I’m just back from presenting at the New Museum Lab event in Amsterdam run by the Nationaal Historisch Museum. My talk was titled ‘Digital Effects: Content, Communities and the Museum DNA’ and whilst I won’t be publishing the slides, one thing that seemed to be of interest to a lot of people was this simple [...]
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Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content
August 14th, 2009 5 Comments
Over on the Gov2 blog a comment was posted that asked for more information about our experience at the Powerhouse with ‘giving away content’ for free.
I’d be interested to know more about your experience with Flickr and your resulting sales increase. Are these print sales or licensing sales? And are they sales, through your in-house [...]
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Filippo Minelli ‘Contradictions’ and the Culturemondo 4th Roundtable
December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off
I’m about to head off to another Culturemondo Roundtable and the Wooster Collective posts a timely set of street art from Italian artist Filippo Minelli.
“Facebook”, spray paint on scrap-yard, Bamako – Mali, 2008
Minelli’s Contradictions series, as a short interview on Wooster explains, illuminates the techno-social environment where -
“users are pushed to live in an intense [...]
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Itay Talgam on collaboration as ‘conducting’
October 3rd, 2008 Comments Off
One of the most raved about and surprising sessions of the first day of Picnic08 was from Israeli conductor Itay Talgam.
Here is an interview done at Picnic08 with him in which he talks about how the way a conductor works provides a useful framework for considering the future of collaborative work and creativity. Talgam runs [...]
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Siva Vaidhyanathan on the ‘Generational Myth’
September 16th, 2008 1 Comment
In a new article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, former NYU professor and Copyright reform activist Siva Vaidhyanathan writes a provocative essay against the notion of ‘digital natives’ arguing the term and any idea of a ‘generational shift’ is ludicrous and masks the very real diversity in skills, knowledge and behaviours amongst users of [...]
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Bob Stein on ‘networked publishing’
September 10th, 2008 Comments Off
Bob Stein over at the Future of the Book has written some very engaging summative notions around the challenges and opportunities afforded by ‘networked publishing’.
Stein charts the move from the multimedia model of the late 80s through to the mid 90s where CDROMs and closed ‘interactive media’ opened up new opportunities for readers but preserved [...]
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Jace Clayton on afro-funk and digital preservation
September 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
One of favourite music and culture bloggers (and DJs), Jace Clayton has a lovely piece in Frieze which explores the issues around how collectors might trawl the digital music of today in forty years time. He starts out looking at the recent craze in African funk reissues – records recovered from master tapes buried in [...]
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Conversation, the Commons, museum futures, and ‘architectures of participation’
May 27th, 2008 Comments Off
This is a long and sprawling post and comes off the back of two weeks of presentations around the country and a lot of discussions about the ‘future of museums’. Perhaps find a comfortable chair and a hot beverage.
Checking my RSS feeds this morning I came across this piece from the Boston Globe which looks [...]
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David Bearman on the “the inside out museum” / geo-tagging and location-aware museum data- NDAP2008, Taipei
April 2nd, 2008 1 Comment
I’ve recently been in Taiwan visiting the National Digital Archives Project where they were holding a conference to examine ways forward for international collaboration with Taiwan’s incredibly rich array of digitised resources. The sheer volume of digitisation work that the Taiwanese have been doing is quite incredible.
Through many of the presentations there was an understanding [...]
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‘Intention’ – museums as information sources or ‘platforms’
March 10th, 2008 3 Comments
I’ve been talking a lot about ‘intention’ recently and it needs a bit of explanation.
In the commercial world of the web realisations are being made that not every ‘page view’ is equal and that advertising on social networks is not the cash cow that it was assumed it would be.
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