I’m going to spend 10 minutes on the 13th November being interesting. About Lego. On the same day, dozens of other people are also going to be interesting, about topics as diverse as sidesaddle riding, feral children, American baseball scorekeeping and cake. This isn’t just a random occurrence, it’s part of an event called Interesting North, [...]
If you couldn’t tell from my Twitter feed, two weeks ago I was at a conference in Indianapolis, USA, called ‘Museums and the Web 2009‘. As the name suggests, this is an annual shindig, and as it happens, I also went to the previous conference, aptly enough titled ‘Museums and the Web 2008‘. One key [...]
I’m pleased to announce that I’m going to be leading a half-day workshop at next year’s Museums and the Web 2009 conference, which will be focused on ‘interaction design’ for museum websites. By ‘interaction design’, I mean the practice of planning which ‘social features’ should be added to a museum website, and how these should [...]
This week I attended the UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008 in Leicester. Like last year, I also attended the ‘mashed museum’ mashup day the day before the conference. It’s not nearly as big or glamourous as the BBC’s Mashed, taking place this weekend, but it’s an important and useful step forward for the [...]
I arrived back in the UK yesterday from Canada, after attending the Museums and the Web 2008 conference. After a day of sleeping off the jet-lag and generally being a bit confused, I realised this morning that I forgot to fill in my feedback form (despite several pleas from the conference organisers in the closing [...]