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Summer Must-Sees in Downstate NY

Corning Museum of Glass Children and teens get in free–beautiful objects, great didactics, engaged visitors, interactive demos…they are doing it all right! http://www.cmog.org/

Unnatural Acts Performed By Unwilling Participants

I was at a recent seminar entitled “Looking for the Upside in the Downturn: Time-Tested Models of Nonprofit Innovation” hosted by the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences at the University of San Diego.  Notwithstanding the paradox in the title, there was a really good session on collaboration, a subject near and dear to my [...]

If you are interested in Wallabies AND Crop Circles…

Follow the link below to an article  posted online yesterday at BBC News.  It seems that Australian wallabies get into poppy fields, consume the poppies, and, once they are  high the wallabies hop around in circles creating crop circles. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm The article is terrific but even more terrific are the comments posted below, it’s so [...]

E-communicating with th-e mass-e-s

I feel like I’ve really put my foot into yet another soggy area, e-communications. The laws of unintended entanglements are in full swing. A few years ago we noticed that we were having trouble getting our emails through spam filters. We wanted to use HTML email because it is prettier and people enjoy reading it [...]

I like the idea of user-generated content but…

…What bothers me is the mind-numbing omnipresence of this topic almost every where I go these days.   I feel a little like a lemming who hasn’t quite gone over the edge of the cliff yet, who has a sudden awareness that the cliff edge is coming, and at the same time realizes there are so many [...]

Phantom of the Opera

Like a philanderer I have a number of different browsers on the go at the same time. I have three right now: IE, Firefox and Opera, and I’m just about to add another with the release of Safari 4. I’m actually not sure why I do this, maybe its a hang-over from my programming days [...]

User-Centered Design

I’m spending a couple of days at the University of Toronto at meetings for the Mellon’s Fluid Engage project (http://fluidproject.org/projects/fluid-engage/).  We are having a primer on user-centered design this morning and the presentor just showed us this smart idea from an Amsterdam designer.  One small touch keeps public urinals 85% cleaner. http://www.urinalfly.com/

With apologies to Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach*

I won’t tweet, don’t ask me I won’t tweet, don’t ask me I won’t tweet, my friends, to you My heart won’t let my fingers do things that they should do You are short and you’re sweet, you know what, you’re so new And you know what you do to me, I’m feeling blue I’m [...]

Towards a Fedora Community for Small Archives

At last fall’s MCN conference, and again at Museums on the Web this spring, I spoke about work that the Jewish Women’s Archive is doing to set up its own repository using open source software. The basic repository we built uses Fedora with the lightest interface imaginable (ActiveFedora)–all we could afford on our own–and is [...]

On the recent invention of the internet

Ah, the irony. We were interviewing a candidate for a job today. She said how fortunate she had been to have come of age just as the internet (yes, she said, “internet” – not “web” was “created”—IM when she was 13 (about a decade ago by my estimate of her current age), and then Facebook [...]