Ah, the irony. We were interviewing a candidate for a job today. She said how fortunate she had been to have come of age just as the internet (yes, she said, “internet” – not “web” was “created”—IM when she was 13 (about a decade ago by my estimate of her current age), and then Facebook [...]
Another MCN over. I’m probably going to have to wait a day or two for things to sink in for me to figure out what I’ve learned. Sometimes it isn’t even the presentations themselves, it is the casual mentions by a listener, or the casual conversation in a hall. My own archive, for instance, has [...]
This was going to be the blog post on twitter. Twitter is a “micro-blogging” service in which people note their day-to-day trivia in posts of 140 characters (or least). A few weeks ago, there was a nice discussion about the service on the MCN-L list, and it sounded like just about everyone but us was [...]
I sometimes despair. While I think that we slowly make slow progress in terms of doing smarter work, better, I occasionally encounter the heated query from elsewhere that makes me wonder whether those of us who are paid to be thinking about IT actually think. (Given the bizarreness of some of the election charges and [...]
What a week. And I can’t even claim to be at WebWise, the place I would rather be right now, but for having my travel curtailed temporarily for too much fun. First, I should mention that I am a person who loves live music, but averages about one live performance, be it symphony or klezmer [...]
This is for everyone playing along at home. Earlier this year Marla and I worked on an article that will appear in the next edition of the Encylopedia of Library and Information Science that covers the basics about MCN. A version of that article, A Brief History of the Museum Computer Network is available on [...]
I’m spending the afternoon getting materials together for a little poster we’ll have at the conference next week that charts the history of MCN over the last 40 years. In a moment of Web 2.0 fueled distraction I decided to throw the list of MCN Conferences and locations into a Google MyMap. View Larger Map [...]
Earlier this summer we invited Lynn Bethke to come join us here at Musematic. Lynn graduated with an MA in Museology from the University of Washington. Her blog IM in UR Museum Blogz, Read’n N Analyzin’ (which only recently was knocked from the number one slot on Google searches for “hamster macros“) chronicled the development [...]
I’m pleased to welcome our newest contributor to Musematic, Seb Chan. Many of us have followed the exciting work that Seb has done on the Powerhouse’s OPAC2.0 – much of it documented via the Fresh+New blog. Seb is also the co-author of Radical Trust: The State of the Museum Blogosphere, presented at the 2007 Museums [...]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSEMATIC! One year ago today, Holly contributed the first of approximately 160 posts to the Musematic blog. Thanks to all of you who have contributed posts and comments during our first year! Go have a cupcake to celebrate. At the time we were one of a very few museum related blogs. According to [...]
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