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Smartphones r us

Whatever we’re doing with smartphones, we aren’t doing enough. We finally have a ubiquitous computing device that everyone seems to have, and seems to use as functional extensions of the brain and fingers.

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I never take audio guides. I can’t stand them!

“I never take audio guides.  I can’t stand them!” I love that phrase.  I think it encapsulates everything museums have got wrong with mobile interpretation.  I’ve now heard it so often that I’ve resigned myself to producing a polite smile each time I hear it; I’m rarely able to summon the strength to follow it [...]

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About that 1952 Sedelijk Museum audio guide, and a certain Willem Sandburg

Over the last couple of weeks  – thanks in part to me also posting the news footage on the MCN listserv – I’ve received a number of questions about the 1952 Stedelijk Museum audio guide: how the technology worked, who developed it, why it was installed, and what the Dutch commentator says (see end for [...]

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