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…
As I mentioned in our last post, a review on the book The Weather Makers, Ideum has signed up with our electricity provider to receive 90% (the maximum) of our power from renewable wind. The Weather Makers points out that power plants, coal burning ones especially, contribute significantly to global warming. This was not news to us, as we’ve been involved in helping to stop the development of a coal burning power plant in Nevada. Here in New Mexico, we have…
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…
This week we were contacted by Governor Pataki’s office about using graphics Ideum developed with California Science Center for a major speech yesterday. The graphics were developed for an interactive exhibit called Alternative Fuels which is in California Science Center’s Transportation Gallery. The exhibit is one of four that we developed with the museum in 2004. Although personally we tend to gravitate to other side of the aisle, it is nice to see our graphics being used for a good cause.
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.
I just returned from Washington D.C. where I was involved in a series of meetings at the Association of Science-Technology Centers. In one of the meetings, I had an opportunity to meet David Herring from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He helps coordinate NASA’s Earth Observatory website. Launched in 1998, the Earth Observatory has been one of the best spots on the Internet for learning about our planet’s dynamic systems. The site is nominated (again) for a Webby Award as Best…
New proposed legislation that would abandon Network Neutrality could impact all of us. Learn how you can do your part to Save the Internet. Internet Freedom is under attack. Congress is pushing a law that would abandon Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Network neutrality prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you — based on what site pays them the most. Check out the site, learn more about the issue, see where…
