Over at 1up there is a good article on the very first video games. A lovely addition are the hand concept sketches for Pong which are at the end of the article. In 1967, a bold engineer with a vision led a small team to create the world’s first electronic games to use an ordinary [...]
Entries from May 16th, 2007
Pew Internet’s typology of ICT users and the need to map these against museum audiences
May 13th, 2007 Comments Off
The latest long form Pew Internet report came out about a week ago. It is a long read. This one breaks down ICT users into ten categories in a similar way to the Social Technographics report from Foresters I blogged about recently. Again this report reinforces the view that change in the mainstream for social [...]
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Visualising your social network
May 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Fidg’t’s Visualiser built using Processing is so cool even in its current early form. What it does is show the relationship of your ‘friends’ to particular tags and maps their ‘proximity’. From there you can browse content which is all pulled in via feeds. What is even cooler is that you don’t even need to [...]
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What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog? The end of Dragon & the Pearl
May 13th, 2007 Comments Off
‘What to do when it comes time to retire a museum blog?’ has been a question that has been bouncing around for a few weeks. Our Great Wall of China exhibition closed a few months ago and with it our Dragon & The Pearl blog. The dragon blog was always conceived of as an experiment [...]
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A practical model for analyzing long tails / Kalevi Kilkki in First Monday
May 10th, 2007 Comments Off
Kalevi Kilkki from Nokia writes an interesting essay titled A practical model for analyzing long tails over at First Monday. For those anaysing how visitors dig into their websites, use their collections, this is useful reading. This essay offers a dozen of examples of phenomenon, from books to square kilometers, that manifest themselves with a [...]
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The new Google Analytics
May 9th, 2007 15 Comments
Avinash Kaushik writes a very detailed post about the new-look Google Analytics that is rolling out across accounts right now. Now, more than ever web analytics are essential. In my experience, web analytics at museums have been the last thing on people’s busy timetables. Most organisations report the most basic level of statistics to their [...]
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Exhibit Files – social networking for museums pros?
May 6th, 2007 5 Comments
Exhibit Files is a community site for museum professionals to post their exhibition development case studies and or others to comment and review exhibitions. Whilst developed specifically for the ATSC, Exhibit Files has wide application for history and art museums as well. At one level Exhibit Files operates as a repository of information about exhibitions [...]
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Free Radicals interviews World Without Oil
May 4th, 2007 Comments Off
Over on one of our other Powerhouse Museum blogs, Free Radicals interviews the makers of the interactive storytelling game World Without Oil. Although short, the interview contains this – FR: How do you suspect that the game nature of WWO will effect its ability to speak to the population at large? Ken: Not very much. [...]
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