Apologies for cross-posting but I’m so excited: Perhaps you are already familiar with organizations like Groupon (http://www.groupon.com) and Living Social (www.LivingSocial.com? Every morning, delivered to my in-box, is some type of deal from a local business or organization. Perhaps it’s $50 worth of food for $25 at a local restaurant, or deep discounts on services [...]
Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie A fly can’t bird but a bird can fly Ask me a riddle and I reply Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie A fish can’t whistle and neither can I. Ask me a riddle and I reply Cottleston Cottleston Cottleston Pie –A.A. Milne A paraphrase of the text above, [...]
Patient Long-Suffering Spouse (PLSS) is annoyed. The reason: I’m obsessed with a younger man. His name is R______. He’s 35 years old. He’s likes art, travel, and books and is fluent in French and German. He is interested in everything and, though he’s a successful businessman, and the director of several companies, he’s not stodgy [...]
Hello Musematic Readers: Since early last Spring I’ve been working as Co-PI, with Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium on the latest incarnation of the 2010 Horizon Report–the first-ever Museum Edition. This report would not have been possible without the hard work of an enthusiastic and engaged Advisory Board (see pg. 34 of [...]
A little bit of fun for mid-week. via @twidale and @unsworth Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
Over the past 6 months, I’ve noticed a lot of movement in the museum job market. After the painful budget cuts and “downsizing” of two years ago, I’m having a hard time understanding what’s going on. And its not just us, even though we have over 30 vacancies on our website. In particular it seems [...]
I’m an art historian and a power-user of the collections online features offered by art museums. A couple of months ago, as part of a social media workshop, I reluctantly opened a Twitter account and set some parameters for myself so it wouldn’t take over my life: I would tweet an object a day for [...]
At MCN 2010 I’ll be participating in a follow-on to last year’s “Conference Roundup.” I wasn’t there in person, but the webcast of the session was great! I noticed that the conferences mentioned were mostly related professional conferences, without too much discussion about the kinds of research conferences that I’m usually attending these days. For [...]
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke And so it is with Google Instant, Google’s latest search engine tweak which, not content with showing you the top ten words based on the characters you have typed so far, Ajax style, wants to actually perform the search while you are typing. [...]
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