On 02/01/2009, at 12:23 AM, Turbulence wrote:
Nice.
Thanx, glad you like the site. I'd like to contribute to the "
Interviewing the crisisl" discussion.
The Aviary was founded in 1999 as Print Australia and has developed
over time in response to the changing nature of the internet. It is
free to the public and contains no advertising. There is, and never
has been, any funding from government or other sources. This enables
complete freedom of content and removes the necessity to waste time
reporting back to funding providers. Occasionally it has utilised
volunteer labout but for the most part it is the work of a single
disabled individual with a laptop and an internet connection and a
lot of time in bed. The many projects curated through the site have
all been managed on a "user pays" principle.
It serves as an exemplar of what can be achieved without funding. It
is "Art for Art's sake".
In this current period of funding cutbacks perhaps it is time to
examine alternate strategies to govenment handouts. The Aviary uses
only those internet facilities that are free, it has never paid for
advertising or browser rankings, or subscriptions and yet it still
managed to achieve a number one ranking on Google.
I have received no renumeration other than the occasional thanks from
a grateful artist.
My offer still stands, I too would like five bucks from each of my
275,000 readers on Bellebyrd blog. But I'm not holding my breath.
Blakkbyrd
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: blakkbyrd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:28 AM
To: [email protected]; NetBehaviour for networked distributed
creativity
Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Uncertainty about our Survival
Can everyone send me five bucks too?
Blakkbyrd
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/
http://printaustralia.blogspot.com/
On 01/01/2009, at 5:58 AM, Turbulence wrote:
To those of you who have already contributed to our fundraising
campaign,
thank you. We are deeply grateful.
As we look at 2009, there is real uncertainty about our
organization's
survival. Faced with rapidly declining funds, we must either
require a
membership fee -- thereby blocking public access to our sites; or
we must
take them all offline: Turbulence.org, Networked_Performance,
Networked_Music_Review, and New American Radio.
We do not wish to do either.
At this point our only hope is that those of you who have not yet
contributed to our Campaign for Sustainability will decide to do so.
Networked_Performance alone is accessed by 32,000 unique visitors
per month;
many of you return three or more times. If each of you were to give
$5.00,
we could continue to make our sites freely available.
Please act now. Pay via PayPal at http://turbulence.org or mail a
check to:
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale
MA 02131
Thanks.
Helen and Jo
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 . Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
Networked_Music_Review: http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review
Upgrade! Boston: http://turbulence.org/upgrade
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
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