Oh Lucy…..Second Life makes my head hurt sometimes. I’ve been avoiding my avatar (Helena Eponym) recently. She’s been having a bad hair month. I was doing some exploring a while back and had a run in with some free hair bits. Basically what happened was this, in one of those free emporia in Second Life [...]
Oh, those Californians have done it again. Friday my hometown paper greeted me with the news that my favorite House Representative, George Miller, was now a presence on Capitol Hill Island in Second Life. Apparently the work was finished just in time for San Francisco’s own Nancy Pelosi to be sworn in as Speaker of [...]
Some of you may have seen in the news recently that ICANN unanimously voted to remove the top-level domain .um (created for “a collection of uninhabited islands, claimed by the US under the Guano Act of 1856“) from the list of available domains. My immediate thought upon reading this news matched David Utter’s comments in [...]
Announcements, Announcements, Annnnoouuncements…..as the annoying counselors at my summer camp used to sing way too early in the morning. Announcements, I’ve got a flock of them for you today. NMC First, this just in, the New Media Consortium (www.nmc.org) has released the 2007 Horizon Report (http://www.nmc.org/horizon/index.shtml). This annual report highlights “six technologies that research suggest will [...]
I just received my AAM 2007 presenter information in the mail, and once again I’m struck by how often people use complete gibberish when writing about information technology. The “Presenter Agreement” carefully explains that the AAM will be producing a “multi-media CD-ROM” of the sessions featuring live audio recordings and presentation materials. The explanation includes [...]
I attended the New Media and Social Memory Symposium last week along with Perian and several of our MCN colleagues. Rick Rinehart and his colleagues at the University of California in Berkeley put on another very impressive program; one which was full of stimulating ideas. As Perian says, much of the talk was related to [...]
Goodbye SmartPhone, hello iPhone. So it looks as though the Smartphone is about to disappear, to be replaced by the iPhone – assuming Apple Computer wins against Cisco. Sorry, they’re not Apple Computer anymore, they’re just Apple, an event less publicized but probably more significant. If you went to MacWorld or watched the demo on [...]
Today I attended the New Media and Social Memory Symposium on preserving digital art and culture at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives. This symposium was less about immediate practical solutions and more about the need to shift current art preservation paradigms from static to dynamic models. The common thread about this necessary [...]
I had to share a mildly interesting then and now statistic. I was reading a 2002 Museums and the Web paper authored by Jonathan Bowen, titled Museophile: A community for museum e-commerce. The paper discusses museum websites and e-commerce in particular, and in it Jonathan performed some searches for the word “museum” way back in [...]
Last week I witnessed an outpouring of love, admiration and appreciation for an amazing human being–color geek Bruce Fraser. Thanks to Alan Newman (National Gallery), I knew about the event that took place last Wednesday night at MacWorld, here in San Francisco. Giants of the industry were there to honor Fraser, whose untimely death from [...]
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