Thanks for sharing your experience at C&T. I began writing a lengthy response to your comment – too lengthy, in fact – and decided to make it into it’s own post. Will @reply you when it’s done.

Reminds me of a time when my theatre company, C&T, was discussing a new drama and web 2.0 project with one of our major funders, the Arts Council. This was in the early days of social networking online and they were clearly terrified by the concept, in a digital immigrant way. Despite their public proclamations to fund innovation the officer concerned was completely perplexed, in the terms you describe. Her only response after a long pause was “what is the precedent for this innovation?” (!!!). They supported it in the end. http://twitter.com/paul_sutton