The Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship is pleased to announce that, effective Fall 2008, a new and permanent section of each issue will be devoted to the topic of Digital Heritage. This new section will feature peer-reviewed articles — as well as notes, comments, discussions, reviews, and reports — covering research related to the [...]
The past couple of weeks have been eventful for me, what with traveling across the state to crash a couple of librarian parties (I kid! I kid! I was invited fair and square!). The first was attending OCLC’s open house at their new location in San Mateo. The location itself is beautiful – surrounded by [...]
Here’s a cool idea that goes the Kindle one better. Not surprisingly, it’s a student project. I wonder how much Amazon’s designers made while not thinking of this: “A concept from a student named Nedzad Mujcinovic at Monash University could very well stoke the fires of competition if his Livre ever makes it to store [...]
We are two weeks away from an annual techie migration called DrupalCon. This year it takes place in my town, Boston, so I am especially interested. I am also pleased that we’re garnering some local bragging rights once registration leapt passed last year’s Barcelona DrupalCon weeks ago and may even max out very soon. If [...]
Introducing the launch of MuseTech Central, the MCN Project Registry!MuseTech Central provides a place to share information about technology-related projects in the cultural heritage sector. From implementations of digital asset management systems, to the latest use of educational media and interactives, the registry represents the latest technology and information management projects in museums, libraries, and [...]
This just in from the world I can’t quite seem to keep up with. A sort of YouTube for documents. Not sure what implications and applications there are here for museums, but I have the feeling something’s up. I remember lots of predictions about e-paper; this may be the latest iteration of the idea. Inevitably, [...]
You need one of these, right? This is a nifty weekend project to lure you away from the computer screen. Instructions and inspiration at Evil Mad Scientist. Finished products, if any, will be duly admired at MCN 2008. While sipping one of Nik’s cocktails, of course.
No, sorry, not those results. I mean the really interesting results, y’know, the top 100 domain name sales for 2007. I really am in the wrong business. Below are the top 20 domain name sales which represent a cool $28.3M. And whaddaya know? Pornography leads the way. Porn.com $9,500,000 Computer.com $2,100,000 Seniors.com $1,800,000 Tandberg.com $1,500,000 [...]
Thanks to Richard for bringing up the subject of museum advocacy this election year; I couldn’t agree more that the subject should be at the top of our list of concerns. With perfect timing, I mailed in my absentee ballot for the primary one day before I ran across this: US Presidential Candidates Reveal Positions [...]
I spend an extraordinary amount of time these days reading and thinking about what libraries do better than museums and how we can more effectively learn from them without compromising what makes museums museums. I’ve come across a number of interesting articles and I will share two of them here with you, for reasons which will [...]
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