Nik Honeysett

Nik Honeysett is Head of Administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum. Prior to his current role, he managed the Getty's Web Group, responsible for all aspects of their main website and intranets. Since joining the BBC's Interactive Television Unit in 1988, he has spent his career developing or managing media and technical projects, now its people and money. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2000, he spend 12 years at Cognitive Applications, a UK-based consultancy building interactive kiosks, CD-ROMS, and websites for museums and galleries. His hobbies include writing short summary paragraphs about his career.

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The Big Switch

You’ll be pleased to know that I’ve finally figured out what is going to happen on December 21st, 2012, when our solar system crosses the galactic ecliptic and you’ll be pleased to know that its not the apocalypse. The answer was revealed to me in a blinding flash after reading Google’s announcement that they have [...]

A Waste of Talent

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 [...]

Elitist?

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 [...]

A Christmas Carol – Museum Technology Past, Present and Future

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 [...]

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 system [...]

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 [...]

Get me off Your F*****g Mail List

Best laugh I’ve had all week.
Excellent article in New Scientist, Spoof paper accepted by ‘peer-reviewed’ journal, about a peer-reviewed science journal that operates a pay-to-play submission policy. A graduate student in library and information science at Cornell University used a program that generates nonsensical computer science papers to submit a paper entitled Deconstructing Access Points, [...]

Panic in the Streets

I thought it was bad enough that the world is going to end in 2012 when our solar system crosses the galactic ecliptic, which it does every 26,000 years.
You’d better sit down…
Apparently we are days away from the Twitpocalypse – scheduled for 13 Jun 2009 at 03:30:44 AM GMT:
The Twitpocalypse is similar to the Y2K [...]

I’m No Square

I’ve blogged in the past about how its worth keeping an eye on Google Labs where cool stuff appears without a song and dance. Wouldn’t you know it, something very cool turned up today – Google Squared. Its a search, but it parses the results into a user-definable grid. Its a tool to aid research [...]

Just Wave

Its been a month since AAM, which was a very busy time, so I’ve been purposely trying to relax a bit. I realised I was spending too much time at my computer when I tried to drink a cup of coffee using my mouse – my online and real worlds momentarily merged. This happened to [...]