Nik Honeysett

Nik Honeysett is Head of Administration for the J. Paul Getty Museum and currently serves on the American Association of Museum's Board of Directors. 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 spent 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 and referring to himself in the third person.

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There’s an App for that

I’m a U.S. immigrant – legal I might add. Currently I’m a permanent resident and if my wife has her way I’ll be a citizen in the not-too-distant future. My mum has a different opinion, something about “over her dead body”. Although there is a distinct twang to it, I think I still have a [...]

Those Guys…

The IMA is like the Apolo Ohno of the museum technology world. They can’t stop winning awards: Best of the Webs, Muse Golds, even a Webby. ArtBabble is awesome, now that we’re in there. The jury’s out as to whether Rob Stein has been cloned, he’s everywhere, maybe he just never sleeps. Daniel’s definitely been [...]

Carved In Stone

There never has been and there never will be a digital recording format that lasts forever. – David Pogue – CBS Sunday Morning A couple of recent events have reminded me of the precariousness of our digital data. One was the moment I stepped on a PhotoCD (remember those?). It was a real one, not [...]

We’re Not Alone

I don’t own a Toyota although I do buy Japanese cars. I currently own a 2009 Mitsubishi Spyder Eclipse which allows me to tan while driving, albeit from the neck up. I have not experienced any acceleration problems, that weren’t of my own doing. Neither have I experienced any braking problems that weren’t of my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]