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The Great Escape

MCN 2008 – Alternative interactive devices strike a chord

One of the last and best sessions at the MCN conference was on the Horizon report. I had planned to skip out on Saturday and tour a couple of museums. However, my better judgement got a hold of me and I knew that i should hear about the technologies culture institutions are adopting. It was a really [...]

MCN 2008 – Reflections

I just made a batch of cranberry sauce and put on the kettle for a Theraflu to keep a coming cold at bay. The holidays are upon us and the MCN conference is now several weeks behind us. For the last two years, the MCN board has asked conference scholarship recipients to write a post for this blog, [...]

Kahunas

I had to miss MCN this year for the first time in a while, I’m now suffering from PTMCNSD (post traumatic MCN stress disorder) hearing about the great time everyone had. I missed it partly because my boss was travelling and someone needed to fend off the mountain lion and partly because I had another [...]

MCN 2008 – Slides on Slideshare

Hi there, Armchair delegate here. Sgt. Edward “Killer” Bachta and Pfc. Rob Stein have posted the slides from their MCN 2008 “Drupal Bootcamp” to Slideshare.net. Drupal Bootcamp Mcn2008 View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: network computer) Also check out Peter Fleck’s “RSS Primer” and “Why I Hate Facebook or What Social Network Should [...]

Goodbye MCN 2008, it was grand knowing you

Another MCN over. I’m probably going to have to wait a day or two for things to sink in for me to figure out what I’ve learned. Sometimes it isn’t even the presentations themselves, it is the casual mentions by a listener, or the casual conversation in a hall. My own archive, for instance, has [...]

MCN 2008 winddown

It was the last day of the MCN conference today. Washington DC is cloudy, rainy, and humid, and there are a few large protests downtown, making the place extra exciting. I’ve had a whole week’s worth of exciting, so I’m happily curled up on a couch in Suzy Sarraf’s beautiful condo, relaxing and trying to [...]

Open Source Digital Asset Management/Preservation on the Cheap

I’m not seeing much blogging about MCN2008. (I suspect because, as usual, too many of us are having too good a time networking and attending sessions, abetted by the rather unfortunate lack of technical facilities–wireless, comes to mind–that would often be present at a gathering of, uh, techies. Expect some changes as we prepare for [...]

Follow the Leader

Interesting conversations are engendered by pajamas. Many of my deepest chitchats begin when I and a friend are safely tucked into our jammies and curled on the couch. I’m currently in Washington DC to attend the Museum Computer Network conference. I’m staying with the ever-wonderful Suzy Sarraf, and after a bit of a lazy day [...]

Armchair Delegate

I’ve been watching the news roll in of various friends flying off to D.C.  for MCN 2008.  It’s making me a little sad because for the first time since about 2002 I won’t be attending this year.  But this year has been an interesting year to be an armchair conference attendee.  Via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, [...]