Have an album you’re ready to record and release? A film you want to produce and screen at festivals? How are you going to pay for it? Talking Points Memo (TPM) reported this week that Kickstarter, the popular crowdsourcing platform, will likely distribute more funds to creators this year than the National Endowment for the...

A new blog entry from social-media maven/gadfly Chris Brogan considers “the difference between ship and shit.”  Chris draws this genteel distinction between work that is ready to ship, to share with the world — and work that is not. No sweat, you think.  You ignore the stuff in the latter category. Yet these aromatic works —...