Just quick note that the “AutoAggregator” is now operational on Museumblogs.org. This allows us to automatically important short summaries of postings from many of the sites in the directory. There are now 130 postings on the site. Check it out. Update (6-12-06): We now have 200 posts, but we’re still not bringing in all of the rss feeds. It is complicated, as we explain here.
The museum blogosphere continues to grow, it seems I hear about a new museum blog every week. Climate Change and the Bering Sea is written by Karen de Seve from Liberty Science Center who’s gathering footage for a upcoming exhibition. At the other end of the Earth, the Natural History Museum has an Antarctic conservation blog which has been posting since late summer (February 2006). Museum Blogging provides “news and insights into…
We’re happy to announce that museumblogs.org is up and running. Over the last couple of months, off and on, we’ve been working on putting the site together. The original idea came from our Survey of Museum Blogs, the follow Up, and numerous conversations and ideas that came out of the Museums and Web conference. (We posted some of those ideas here, the Walker’s New Media Initiatives Blog posted about it here with numerous comments.) The Welcome post on…
I just finished reading Tim Flannery’s excellent book, The Weather Makers. For those of you not familiar with Tim Flannery he’s a scientist, conservationist, a writer, and is the director of the South Australian Museum. A very busy guy. I read one of his earlier books, the Future Eaters, a number of years ago while in Australia and really enjoyed it. The Weather Makers outlines the history of climate change focusing on many high-profile weather events such as powerful hurricanes in the…
It’s been a little less than a month since our last Museum Blog Round Up and there’s a lot to report. First, the big news is that Musematic has joined the ever growing museum blogosphere. “An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM’s Media & Technology Committee” are posting on a variety of museum related topics. We’re a bit late in presenting this news, apparently they launched on the date of our last round up, April 13th.
Last week I was in Tucson, Arizona as part of the Astronomy from the Ground Up initiative. This NSF-sponsored project involves the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Association of Science-Technology Centers, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Ideum is working with all of the partners to help build an online community and create some online materials and experiences for informal educators. We spent part of the day Thursday trying out some outdoor astronomy activities at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
A friend pointed out an interesting post on Fresh + New about the Ontario Science Centre’s weekly podcasts on their Redshift Now site. The post explores the numbers (how many downloads) and where visitors are picking up episodes (iTunes and elsewhere). (I’ll try to see about collecting and sharing some of the number’s from our own Vodcasting efforts.) Fresh + New goes on to examine aggregation, and asks whether we should replace our manual efforts with some sort of an…
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.
Last week Museums on the Web Conference (MW) was held here in New Mexico right across the Rio Grande in downtown Albuquerque. We were glad for its proximity, because not only would we not have to travel far (really no travel at all), we were also able to invite the conferences attendees to celebrate our new studio in Corrales, New Mexico. It was very hectic in the studio in the weeks leading up to the conference — there was a lot of prep work…
