The team in Florence looking for Leonardo’s lost “Battle of Anghiari” is in the market for a new Gamma camera. Watch the Kickstarter video and pass it on.
As the morning wears on in the office, and we all hack our way through the endless thicket of e-mails from co-workers and clients who, with increasing urgency, each observe that their project is of unimaginable importance to mankind, the first of its kind in history, and the thing that will bring ultimate enlightenment to [...]
Musematic seems the proper place to put this on the record. There’s no sense in in re-stating what’s already been stated well by Susan Chun, so I’m just going to quote her, below. The debate is available online, here. This year, the MCN conference’s closing plenary was a formal debate, featuring two teams of debaters [...]
Thanks to my fantastic teaching assistant, Julie, for bringing this article to my attention, from Intelligent Life magazine (Winter 2009). In it, professional cricket player, Ed Smith, asks the question “Are we too professional?” I’d be the first to admit that museums don’t have a lot in common with professional cricket, but I nearly fell [...]
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 was at a recent seminar entitled “Looking for the Upside in the Downturn: Time-Tested Models of Nonprofit Innovation” hosted by the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences at the University of San Diego. Notwithstanding the paradox in the title, there was a really good session on collaboration, a subject near and dear to my [...]
LET’S DO I.T. RIGHT! [www.mcn.edu/conferences] 36th Annual MCN Conference November 12th -15th, 2008 Washington, DC Save now! The Early Bird Registration Deadline is September 27, 2008. http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=888 MCN Members Earlybird: $425.00 | Regular: $475.00 Non-Members Earlybird: $500.00 | Regular: $550.00 Emerging Professional/Student Members Earlybird: $200.00 | Regular: $250.00 To qualify for [...]
Just thought I’d mention that the UK came 4th in the medals in Beijing. Best performance in 100 years, makes me all nostalgic <sniff> … but then I look out of my office window down to the Pacific Ocean… There’s a great lecture from Carnegie Mellon University on iTunesU by Kai-Fu Lee who heads up [...]
AAM Denver’s done and I’m looking forward to a 48-hour nap without the AC running all night. Among various committee and board meetings, I managed to do two presentations. I had the pleasure of presenting a session with two women each with a fantastic sense of humour: Holly Witchey and Diane Andolsek. The session was [...]
Auntie Beeb (the semi-affectionate name for the BBC) has a documentary series called I Wish I’d Thought Of That, which starts off with an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and Weaving the World Wide Web. Sir Tim is to www what James Brown is to Soul, except that the Godfather of Soul didn’t invent Soul. (Sorry, [...]
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