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The Sydney Observatory blog will turn 2 in June. It has been an enormous success for the Observatory with its traffic now accounting for at least half of all traffic to the Observatory website each months. Since its launch there have been 291 posts to date and 1073 filtered comments.
The Sydney Observatory blog is one [...]

If you missed any of the recent conference presentations in Australia, the Powerhouse’s web technologies, strategy and expertise will be discussed/dissected/analysed at the following (public) events.
On Saturday December 1 at Focus Fest 2007 Agent Provocateurs I will be presenting under the theme ‘Provoking a shift in the dialogue:
Art audiences, galleries and the web’ which will [...]

Folksonomies, mashups, data visualisation, UCD, usability, experimentation?
I am excited to announce that we have two developer jobs going here in the Powerhouse Museum Web Services Unit. We are looking to fill two roles, one working specifically on the Collections Australia Network (CAN) project, and the other on a new experimental project called About NSW.
Both roles [...]

We are very lucky to have within our museum a pair of media production labs - SoundHouse VectorLab - where the public can do short, low cost courses in video and music production. A spinoff of these facilities is a series of digital storytelling projects. Usually these projects are run in regional and rural communities [...]

One of our most successful, and earliest public facing blog experiments, Walking The Wall is almost over.
Even though the Great Wall of China exhibition moved on from PHM a while ago, our intrepid Great Wall walkers continued their trek, blogging as they went.
146 post and 630 comments later, they have finally finished their walk which [...]

Another long awaited change to our website has rolled out - a slightly updated front page and navigational redesign.
Obviously we are not in a position for a wholesale site redesign - something that is probably becoming a luxury these days - not just in terms of money but also in terms of user familiarisation. (Why [...]

‘What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog?’ has been a question that has been bouncing around for a few weeks.
Our Great Wall of China exhibition closed a few months ago and with it our Dragon & The Pearl blog. The dragon blog was always conceived of as an experiment [...]

Over on one of our other Powerhouse Museum blogs, Free Radicals interviews the makers of the interactive storytelling game World Without Oil.
Although short, the interview contains this -
FR: How do you suspect that the game nature of WWO will effect its ability to speak to the population at large?
Ken: Not very much. It’s a [...]