Interesting essay by Yochai Benkler from Yale Law Journal titled “Sharing Nicely: On shareable good and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production”. Benkler looks at carpooling, distributed computing (SETI@home, Folding@Home etc), open source etc and draws some interesting conclusions about the ways in which and motivations for sharing – and how [...]
Entries from March 28th, 2006
australian children’s television workshop – kahootz
March 27th, 2006 Comments Off
The australian children’s television workshop, already pretty famous with kids as the creators of round the twist, yolngu boy, lil elvis jones plus much more, are also producers of a clever and versatile piece of 3-D software for students and kids called kahootz. The philosophy behind Kahootz is to promote creativity, problem solving, and sharing [...]
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Wonder Wall software
March 27th, 2006 Comments Off
Michigan State University have started selling licenses form their nifty Wonder Wall software which uses Flash Communication Server, MySQL and PHP to create a lovely familiar and child-friendly interface for an online forum. This may be something to consider for the childrens’ microsite. Wonder Walls are a breath of relief from textual discussion boards, chat, [...]
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Other museum blogs
March 25th, 2006 Comments Off
Here’s a nice summary of other museums running blogs. We’re not on the list yet. But we will be.
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Museums & The Web – Best Of The Web 06 winners
March 25th, 2006 Comments Off
The winners at Museums & The Web 2006 have been announced. Congratulations to all, especially to our friends at the Australian Museum who picked up an honourable mention in the Best Research Site category for the Birds In Backyards site. There are MANY lessons to be learnt from the winning sites and I’d encourage everyone [...]
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Steve.museum update from M&W2006
March 24th, 2006 Comments Off
Read the latest about the collective museum folksonomy project, Steve.museum from Museums & The Web 06. Our Electronic Swatchbook projects gets a mention. Social tagging applications such as flickr and del.icio.us have become extremely popular. Their socially-focussed data collection strategies seem to have potential for museums struggling to make their collections more accessible and to [...]
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Lego Bionicle, power, language, meaning and the global ‘commons’
March 21st, 2006 1 Comment
Excellent, fascinating and thought provoking article, Rhetorical Virtues: Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web by Rosemary coombe and Andrew Herman which examines the particularly American libertarian values behind the current debates around co-creation and digital media. They look in detail at the Lego Bionicle controversy and the interaction between fan communities who [...]
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