This weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Second Life Community Convention – IRL! The convention was different than many of the professional workshops I attend. SLCC is now just three years old and entirely run by volunteer members of the community and included educators, residents, developers, artists, and businesses all mixing and mingling [...]
Film preservationists take note! This is what can happen to *your collection* if the proper precautionary steps are not performed! Consider yourself forewarned – duhduhduh!! “What survived, survived piecemeal,” according to Sky Hepburn, who calls herself a ‘film preservationist’ even though, strictly speaking, there is no ‘film’ left to preserve. “We work with a variety [...]
My kids go back to school this week. Awesome. Its timely because I recently discovered iTunesU. It too is Awesome. MIT, Stanford, Michigan Tech and UC Berkeley are just some of the universities that have posted their lectures there, wholesale. It is fantastically compelling. Of course, you don’t get to see what the lecturer is [...]
The National Joint Committee for Archives, Libraries, and Museums (CALM) sponsored sessions at AAM 2006 in Boston and at ALA this past June in Washington D.C. about areas of convergence for the three types of institutions. I moderated both these sessions and, to help myself remember what was said, I took copious notes. My library and archive colleagues on [...]
I’m not sure why, but when I see headlines like this in the middle of a long, frustrating day, it gives me hope that apparently, fundamentally, at it’s core, all is well with the world. And that NASA has it’s cultural heritage priorities right. “In honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars, NASA will [...]
A bit of mid-week levity. Is it Friday yet? too true! (not safe for work, by the way. No visuals, just language) Also, for those who deign the enjoyments of the comments sections of blogs, how about some real-life Second Life? (safe for work. thanks Richard for pointing it out to me months ago!)
For the chosen among us: Autumn brings dollars Like leaves falling from the trees Federal funds mount For the rejected among us: It is now Autumn Fall begins with bitter words Grants are rejected
For the past few weeks, I’ve been idly keeping an eye on some little bits of news about Second Life and There.com. Seems that as the metaverse becomes more active, little earthquakes happen which affect everyone. Take, for example, the news that Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, are aggressively shutting down gambling enterprises [...]
To commemorate MCN’s 40th birthday this year we are planning a little exhibit at the November conference in Chicago. While we have some older photos and materials from the MCN archive at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we’d like your help filling the gaps. Do you have pictures of past MCN conferences that you’d be willing [...]
Not nearly as much fun as steampunk robot wars, which may explain why I’ve been so, uh, steamed since the AAM Annual Meeting in April. One of the sessions advertised itself as a discussion of how archives, libraries and museums could work together. Since I specialize in accessibility, interpretation, and contextualization of museum collection items, [...]
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