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Miro Googled

Google asked to remove Miro logo By Elise Ackerman, Mercury News How surreal was Google’s home page logo Thursday? So much so that the company removed it midday — at the request of Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miró’s family. The Mountain View search giant wanted to honor the famous painter’s birthday (April 20, 1893), and [...]

The End User

Imagine for a moment that traffic laws were written like copyright laws. “It is forbidden to drive though a red light, unless the red light was manufactured before December 31, 1923 and the car you are driving was registered in a neighboring jurisdiction but the registration was not renewed after January 1, 1989, or if [...]

Baby Steps

Here at Musematic we are taking our fist blogging babysteps and we are still a little wobbly, like a toddler. Today we fell down and scraped our knee. Actually not entirely us, but there was a little bit of a burp with the database underlying WordPress that meant we lost some posts for a while. [...]

AAM’s Media & Technology SPC / Museum Computer Network

Two organizations, lots of cross-over members, what’s the difference between these two groups? Should I belong to both? Should I belong to one and not the other? If you are asking yourself any of these questions, you aren’t alone. Boards of both organizations have been working separately and together (and this joint blog is an [...]

Notes on Seeing <--> Knowing

In her 1992 book, “Museums & the Shaping of Knowledge,” Eilean Hooper-Greenhill speaks of the promise of the Museum as a place where “knowing can alter seeing.” I think those of us who work in interactive educational technologies (or with docents, for that matter), have seen this happen time and again. But if you love [...]

Built to Last? Usually an open question.

File this under fairly obvious, but bears repeating… Inside its walls, a museum is a place of projects: building projects, scholarly projects, educational projects, technology projects, public relations projects, fundraising projects, and often all of these combined. Even beyond budget, projects always come down to people getting the things done, and keeping them going. For [...]

Museum Blogging

While blogs have been around for the last few years, it is only recently that museums have started using blogs as part of carrying out their mission. Blogs began mainly are personal “web logs” and a few intrepid museum professionals that have been adding their voices to the blogosphere. Museums have also begun to use [...]

Should it be more fun than my first life?

This might be too Pollyanna for some of you… As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been doing some exploring in “Second Life (www.secondlife.com).” You need to know that I’m a middle-aged woman from the mid-west with a Ph.D. in 15th century Italian fresco painting (you can imagine how pleased my parents were). Thus [...]

What’s the Difference Between a CIO and CTO?

CIO? CTO? Who are these people?. Well, both are Chief Officers of some description, one “does” Information and one “does” Technology – certainly that’s the plan. Large museums might be lucky enough to have one or the other, some might even have both. Small museums usually have neither. If they’re lucky, they have “Bob the [...]

Small Claims Court for Copyright Cases?

http://www.stockasylum.com/text-pages/articles/a6sp032006-smallclaims.htm “Asserting that photographers are “disenfranchised by the copyright system” because they cannot afford expensive court proceedures to protect their images, Victor Perlman told a congressional committee that the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) would support creation of a small claims copyright court or some other low-cost legal procedure to help copyright owners protect [...]