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Sharks, Spam, and Second Life (Oh My)

First Alan Levine from the Horizon Project Advisory Board (last years) this note: “3D Mailbox delivers a fantastic, smarter e-mail experience. Immerse yourself in 3-D as you read and write your mail. Relax to the sounds of the ocean, seagulls, and cool tunes. Hang with your mail poolside, or feed your spam to the sharks! [...]

End User License Agreement, Choral Version

You’re bored, right? Sitting there in your Dilbertesque cubicle, poking away at metadata fields and wondering if there isn’t more to life. So here’s something to shake up the day. “Celebrate Sony/BMG’s lawsuit against SunComm, the company that provided the rootkit spyware that caused such a ruckus, with this oddly powerful rendition of the Sony/BMG [...]

Fresh+New(est)

I’m pleased to welcome our newest contributor to Musematic, Seb Chan. Many of us have followed the exciting work that Seb has done on the Powerhouse’s OPAC2.0 – much of it documented via the Fresh+New blog. Seb is also the co-author of Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere, presented at the 2007 Museums [...]

DAM I/O

I’m in a discussion, oh alright then, disagreement with our IT department over the use of our DAM. In case you’re interested we use TEAMS which was originally from Artesia but now is called Artesia DAM and is owned by OpenText. The discussion is about what should go into it. They want a specific list [...]

Metaverse Friday (Fortnight) – Metafatigue

Warning: whinging ahead. Man, I am so tired of Second Life right now. I’ve not logged on for any appreciable amount of time lately, and certainly not enough to explore some of the really interesting things people are doing with the tools available, or learn about some of the lectures going on. And as my [...]

A Matter of Trust

We have a digital preservation initiative (in its infancy) to establish a Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) for our digital resources and data. If you’re not familiar with these terms check out these links: http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/tutorial/dpm/eng_index.html http://www.rlg.org/longterm/ http://www.rlg.org/longterm/attributes01.pdf Essentially its about ensuring that your grandchildren who have continued on in the museum-profession family business can access and [...]

Rocky Mountain High Adventure (mmm…in Colorado)

Two blogs in one day. Who’d a thought? 4th of July weekend I, once again, abandoned my family (Curt’s words) for a trip to Colorado. My purpose was to attend the wedding of my college advisor’s daughter, Katie (born the summer of my Freshman year), who had determined to celebrate her wedding in the meadow [...]

I-Pod Parody (if you are one of the 3 or 4 people who haven’t seen it)

If Microsoft designed Ipod packaging…. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=36099539665548298 And the surprising information that the parody came from within Microsoft itself. http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/25957 Both things slightly dated but just for fun on a Sunday.

Pilgrims Wanted

If you haven’t made a pilgrimage to an Apple store to see a real life iPhone, you should. First, let me apologize for harping on about the iPhone, but I really believe this is a watershed moment, for the reasons I’ve blogged: ‘its software wrapped up in cool hardware’. It’s a compelling device and my [...]

Happy Birthday Museum Computer Network!

Dateline April-May-June 1967 Elvis and Priscilla get married. Thousands march in protest of the Vietnam War. The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It’s the beginning of the “Summer of Love.” In New York City, representatives from fifteen museums gather for a meeting at the Whitney to discuss whether they should create a [...]