The Latest Fad? Event-Listings

It’s interesting to witness three cultural sites launching events listings as bolt ons to their regular services. Within a week PSFK has launched The Purple List, then TrendWatching have launched a TrendEvents service and now We Make Money Not Art has a del.icio.us list of calls and events.

“Great minds think alike,” TW’s Reinier Evers told us in an email congratulating us on TPL’s launch. Is this just a blog fad or does it reflect something deeper? Maybe it’s a reflection of a broken system of information distribution. For us here we were frustrated by how difficult it was to get information on a wide variety of events that we were interested in. For a long time Flavorpill has been championing the ‘entertainment’ side of the march - but, like WMMNA and TW we also wanted to have a mix of events that stimulated us professionally and intellectually as well.