1851), the famous artist's first published bird illustration has been discovered."...
"The great thing about them was that the economics of them meant that it only worked with huge numbers at cheap prices, so most of them are still around. But there are some great rarities, and it is not unknown for particularly rare copies to fetch around £500."...
Should cultural institutions -- organic and homegrown as so many of them are -- strive to hire local for their creative leadership?...