Everyone’s a critic: Texting for the arts at Philly Fringe

Arts Blog
Libby Rosof

(August 28, 2009) - Everyone can be a critic, and everyone can get the latest reaction to shows in the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival thanks to cell phones and texting. The new hot-on-the-hoof reviews by Jane Q. Public will be displayed online at Phillyfunguide.com and at livearts-fringe.org.
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The way the Turn Your Cell Phone On! program works is people in the theater get a code for dialing in, and then they can rank the show from awesome to yuk (well, really from Amazing to Not So Great). The program is supposed to work with most cell phones. Then in the lobby, a computer immediately tabulates the results and displays them on an LED screen.

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