Pew Research Center posted yesterday that ownership of tablets and e-reader’s among adults went from 18% to 29% over the holiday period. As museum and technology nerds we’ve all been waiting for the coming wave of these personal devices. Is your institution ready for this boom? I know mine isn’t! I don’t even have a [...]
It had to happen: the app as social protest tool. “Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object’s manufacturer/publisher is a supporter of the much maligned Stop Online Piracy Act. …You could even [...]
This is my last regular blog for Musematic.net. I’ve had a great time thinking out loud in this location beginning with my very first post, about Madonna, on Wednesday March 15 2006 but it’s time to pass the torch to the bright, young, talented generation doing fantastic things for museums and technology. As I’ve returned [...]
From the always-worth-reading Nicolas Carr (author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains), an interesting view on the “appification” of media. “Not only has the net left its Wild West days; it’s entered the era of the gated suburban subdivision. As part of this trend, the open, html-based website is being [...]
An issue I’m currently struggling with… To CIO, or not to CIO – that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of mismanaged data Or to take arms against a sea of piecemeal information decisions And by strategizing, end them. To define, to plan – A CIO [...]
For those of you that made it to Atlanta, I did a brief presentation at MCN2011 about collaboration to create digital interactive exhibits. Some people noted that my presentation contained references to the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Why the Wu? I choose them because they are an extraordinary example of the benefits of working on [...]
UK’s Royal Society has made access to its historical journal (60,000+ papers) available free online. Here’s a great article from BBC on the topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15445507
Intel’s new collection of stories, The Tomorrow Project: Best Selling Authors Describe Daily Life in the Future, is read according to an article on the BBC’s website today. For more here’s a link to the the press release from Intel with video and links to podcasts of authors reading chapters.
Many of you are probably already familiar with the new IMLS initiative “Let’s Move.” To quote from the IMLS website “Let’s Move” “is a comprehensive initiative, launched by the First Lady Michelle Obama, dedicated to solving the problem of obesity within a generation, so that children born today will grow up healthier and able to [...]
Terrific OpEd piece by Holland Cotter in this morning’s NYT. Opportunity on Madison.
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