At least we’re not HeathCare.gov.
Unlike the dysfunctional website for Obamacare, we have actually managed to get ourselves ready, quietly and behind the scenes, so you are reading this on your new and improved Cultural Weekly.
For the past eight weeks, we have been working on re-launching this digital magazine’s website design. It’s been a group effort, led by some amazing folks in London supported by our team in the US.
We hope you like our design changes. In addition to being more visual, we’ve also made the site responsive, which means it will automatically format itself for whatever screen you’re using—a mobile device, a tablet or a computer.
Plus, the administrative back-end of the old website had been cobbled together with the Internet equivalent of duct tape and bubble gum. Now, even though you can’t see it, we shine under the hood.
Every magazine expresses a view of the world. Cultural Weekly envisions a world where everyone joins the conversation about the creative culture in which we live. By elevating the conversation in way, we will make our collective culture better.
We know there are still some things to fix; we’re still adding authors’ biographies and photos, repairing links and otherwise tamping down gremlins that appear. Please let us know about anything you find, and it will go on our trouble-shooting list.
Thanks for bearing with us. We’ll have our glitches ironed out in a few weeks. Without spending 100 million taxpayer dollars.
Photo by Kabir Bakie at Blue Ash Community Fireworks July 2005; reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
Adam Leipzig is the founder and CEO of MediaU, online career acceleration. MediaU opens the doors of access for content creation, filmmaking and television. Adam, Cultural Daily’s founder and publisher, has worked with more than 10,000 creatives in film, theatre, television, music, dance, poetry, literature, performance, photography, and design. He has been a producer, distributor or supervising executive on more than 30 films that have disrupted expectations, including A Plastic Ocean, March of the Penguins, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dead Poets Society, Titus and A Plastic Ocean. His movies have won or been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 11 BAFTA Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Emmys, 2 Directors Guild Awards, 4 Sundance Awards and 4 Independent Spirit Awards. Adam teaches at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Adam began his career in theatre; he was the first professional dramaturg in the United States outside of New York City, and he was one of the founders of the Los Angeles Theatre Center, where he produced more than 300 plays, music, dance, and other events. Adam is CEO of Entertainment Media Partners, a company that navigates creative entrepreneurs through the Hollywood system and beyond, and a keynote speaker. Adam is the former president of National Geographic Films and senior Walt Disney Studios executive. He has also served in senior capacities at CreativeFuture, a non-profit organization that advocates for the creative community. Adam is is the author of ‘Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers ’ and co-author of the all-in-one resource for college students and emerging filmmakers 'Filmmaking in Action: Your Guide to the Skills and Craft' (Macmillan). (Photo by Jordan Ancel)