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MuseoTech: The Arts Need Better Arguments (and these are...)
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. The Arts Need Better Arguments (and these are.). These are my immediate reactions to Greg Sandow's 2/19/2009 opinion piece. Which I posted originally on Facebook. Sandow's states his principle argument as:. So somebody proposed an alternative - cut funding for the symphony and ballet. The matter hasn't been resolved, but would you like to be the opera representative, arguing to keep your funds, with people from endangered clinics in the room? But back to Orwell. For Orwel...
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MuseoTech: April 2008
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Thursday, April 3, 2008. A Digital Needle in the Haystack: Finding the Good Stuff Online. Wikipedia does not publish original research (OR) or original thought. To the topic of the article, and that directly support the information as it is presented.". From Wikipedia's NOR article. Wikipedia, as an authority considered by a study published in Nature. As the above quote indicates, Wikipedia's chief weapon in this pursuit is reliance on citations to reliable sources. Taken in a museum context, this questi...
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MuseoTech: No Museum is an Island - Picking at the Safe Haven Fallacy
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Friday, October 10, 2008. No Museum is an Island - Picking at the Safe Haven Fallacy. Kurt Stuchell is interviewed here. About his proposed new social networking site for museums called Museum and Educational Social Network (MESN). As stated in the article, the intent is "to create and maintain a safe place for young people to socially interact with museums and professionals." It appears to be a return to the safe haven concept. About which more here. And better still, in Washington Post's Debate Decoder.
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MuseoTech: March 2009
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Monday, March 16, 2009. Social Media Resources/Collaboration Effort. I've been working with the Federal Web Managers Council on social media to produce a wiki with information of interest to the government and other organizations. Our charge is to pull together best practices and other resources for the benefit of government agencies. The members of the subcouncil are working hard to develop formal recommendations and guidelines for using these technologies for the Federal Web Managers Council.
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MuseoTech: February 2009
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Thursday, February 26, 2009. The Arts Need Better Arguments (and these are.). These are my immediate reactions to Greg Sandow's 2/19/2009 opinion piece. Which I posted originally on Facebook. Sandow's states his principle argument as:. So somebody proposed an alternative - cut funding for the symphony and ballet. The matter hasn't been resolved, but would you like to be the opera representative, arguing to keep your funds, with people from endangered clinics in the room? But back to Orwell. For Orwel...
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MuseoTech: The Future of Copyright (that will never, ever happen)
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Thursday, August 15, 2013. Where does the money for payments come from in this model? So there you have it. I don't argue that these changes would be any easier to perfect than proposed fixes to the DMCA or the PIPA/SOPA counterlegislation OPEN. However, I do believe that they would prove to be more robust and congruent with consumer (and creator) behavior. More extensive background and shoestring analysis can be found in those of my other essays to which I linked above. How is this fair to the creator?
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MuseoTech: Social Media Resources/Collaboration Effort
http://blog.museotech.net/2009/03/social-media-resourcescollaboration.html
Monday, March 16, 2009. Social Media Resources/Collaboration Effort. I've been working with the Federal Web Managers Council on social media to produce a wiki with information of interest to the government and other organizations. Our charge is to pull together best practices and other resources for the benefit of government agencies. The members of the subcouncil are working hard to develop formal recommendations and guidelines for using these technologies for the Federal Web Managers Council.
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MuseoTech: March 2008
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Friday, March 28, 2008. Federated Authentication: Creating Identity over the Web. I'm fairly certain that most of you have received an email that peaked your interest about a new Web service or application. It might be something that your bank is offering or perhaps a way to track your physical fitness routine online. So you visit the site. And what's the first thing you're asked to do? Create a unique user name and password. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is leading one such effort. Last fa...
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MuseoTech: April 2010
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Friday, April 9, 2010. Up next: Proposing a new paradigm for museums and libraries. That primarily considered the changing role of museums. In that essay, I concluded that museums (and arguably libraries as well) should:. 1 Be an authority:. Seek out authors and remain vigilant about properly attributing all sources;. Keep primary source material alive and digital so that it can be referenced;. Build semantic widgets to accurately and efficiently tag their "good stuff;". 2 Be a filter:. Independently, I ...
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MuseoTech: August 2008
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Monday, August 11, 2008. According to Matt Mason in The Pirate’s Dilemma. Okay, folks, get ready for a rather lengthy review of The Pirate’s Dilemma. Which considered problems of online plagiarism and provenance as well as the part from my 2/11/08 Kickoff to an odd-thoughts blog. A relevant paragraph of which could easily serve as the synopsis of The Pirate’s Dilemma. And this very post), to wit:. To channel Lawrence Lessig for a moment, why do we bother with it? Should we keep fiddling under the hood or...
