A friend of mine recently forwarded to me a news announcement about a Silicon Valley startup, Multiverse, securing $4.125 million in funding. This isn’t the sort of news item my friends tend to send me (you should see my collection of lolcats), so I was curious about this. Turns out, Multiverse is a company seeking [...]
“Giant microwave turns plastic back to oil – New Scientist – Environment” Please note that this one is filed under “Random Musings.” Very random. I mean, I saw the headline on Slashdot first, so that makes it Technology, right? As for Museums, well… I was researching the Barbie in a Blender infringement case (photographs by [...]
NBC-Universal is asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stamp out digital piracy — by policing the Internet. The Justice Department suggests making “attempted” infringement a crime. It’s a long story (see http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1019), but one thing stands out. “NBC is asking the FCC to write new copyright law. Most of their filing is the usual [...]
Hi Folks. Long Time No Blog. The subject of today’s blog may seem strange at first but I hope you will read on. Nik Honeysett and I had an interesting gig this week. We were invited by the U.S. Army to present a session entitled “Hidden Treasures: Marketing Your Collections to Meet the Mission, Challenges, [...]
A costumer friend of mine recently blogged about the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new high-resolution image ordering feature. Basically, when you search their collections, you can add images to an order and the images are bundled by their system when you check out. After being sent an email letting you know that all of the [...]
Since it’s officially summer and gas prices are so very high, I thought I’d take MVF on some virtual road trips. We’ve talked mostly about Second Life here because it is one of the largest virtual environments currently being used. But its not the only one — more keep appearing every day. Today we’ll take [...]
via Ken Hamma & MCN-L EMC also announced the EMC Heritage Trust Project, which recognizes and supports projects in local communities around the world that are designed to protect this invaluable information and improve access to it. Any public or private local organization, institution, or any individual, may apply or be nominated for recognition and [...]
Yikes. Another one. I’m definitely taking my kids out of middle school. Just who are the “pirates” here? Kids, or those who want to highjack their intelligence? Donny The Downloader Apparently one of the dire consequences of downloading is that your Mom will get fired and you won’t be able to go to cheerleader camp. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Richard put up a YouTube video explaining Microsoft Labs’ new Photosynth project. I have to admit that it took me a couple of weeks to catch on to the buzz, and I watched the TED presentation this morning at the urging of another friend. Please forgive me if this is [...]
The Copyright Office has launched an interactive website aimed at middle-school children. The goal of “Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright” is to explain U.S. copyright law. To view this latest effort at aiming things at middle-school children, go to: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright Library of Congress First it was Captain Copyright, now [...]
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