Musematic is about to move to a new server shortly, possibly even today. It should be painless and seemless. A bit like that seemless transition when a very important museum upgraded the hardware of their touchscreen kiosks. They forgot to buy monitors with touchscreens and worse, the monitors they bought weren’t compatible with any commercially [...]
If you’ve read the AAM preliminary program (p. 62) or visited ambientaccess.com you’ll see that there’s a revolution about to happen in the museum community, in Philly. Ambient Access™ A revolutionary new software for museums. Premiering at the AAM 2009 Conference in Philadelphia, May 1–3 www.ambientaccess.com give your audiences what they want. Present your collections [...]
Yes, we can. How awesome. http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/ “Copyright Notice “Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. “Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]
Yesterday I got an almost normal email from a colleague asking staff members to come up with projects for college interns specializing in arts and non-profit management administration. In the email she listed the types of projects the students might do. One of the items on my list caught my eye: –imputing data I assumed she [...]
I blogged about using HyperCard last year (The Dog Ate My Blog), lamenting the loss of a great development tool that was genuinely object oriented. So news from MacWorld that a startup company called TileStack is hoping to re-invent it for the web came as a shock. You can upload a stack (over 80 completely [...]
I’m a recovering programmer. At one point I wasn’t bad, even though my code was once described as Baroque. I didn’t bother to ask whether it was: “extravagantly ornate or florid” or: “irregular in shape” or even: “anything extravagantly ornamented, esp. something so ornate as to be in bad taste” But I wasn’t a natural [...]
We have a phrase in the UK, “Taking the Piss”. Vrb phrs. 1. To ridicule, to tease, to make fun off. Cf. ‘extract the urine’. 2. To take advantage of, to exploit. So that’s exactly how I felt reading this article on Technology’s next frontier: In-car computing particularly this bit: “Consumers want a vehicle that’s [...]
There’s still time to submit your project for the 2009 MUSE Awards! Announcing the 2009 AAM Muse Awards Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 20th annual Muse Awards competition. The 2008 Muse Awards competition received nearly 200 applications from a wide variety of museums in North America, [...]
Periodically, one or other of the listservs that I subscribe to receives a post requesting technology strategic planning help – ostensibly they want to see what everyone else is writing. The request is followed by a spate of similar requests, everyone hoping that someone else is going to send that magical document that they just [...]
Friend Amalyah sent me an email the other today telling me to get up off my duff and post. My reply to her was I didn’t have much of anything that was postworthy. Some of you may feel that I consistently fulfill my blog responsibilities by posting non-postworthy stuff but this is different. Because my primary functionality [...]
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