I am a hacker and systems architect specializing in data analytics and human computer interfaces.
I wrote about Anthology's calendar aggregation last January. Here's the email I wrote:
Hello John, I noticed the calendar on the Anthology site didn't have a iCal format available. I wrote a script to scrape the site and generated one on Google calendar. Here's the deets: http://lee.rockingtiger.com/posts/19 If you want some help in the future generating an iCal feed without my silly hack I'd be happy to help make it a feature of the site. Thanks for keeping it real! Best,The response from John Mhiripiri Director of Administration & Exhibitions
Lee Azzarello
Hi Lee, Thanks for your interest. We will try to have a look at what you've done. JohnOh snap! Thanks dude. I guess scheduling underground art films is so hard you have to blow off free help. But I joke. He probably didn't understand the point of creating a syndicated calendar format when he had a perfectly good print edition and a web page. So now I'm writing again. This time I received a flyer from The Kitchen. Another arts institution in NYC. Great calendar, on paper. Went to their site, even worse. Their online calendar is burried in a Flash file. Fail! This has to change. I want to see events on my phone calendar without doing hours of data entry. Note to The Kitchen, if your intern does data entry, I don't have to because your intern already did it! I have some ideas on how to solve this problem.