One of the things I love about my Flickr photostream are the intermittent gifts from my contacts. Fotoedge’s images regularly provide me with a beautifully textured and preserved Americana of the Mid-West. Whenever he uploads a new photo I am sure to spend some time thinking about the relationship between our state of mind [...]
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Intermittent presents of endurance and hope on Flickr
Published by July 16th, 2007 in museums. 1 CommentScrap: Making Propaganda Movies at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Published by February 16th, 2007 in video. 7 CommentsI was just talking with a colleague about the NMC’s Online Conference on Web Video, via Alan, and it reminded me of a quite cool project designed by Jim Spadacinni over at Ideum. The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology has a new virtual exhibit, the American Image, that features the work of John Collier Jr., [...]
Colonizing Social Sites: It’s Fun & It’s FREE!
Published by December 20th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 5 CommentsJim Spadacinni at Ideum recently posted on the potential of institutions -in this case museums- to colonize web 2.0 spaces (article link). He brings up a lot of excellent examples in his post. See his discussion of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s My Space profile and Ideum’s work-in-progress with the Maxwell [...]
During the New Web seminar at the University of Victoria, Jim Spadacinni talked a bit about the potential for museums to colonize popular social sites for both exposure and networking. Logic being, regardless of how much one may hate how a site like MySpace looks and feels -why not go where everybody is?
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The Powerhouse Museum: the Name Says it All
Published by November 16th, 2006 in WordPress. 5 CommentsThe New Web seminar at UVIC hosted another fascinating discussion today about integrating web 2.0 tools into the museum landscape with Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum (see this post for the highlights of our discussion with Kevin von Appen about the Ontario Science Center’s RedShift Now). The Powerhouse Museum is a Science [...]
The Ontario Science Center’s “RedShift Now”
Published by November 15th, 2006 in WordPress and video. 2 CommentsI have so much to blog about these days that I am a bit overwhelmed. After my mini-vacation in Portland, Oregon I headed up to the land of Northern Voices to attend a seminar dealing with “The New Web: Interactive and Collaborative Technologies for the Museum World” with Jim Spadacinni of Ideum fame. I have [...]
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