With the success of the movie, The Black Swan, audiences are getting a glimpse at some of the hard truths about dance, and dancers–albeit disappointed about the depiction of the darker side of their art–are rejoicing that their profession has finally received some prime time play. This brings to mind the challenges that many art…
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Dan Dyer, one of my favorite local musicians, played the other night here in Austin, and I knew I’d miss the show. Stacy and I were working late trying to add Canadian payment processing to ThunderTix, and at 10:00 PM, we still hadn’t finished. I guess Stacy had had enough, because she suggested we call…
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In February, Twitter eclipsed the 50 million tweets-per-day-mark or a mind-numbing 600 tweets per second. Facebook’s even higher at 700 posts per second. For those on the receiving end, that’s a lot of network noise to filter through to find value. On the flip side, the job of reaching folks is even harder when you…
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