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Consider this one a bonus email. It was 99% ready to send back in October but, well… 2020, amirite? Anyway, I actually thought I'd already sent it, but I hadn't and there was some good stuff in it, so I'm sending it now instead.

First up, we've got this from The Pudding. Defining the ’90s Music Canon. They used a music quiz and some numbers-y stuff to help answer the question "Which song is more likely to be recognized by future generations?"

Research and surveys
Heritage in lockdown: digital provision of memory institutions in the UK and US of America during the COVID-19 pandemic "we collected and analysed data from 83 heritage institutions in the UK and in the USA regarding the number, type, format, intended audience and intended aims of digital engagement opportunities they offered".

Digital preservation community survey results published. "With responses gathered from 98 organisations in 31 countries, the results provide an interesting snapshot of the digital preservation landscape today". From the Open Preservation Foundation.

Tubers
What YouTuber ZHC Can Teach Us About Advertising. "ZHC’s success seems deceptively obvious on the surface. His format is MrBeast meets Andy Warhol. Pop art with a stunt".

It’s Not Easy Being a BookTuber.

Printers
The Sound of Tickets Printing. AudienceView invite you to "press play and enjoy the sweet melody of a Stimare printer spitting out tickets for the next hour".

So, if we really are doing printers, here's some ballet done to Printer Jam by Mistabishi, choreographed by Birmingham Royal Ballet's Kit Holder.

Miscellaneous
"12 hours all in". That's Egham Museums breaking down how long it took to create their choose your adventure Twitter thing.

The next act: how the pandemic is shaping online theatre's future. Someone answers this question in the comments "I'm curious as to how it can cost £300,000 and £500,000 to film a single performance of a play?"

Teacher Development Fund. Now open from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Up to £150k for "exploring how blended approaches, combining digital and face to face delivery, can enhance teacher CPDL in arts-based learning".

Connecting to art – Increment: APIs "How The Metropolitan Museum of Art used a public API to share 5,000 years of human creativity with audiences beyond its walls".

Unexpected Learnings From Coding Artwork Every Day For Five Years. "Saskia Freeke brings code into play to create geometric artworks on a daily basis".

Top-Ten - Machine Listening Curriculum. Some serious musical monkey business, using Spotify data to create an averaged out ‘UK song’, a ‘Brazilian song’, a ‘Global’ song, and so on.

So there we go. I'm glad I found this. It's a bit like when you find some money you'd forgotten about in a coat pocket.

I'll catch you again in the new year. Take care of yourselves and thanks for subscribing.

Chris Unitt

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