Ideas
ReadWriteWeb wrote a recent article called ‘I Don’t Know Much About Art But I Know What’s Online’, in which they reviewed the different online offerings of art museums, and concluded that there weren’t yet any stand-outs…
I’ve been thinking a bit about books lately. Partly because I’ve actually been starting to read them again (I tend to go through phases). I was musing through my bookshelves this evening, and decided to put all the hard backs on one shelf. Nearly all of my books are paperbacks (I’m one of those cheapskates [...]
I was down in London on Tuesday to give a presentation as part of a training & development day for museums and archives with the palindromic title of Engaging Users, Users Engaging, taking place at the London Metropolitan Archives (pictured below). London Metropolitan Archives – photo by mermaid99, CC license My role in the day [...]
I spend a lot of time in my new(ish) job at Rattle coming up with ideas, for both clients and ‘innovation’ competitions and funds like 4iP. It’s all pretty stimulating and rewarding stuff (especially when up against deadlines!), but the downside to this is that a lot of ideas you’ve spent quite a bit of [...]
I was in London on Monday for a mini-conference on ‘mobile learning’ for the museums & archives sector. My colleague James Boardwell was presenting, but I was just there to learn what other people were doing. One of the things that struck me was that when museums talk about ‘mobile learning’, what they tend to [...]
I’ve been thinking recently about visitor attractions – museums, theme parks, art galleries and so on – and the ways in which they can, either intentionally or not, create great photo opportunities which help to enhance the visitor experience. The link between photography and visitor attractions goes back almost as far as the invention of [...]
‘Lapland’ doesn’t have a very good name at the moment. Firstly, we have the revelation that it isn’t in Scandinavia at all, but can be found at various locations within the UK, simultaneously. On top of that, some of them aren’t even any good. In Dorest, Lapland New Forest was slated by visitors and the [...]
Like many people now, I tend to read a lot of news online (mostly BBC News and the Guardian), as well as reading the occasional newspaper (mostly the Independent or the Guardian). It goes without saying that the two forms are very different, and are read in different ways. Newspapers allow you to see lots [...]
I’ve recently learnt all about ‘pinging’ – the blogging tool that lets you let other blogs know when you make a post about them. This has got me wondering, wouldn’t it be good if BBCi News accepted pings? As the most popular online news site in Europe (if not the world), their news stories are [...]