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Digital curators with a small “c”

I ran into an interesting blog post about “digital curators” (in the sense of people who filter digital content). A couple of sentences (quoted below) stood out, in connection with recent conversations I’ve had about museum websites. Well, big, heavy, traditional museums’ websites, that is. It struck me that it’s this kind of thinking we [...]

The Big One

We’re in the process (as we all should be) of disaster planning. We have two projects, one is Emergency Response – what to do when “The Big One” hits Los Angeles, the other is Business Recovery – how to get back to work and open to the public. Emergency Response is pretty easy. First we [...]

They like us! They really like us! Musematic named as one of the top 10 blogs to read in 2007

W00t! Library and Information Science News (LISNews) just named Musematic as one of the top 10 blogs to read in 2007! Of course we hope that you’ll continue reading Musematic in 2008, too, but here’s what LISNews had to say about us: A blog about museum librarianship?? A blog about museum librarianship!! Another rare collaborative [...]

Dear Santa

Dear Santa, As I mentioned when we met last weekend at the Shopping Mall, I have been extraordinarily good this year so here is my Christmas List. I have to say you don’t look anything like Tim Allen, and you really should get a grip on your brother Fred. Anyway here’s my list: An OC-3072 [...]

Déjà Blu

Remember Betamax? In the late 70s, my girlfriend had a Betamax player when not many people did. Me and my mate ‘Lucky Eddie’ used to rent movies and then charge our friends an entrance fee at my girlfriend’s house to watch. They and we were very popular since the movies we rented weren’t from the [...]

Showbusiness

I voted in the recent AVISO survey ‘In hiring a new CEO, which of the following is most desirable to you?’, the choices were: Museum studies degree, Discipline-specific degree (art, history, etc.) or Management degree. I thought the results were very interesting. Two thirds voted for the desirability of a Museum studies or a Discipline-specific [...]

Shiny-Gadget Gene

As a male whose shiny-gadget gene actually occupies a whole chromosome, it seems curious that it is only recently that I took the plunge to stay connected 24/7. I am the proud father of a Treo. I was stalling largely because I spend enough time working as it is and having access to my email [...]

3D – without the glasses

I went to visit a local creative services company a few days ago. I thought the days of cool company offices disappeared in the 90s when the bubble bust, but I’m pleased to report it is alive and well and living in Los Angeles. Primarily I went to see an Autostereoscopic display – say what? [...]

‘I’m not Samuel Pepys!’

That was my reply a couple of weeks ago to a friend and occasional colleague who, basically, told me to stop being lazy and start posting more regularly.   He was chiding me for not stepping up to the plate the way I had at the beginning when this project started. I whined a little bit [...]

Some of my best friends are vendors…

A session I’d proposed for a national conference was rejected last week.  Among the very good reasons for rejecting it was the tired old refrain “too many vendors.”  It is time for museums to wake up and smell the coffee.  Vendors and independent professionals (IPs)–as a group–are not our enemies to be feared and prevented [...]