Good article by Ken Hunt in the Toronto Globe and Mail. “Illegal downloaders of music and movies are at the forefront of technology — and it’s time the industries caught up.” Hunt relates the story of Daniel Defoe’s infringers, apparently the first to be called “pirates,” a far more meaningful job description in 1701 than [...]
Fan fiction is the kind of Open Source creativity we should all be thanking God and the Founding Fathers for. This article from TechDirt makes a good point: fan fiction doesn’t need permission. Our imaginations do not require licensing. Yet.
Remember Betamax? In the late 70s, my girlfriend had a Betamax player when not many people did. Me and my mate ‘Lucky Eddie’ used to rent movies and then charge our friends an entrance fee at my girlfriend’s house to watch. They and we were very popular since the movies we rented weren’t from the [...]
I’ve mentioned the work that the Open Knowledge and the Public Interest project has been doing in Second Life in several of my presentations. They’re now ready to take the wraps off of the Catalyhoyuk Island and are doing so with a full day program. For those of you who have been less than impressed [...]
This article from arstechnica.com (here) speaks for itself. So I’ll shut up. After two quotes, that is: “How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day? John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, calculates in a new paper that he rings up $12.45 million in liability over the [...]
A little late for this year, but maybe this helpful idea (link here) from householdhacker.com will come in handy next year for all you REAL techies in the audience.
On November 6, the social networking site Facebook released a new feature, simply called “Pages.” Previously only individuals were allowed to create accounts on the site, as some non-profits discovered when they had “psuedo” accounts removed. Most museums have relied on the Facebook’s “Group” feature to allow them to connect to Facebook audiences. Now any [...]
A great suggestion from Susan Patterson, Saint Louis Art Museum, during the Directors / IT Professionals session on the first day of the conference: “How many people actually go back to their institutions and present their conference experience to their administrations?” Seeing the very few hands raised in response, we’ve decided to provide a Conference [...]
That’s what Livvy, one of my son’s best friends, said in the car on the way to the dance last night. If you were wondering what’s floating the boat of some of the teen set: http://www.freerice.com . Check it out. Makes you think maybe the world isn’t doomed to go spiralling out of control.
William Turkel has been writing a great blog called Digital History Hacks about digital tools for public history. In the spirit of the open-source conversations started last week at MCN by the Museum Software Foundation, I’m passing this along. How to Make a Museum Exhibit Mockup with Free Tools Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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