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My mouth is so much larger than my brain…about tweets.

I owe a huge apology to the other members of the MCN Board.  We had a conference call yesterday and the topic under discussion was how to use twitter best in our upcoming annual conference.   Lots of good ideas were bandied about and I know that a huge number of my colleagues use twitter in [...]

Orwell, the Kindle and the First Sale Right

Amazon’s recent remote deletion of the e-books “1984″ and “Animal Farm” (of all things) from peoples’ Kindles, and Jeff Bezo’s apology, really has shoved the DRM vs. First Sale Right issue to center stage. And it’s about time. As brief background, there’s a (rather weak) article in the New York Times. But a much better [...]

Listening to the kids, today’s version

Yesterday, my boss and I got to go talk about the Jewish Women’s Archive to a bunch of high school kids on a summer exploratory program at Brandeis University. It’s run by Lisa Colton, who is responsible for a host of things designed to make people aware of the web and how they can use [...]

What enters the Public Domain stays in the Public Domain

Nearly missed this one, and it’s good news for a change: a court ruling that the URAA trade agreement, which put foreign works that had entered the Public Domain back under copyright protection in the US, is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment. As Techcrunch reports (in detail – worth reading), “While it may seem [...]

Sculpture, Photo, Stamp – Fair Use?

Here’s a case that will interest any museum with sculpture outside: the sculptor who created the Korean War Memorial in Washington, DC, is suing the US Postal Service over use of a (licensed) photograph of the sculpture on a stamp — or more precisely for reproduction of the underlying work of art in the photograph. [...]

What is a browser

When I was at the Skirball Cultural Center and we were testing out our new children’s exhibit Noah’s Ark my favorite tool was my camcorder.  No one could say “I think they do this” or “I think they do that” because we saw what they were doing in the video.  If you want to convince [...]

ROFL…just read this facebook post from my friend Becca

Becca:  Hey, I just saw this thing on the television, it’s called the “news” or something like that-these people sit there and read stuff that’s been on the internet for days already. Has anyone seen this? I hear they talk about the weather too, but I left before finding out. 17 minutes ago

And just for the record…

I am not a metadata standard, but I play one on TV.

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Just opened my facebook account for a last check before retiring this evening and found that one of my friends had taken the following quiz: What metadata standard are you ? If  I listen carefully I think I can hear Nero fiddling outside my window.  

Computer Wizardry

There are a number of technology-related phrases that I hate and Computer Wizardry is one of them. But my all-time favorite hated phrase occurred on a children’s television news program called John Craven’s Newsround back in the early 90′s.  (Ahh, where is he now?). We had just launched a CD-ROM version of the interactive kiosk [...]