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American (Association of Museums) Idols

Just back from AAM and since the conference was slam bang in the middle of the American Idol extravaganza, I wanted to nominate a few of my own American Idols. Huzzah for the Digital Jump-Start Unconference Co-chaired by Sharon Leon and Michael Edson Kudos and a special champagne toast to the entire Media & Technology [...]

Falling on Olympic Avenue

At 8 am this morning, in the middle of Olympic Avenue, in Los Angeles, on my way to chair a session at AAM, I fell. I think this is a story about unemployment. I’m not really unemployed, I’m underemployed.  I teach, I do contract work and I truly enjoy what I do.  I’ve been very [...]

Had to Share

If you’re coming to LA for AAM you’ll be able to see the real thing but in a shameless plug, I had to share the next best thing. We’re opening a redesigned gallery featuring Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Click here to see the re-designed gallery. A focal piece of the sculpture and [...]

If you work at a museum you must watch this! Really, really!

Kim the Kitten reads an executive summary of her report about museums entitled “We love museums…Do Museums Love Us Back?” Don’t go to AAM until you’ve watched it.  In fact, don’t go back to work tomorrow morning until you’ve watched it.

Cultural Collections and the Semantic Web

Within change lies great opportunity, but what happens when individual change is incremental and the rest of the world is exponential? Our cultural institutions are in the slow lane, still, and they are being threatened because of it.

Snack Time!

I don’t even have the merest sliver of an actual link to new technologies in this blog post.  I believe inherently in the value of a meritocracy and I think that the woman who writes the weekly webzine Luxirare has outdone herself with this avocado/crab recipe. And if you like that here’s a link to [...]

Hooray for Hollywood

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Fred Allen (You’re impressed I have a quote about conferences, huh?) And so it goes as we approach another AAM conference, this year hosted in my home town. I was trying to [...]