Do/Do Not Do [Funny Because It’s True Edition]

January 3, 2011 by Molly Sheridan

Do more with what you read online every day.

I read a rather heavy volume of articles online every day, and I often find myself wondering if I’m actually thinking enough about/doing enough with all the information I’m consuming to make it worth the time investment. On the flip side, I also fret about what I’m missing as the data goes whizzing by. So in 2011, I’m going to try and share more of the daily content that stands out to me for reasons large and small, and I hope you’ll add in links to the great material you come across as well.

From Today’s Feed: Gentle reminders to carry forward into 2011 from experiences in the year+ previous (as presented in helpful illustrations, not mine).

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BONUS: Fascinating but not funny at all because it’s dangerous, not to mention illegal…

Read the New York Times coverage here and catch the NPR story here.

Mind the Gap

Great performances have nothing to do with how many Facebook friends you have, but in today's cultural marketplace it can certainly feel that way. In the performing arts, we spend a lot of time obsessing over the hurdles we feel we need to overcome in order to connect performances with audiences. Age gaps. Genre gaps. Economic, social, and technological gaps. But are we trying to close the gaps we see by transforming our presentations, our marketing, and even our art in ways we haven't

Molly Sheridan

Molly Sheridan is a writer, editor, and producer specializing in classical and experimental music, with a focus on multimedia content designed for the web. A winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for music journalism, she’s executive editor of NewMusicBox and CounterstreamRadio, both programs of New Music USA.

She hosted Carnegie Hall’s Sound Insights podcasts and online artist interviews and her writing has appeared in publications such as TimeOut, The Washington Post, and theÂ occasionalÂ concert program.Â She attended the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University, earning a bachelor’s in journalism with a specialization in violin performance and French in 1999.

She currently divides her time between New York City and Baltimore, where she lives with her husband, the saxophonist Brian Sacawa, and cooks for Wonderland Kitchen.