This little item’s brilliance is that it combines library science, recycling, remixing, community building and social media — and antique collecting, too, I suppose. “A traditional red phone box has been recycled into one of the country’s smallest lending libraries – stocking 100 books. Villagers from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset can use the library around the [...]
I went to my 10 (soon to be 11) year-old’s talent show on Friday night. As a compulsive viewer of American Idol, X-Factor and So You Think You Can Dance (Dance, Dance…), I am a big fan of this kind of thing. I love watching the American Idol auditions in particular, to witness the culmination [...]
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My second MCN conference presentation was the conference round up session where a group of us got 7 minutes each to recap on a conference we attended during the year. I got TED. No I didn’t get to attend, but I watched it on TV – well, the web at least. I’ve never been to [...]
Its been a while. In fact its been six months. I only have so much writing in me and I’ve spent the summer preparing, and the fall teaching, a course through Johns Hopkins online Museum Studies Program. The course is entitled The Management of Technology in Museums. Its really a boot camp in museum technology [...]
Clever. And there’s more: “Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales” When the news broke earlier this week that the so-famous-you’ve-never-heard-of-it BlueBeat.com was both streaming and selling The Beatles remasters—and for 25¢ a track—we speculated that an entertainingly weird legal theory was at the root of this behavior. We just had no [...]
It’s not coming up with the idea… we all have great ideas. It is about making ideas happen. Successful people start and complete projects. You don’t succeed unless you’re not afraid to start and not driven enough to finish. Here is a great video from Seth Godin on that subject: Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain from 99% [...]
I love this stuff. Big news from Xerox: “With the development of a new silver ink, Xerox scientists have paved the way for commercialization and low-cost manufacturing of printable electronics. Printable electronics offers manufacturers a very low-cost way to add “intelligence” or computing power to a wide range of surfaces such as plastic or fabric… [...]
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