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A Cunning Plan

In yet another example of timing, I find myself moderating a Webinar based on a recent AAM publication. In a double whammy of shameless plugs, the book is The Digital Museum: A Think Guide, (featuring a badly written, but well-edited essay by yours truly) and the Webinar is part of a series entitled The Digital [...]

Social Networking is Driving Me Crazy (How about you?)

Alert…more ranting about social networking…. I’m taking a break from blogging.  My cunning plan was that I would take January and February off, recharge my batteries, and see if I still had something to contribute to the Musematic arena.  Now and then, however, I find there is something I want to say and this morning social networking [...]

The end of books?

This weekend, I happened to stumble across E. Annie Proulx’s essay on the end of books – from 1994. The last few paragraphs are the most interesting in light of what’s happening 17 years later with e-books, and the recent success of Amazon’s Kindle: “Those who say the book is moribund often cite the computer [...]

Cookbook Author Sues Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld for Copyright Infringement

It’s things like this that give copyright a bad reputation. As if it didn’t already have a bad reputation, but that’s another post. Article from Reuters here.

Hacked or Whacked?

I normally wouldn’t trust a film critic to sit the right way round on a toilet seat, but I had to pass on this great review from Merry England’s Grauniad* Newspaper. Two quotes: “People are tired of seeing movies where the action is dominated by typists, archivists, hobbyists [and] librarians” Come on… really? Or this [...]

The Precious

Let me start off by stating that I am just so excited that I could just… well, ok. I won’t go there, as this is a professional blog, but new office is right underneath the washroom. ’nuff said. Many of my new job duties involve being the in-house multimedia girl. I get to look at [...]

They like us! They really like us! Musematic named as one of the top 10 blogs to read in 2007

W00t! Library and Information Science News (LISNews) just named Musematic as one of the top 10 blogs to read in 2007! Of course we hope that you’ll continue reading Musematic in 2008, too, but here’s what LISNews had to say about us: A blog about museum librarianship?? A blog about museum librarianship!! Another rare collaborative [...]

Recut, Reframe, Recycle

American University’s Center for Social Media has published its second important study on fair use in the creation of films and video. Recut, Reframe, Recyle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video follows their first study and report, the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. The new study, by Pat Aufderheide and Peter [...]

Digital Asset Management Database (DAMD) available through MCN

from Rick Rinehart, Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the MOAC: Community Toolbox Hello members of the MCN community, I’m proud to announce that, through a partnership between MCN and the MOAC consortium, MCN is now distributing to you,the members, a new free software tool for managing and sharing [...]

Digital Museums Webinar – Fellowships Available!

I may be beating Nik to the punch on this (since he’s one of the moderators!), but AAM has introduced a new web-seminar series based upon the new book, Digital Museum, The: A Think Guide. The seminars are 90-minutes, once a month, February through May, 2008. From the info page: The Digital Museum webinar series [...]