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The online publication Digicult is an impressive example of collective labor. For those not in the area, you can connect yourself to networks of media art internationally via this very thriving Italian hub - Lauren Cornell (Rhizome)

Marco and his crew are indestructible. I shouldn’t jinx them by saying that, but really, my hat is off - Bruce Sterling (Beyond the Beyond)

As blogger Mercedes Bunz writes: “Marshall McLuhan wrote that new media act like old media. However, the internet is not a kiosk. Forget about selling news online, it doesn’t work. We are quickly someplace else: the internet facilitates comparison and second opinions”. So, what is following is a short collection of publications, interviews and online contents in which Digicult is involved, or that simply speak about the project. Books, credits, pictures, texts: an excerpt of references that keep a better idea of what Digicult is today, to facilitate comparisons and second opinions…

Cultural blogging in Europe
Editors: Nicola Mullenger and Annette Wolfsberger
Publisher: LabforCulture

Cultural blogging is not (yet) a well-known Blogosphere category, and LabforCulture wanted to know more about it. Who are these bloggers? What do they blog about? What kind of public and communities are they engaged with? These are only a few of the questions asked in Cultural Bloggers Interviewed. Bloggers answered questions about their motivation, their business model and consequently their activities.

http://www.labforculture.org/en/resources-for-research/contents

Web Design Index by Content .03
Editors: Günter Beer
Publisher: The Pepin Press

Digicult was included in the 2008 edition of the prestigious “Web Design Index by Content”, published every year by the Dutch publisher Pepin Press. Would you like an overview of the state of the art in web design in a specific field? Web Design Index by Content provides exactly that: every year, 500 new designs are selected and grouped in more than 20 categories: architecture, art, fashion, food, IT, music, photography…

http://pepinpress.com/catalogue/view/124