Author Archive for Jim Spadaccini

New Nasa rules?

We’ve been following the Bush Administration’s alleged attempts to censor NASA scientists and research findings for the last couple of months. Today, we learn that NASA has unveiled new rules on the release of agency information. The Washington Post has an article, NASA Sets New Rules On Media. They state… NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin unveiled new rules yesterday that govern the release of agency information to news media and the public, his most detailed response yet to embarrassing allegations that NASA’s public…

Ideum Fiesta

Ideum Fiesta

On Saturday we had a huge fiesta at the Ideum Studio. It was the last day of the Museums and the Web Conference and we invited all attendees and our friends to…

Nevada coal plant stopped! (For now?)

Just last year we designed the Website for the Nevada Clean Energy Coalition. Today’s Reno Gazette-Journal is reporting Sempra to sell interest in Nevada power project. This development was not completely unexpected as we posted a story that Sempra Energy had halted its federally required environmental study earlier in the month. Sempra is selling the development rights which means another company could step in and continue development. The company spokesman Art Larson… “We are selling development rights to Granite Fox and for…

Museum Blog Round Up: 2

Out of discussions we all had at Museums and the Web, The Walker’s New Media Initiatives Blog is asking So what is a “blog carnival”? Along those same lines Mario Bucolo Museums Blog is trying to organize a meet up in AAM Boston. In other blogs…The Pulitzer blog at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis provides a tour of their Underbelly. Hangingtogether.org has posted on the Metropolitan’s Scholars’ License this is second time we’ve heard about STEVE in a week.

The “e word”

If anyone doubts that there is a “War on Science” in the United States just read The Missing Link article from the Arkansas Times. A teacher at a “science education institution that serves several Arkansas public school districts” explained to the author of the article… Teachers at his facility are forbidden to use the ‘e-word’? (evolution) with the kids. They are permitted to use the word ‘adaptation’? but only to refer to a current characteristic of an organism, not as a product of evolutionary…

Museums and the Web

A very busy week as we are facilitating, presenting, exhibiting, and soon will be partying at the Museums and the Web Conference. A few quick things to report. Museums and the Web has its own community site and participants are posting images to Flickr. Also, the Walker Art Center’s New Media Initiative Blog is covering a number of the sessions. Podcasting and blogging seem to be the big topics this year and I have had several very…

Museum Vodcasting

Here at Ideum we’ve been video podcasting since Apple released the video capable iPod last fall. We podcast a series of short videos we developed for NASA as part of the Traditions of the Sun site. In addition, we encoded a promotional video developed by the Museum of the African Diaspora, back when we redesigned their site late last year. Just this week, we created a podcast for the Tech Museum of Innovation. We’ve been working with them on the Understanding…

ReWriting the Science

Last night 60 Minutes aired a piece entitled, “ReWriting the Science” about NASA scientist Jim Hansen and the efforts of the Bush administration to silence him. I posted about this story back in January and February with links to articles in the New York Times and Washington Post. Ironically, all of the attention has helped Dr. Hansen get the word out that Climate Change is ‘real’ and that human activity is the likely culprit… “There’s no doubt about that,” says Hansen. “The…

Museum Blog Round up

The New Media Initiatives Blog at the Walker has posted their set of guidelines for blog authors. Essential reading for those museums considering jumping into the blogosphere. elearnspace has the latest on Web 2.0 a New Wave of Innovation for Teaching Learning an article in EDUCAUSE REVIEW. The Museum People’s Journal cites an article an article from the Chicagoist: Museum’s Aren’t Attracting Diverse Crowds. (No permalinks, so I linked directly to the article.) Assembly Looks at the Museum…

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