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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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.

Museum Blog Round Up: 3

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…

A Better Online Community Through Membership

A List Apart recently published this intersting article, Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters, on the importance of user identity in an online community. The article surveys various methodologies from total anonymity to robust mebership systems. John M. Grohol, the author, ends the discussion with six recommendations on how to create a better community through memership. This was a very timely read for me, because we are in the beginning stages of designing an online community for a project we’re working on.

RSS Feeds

It seems more and more the projects that we’re involved in, involve RSS. For those you not familiar take a look at What is RSS and Why Should I Care, a very straight-forward article on Search Engine Watch. First off, RSS feeds continue to multiply: RSS Feeds.com has about 120,000 listed which Feedburner claims over 250,000, but since nearly every blog has an associated RSS feed (or multiple ones), there are literally tens-of-millions of feeds (Technorati claims it has over…

Windows XP on a Mac

Just last week Apple celebrated its 30th anniversary. I’ve been an avid user since the days of the Apple IIe and I’ve worked my way through dozens of Apple computers, including an Outbound, Apple notebook clone! (The makers were sued by Apple and put out of business.) Marking the anniversary, a friend sent along a couple of quizzes which test your Apple knowledge: Apple@30 trivia (hard) and How much do you know about Apple (easy). Since the Apple began shipping computers…

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.

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