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Anyone for a field trip to the Science Museum in London?

’1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World’ at the Science Museum in London!  Read the BBC article describing the exhibition.   Or, better yet,  visit the excellent exhibition website.

World’s Fair Use Day

The first annual World’s Fair Use Day, in Washington DC, has come and gone, but good stuff about what happened can be found on techdirt and on thecommandline. Also, of course, at www.worldsfairuseday.org.

D for Digitize, G for Google

For those who are really caught up in the on-going saga known as the Google Books Settlement (by far the best reality show now running) and the impact of book digitization on our culture in general, here are the links to Peter Hirtle’s extensive summaries of the D for Digitize conference at NY Law School, [...]

My first post, and, because it’s Friday, some 1952 news footage of the first museum handheld. [Take 2]

Thanks for the introduction Nik, but where do I start? My inclination is to dive in and share my confoundedness about the abundance of auto-triggered audio tours in Israel.  Or to recall my nostalgia at discovering Japan to be not just the hi-tech whiz country of my imagination, but apparently the graveyard for much of [...]

MCN 2008: good goings-on in Washington, DC

As many of you know because you were there making it happen, the Museum Computer Network (MCN) held its 36th annual conference in Washington, DC, from November 12 through 15. MCN provides continuing opportunities to explore and disseminate new technologies and best practices in museum information work. This year’s conference theme was “Let’s Do I.T. [...]

Goodbye MCN 2008, it was grand knowing you

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 [...]

MCN 2008 winddown

It was the last day of the MCN conference today. Washington DC is cloudy, rainy, and humid, and there are a few large protests downtown, making the place extra exciting. I’ve had a whole week’s worth of exciting, so I’m happily curled up on a couch in Suzy Sarraf’s beautiful condo, relaxing and trying to [...]

Armchair Delegate

I’ve been watching the news roll in of various friends flying off to D.C.  for MCN 2008.  It’s making me a little sad because for the first time since about 2002 I won’t be attending this year.  But this year has been an interesting year to be an armchair conference attendee.  Via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, [...]

Call For End to Binary Discussion Of Rightsholders Versus Pirates

Speaking of piracy (which I seem to be doing an awful lot lately), IP Watch has a good article on the recent Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. Copyright discussion has become a simplistic binary debate of “pirates that steal everything” versus “rightsholders that want to protect everything,” warned Japanese entrepreneur, blogger and CEO of the [...]

MCN 2008 Conference Registration is Open

    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 [...]