A BLOG OF SORTS FROM CHRIS COOKE
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| My name is Chris Cooke. I’m an editor, journalist and media entrepreneur. I publish and write for CMU, ThisWeek Culture and ThreeWeeks Edinburgh. I run UnLimited Media, co-lead Pathways Into Music, advise the Council Of Music Makers, and wrote Dissecting The Digital Dollar and Music Copyright Explained. You’ll find my latest updates and articles below – click the links for: info about my projects | more updates | more content |
Loads of Edinburgh Fringe performers have been tackling our all important Edinburgh Festival Quick Quiz this year. We’ll be publishing more videos on the ThreeWeeks socials next week – but you can check all the Quick Quiz answers we’ve published so far right now on the ThreeWeeks website.
It’s a predictable thing to say but… I can’t believe my ten days at the Edinburgh Fringe are over already and yet it feels like I’ve been here for months! 20 shows reviewed; 8 podcast interviews recorded; steak dinners with Christabel, Geraint and Alex; and only a modest amount of self-indulgent “30 years of ThreeWeeks” nostalgia. Maybe. I mean the last two shows I reviewed were in the old Teviot Committee Room, so there had to be some nostalgia.
When discussing all the debates around the labelling of AI-generated content the other day, one person suggested that maybe it would be better to start labelling the human-created content instead, given how much AI content there will be, and the fact human creators are more likely to be keen to self label. Which is an interesting proposal. To that end, I can confirm this article was human-created. By this human. Here it is.
Quick Edinburgh Fringe update – favourite shows so far (I think) are Sammy J ‘Hero Complex’ and Jess Fuchs ‘Feral’. Though, I should add, I’m not only seeing Australian comedians. My reviews and those of the wider ThreeWeeks team are now starting to appear here.
