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Now that’s collaborative: hitRECord

I’m gonna let Joseph Gordon-Levitt speak for himself: http://hitrecord.org/reel

The “cloud” and cultural heritage

If you notice, as I have noticed, that organizations our size represent the “long tail” of our planet’s documented/preserved cultural history then this also means that for the first time we aren’t reliant on a few large museums gathering physical stuff into one place for access to this richness.

Many Bills

From the folks at IBM that brought you the Many Eyes visualization service,   a new tool called Many Bills (as in U.S. Government legislation)  is now available. Curious about bills having to do with museums?   libraries? archives?

Things they don’t teach you in “search” school

I work for a women’s archive. This means that a great many of the people we write about have significant middle names. Unlike men, after all, women are often expected to give up their “maiden” names when they marry. This leads to interesting search problems. In most cases, however, a search in Google (or on [...]

The Amazing Non-downloadable iPhone App

When low tech is high tech: Use a Glass as a Smartphone Speaker “I rarely use my iPhone to blast music but when me and a group of my buddies were all listening to a new song, one of them (who also has an iPhone) grabbed my phone and a cup… it was amazing …The [...]

Zen and the Art of Web Design

Enough New Year’s cheer. This one is serious: Readability (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) is just about the coolest web application I’ve encountered since …the invention of web applications. Blissfully simple. Minimalist. Zen-like, in fact. A brilliant solution to all the flashing, the banners, the pop-ups, the ads, all the annoying visual litter that infests so many websites. It [...]

Did you say New Media?

For the latest on digital production software: click here What your Conservator doesn’t know about the underlying structure of the Mona Lisa (If you are in a shared office, it is recommended to turn up your speakers.) Damn. Some people have all the fun.

iPhone Apps for Photographers

My iPhone envy just reached new heights. For any of you in iPhone enabled countries (ahem!) who like gadgets for gadgets, have a look at this article about iPhone apps for photographers. It even mentions my old favorite, the level app. http://www.creativepro.com/article/iphone-apps-photographers

Teaching “Content Management” and adding up changes

One of the reasons that I post so seldom here is that oft-noticed problem of being over-extended. If you are going to MCN 2009 in Portland next month (and I hope you are), you’ll notice that I am involved in workshops on Cloud Computing, and a very special project of mine, “Project Management.” But, not [...]

Surfing the Wave

I thought about titling this post, “Getting Seasick,” but I think the Dramamine is starting to kick in. But be forewarned – getting involved with Google Wave at this stage is not for the faint of heart. If you’re concerned about all of your familiar actions and methodologies being turned on their heads, might be [...]