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You gotta have a teenager to think these are funny….

And you may think they are horrible.  If you don’t like rap and/or hip-hop and/or if you are humorless just go read something else now.  Bad language and manipulation of popular cartoon characters follows…… My life with a fourteen year old son is punctuated by periods of rap music.   This summer and spring I have been haunted (or rather [...]

Mapping MCN

I’m spending the afternoon getting materials together for a little poster we’ll have at the conference next week that charts the history of MCN over the last 40 years. In a moment of Web 2.0 fueled distraction I decided to throw the list of MCN Conferences and locations into a Google MyMap. View Larger Map [...]

LOLzombies

In my art school days, I frequently thought about ways in which art could be interactive. I was always much more interested in the dynamics of direct human interaction with some mediated form. No doubt responding to the concurrent art history lectures which represented the art world, aka “the establishment”, in my mind this was [...]

The Napkin of Sacred Technology

I couldn’t resist….I had to click through http://www.transformspirit.com/nost/index.html

Technology-in-the-Movie Moments

These are some of my favourite moments, in the spirit or sharing, what are yours? Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. Scotty tries to turn on a 20th century computer by saying “Computer On” The 20th century guy tells him he has to use the mouse. Scotty picks up the mouse and speaks into it [...]

Horsetrade

Last week I found myself in Denver at the AAM National Program Committee (NPC) horsetrade, where sessions are selected for the upcoming annual meeting. I found myself there due to another case of taking a restroom break just as volunteers were being sought by committee vote. Its curious that this strategy works in a restaurant [...]

U.S.- China Dialogue Day 3

93,670,148 Worldcat records this morning   Lorcan Dempsey – Vice President and Chief Strategist, OCLC   Lorcan spoke about the ways in which networks are changing, and the ways in which libraries work.  The structural changes we are seeing in the networked environment some of the ways in which skills and people need to develop.  [...]

New Museum Studies Program at Johns Hopkins

While this may not be news to some of our bloggers — check the faculty page to see why! — it certainly is exciting for us all to learn that the new Museum Studies degree program (available almost entirely online) has been approved at Johns Hopkins!! “The aim of this program is to provide a [...]

U.S. China Dialogue – Day 2 (Afternoon Sessions)

And…we are back from lunch.  I’m doing these as separate blogs because it’s more convenient (for me).  Afternoon Session I – Current Issues of Museums and other Cultural Institutions Joyce Ray – Associate Deputy Director for Library Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services Current Issues of Museums and Intersections with Other Cultural Institutions Milestones [...]

U.S. China Dialogue Day 2 (Morning Sessions)

93,627,475 WorldCat Records This Morning (I know you were waiting for the updated number) Right, don’t know how coherent I’ll be this morning.  Delegates to this conference had a lovely banquet in the atrium space of OCLC HQ which ended with a rousing sing-off between the Chinese delegates and the United States delegates.   This is apparently a long-standing tradition.  [...]