Last week I was at the Horizon New Media Consortium 10 Year Retreat – The Future of Education. It was a fascinating glimpse into the world of bright-eyed educators and a few museum people who want the future of education to be something far better than it is now. If that sounds a little utopian, [...]
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Back to reality. Returning from the Horizon Retreat.
February 1st, 2012 2 Comments
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The museum website as a newspaper – an interview with Walker Art Center
December 3rd, 2011 14 Comments
There’s been a lot of talk following Koven Smith’s (Denver Art Museum) provocation in April – “what’s the use of the museum website?”. Part driven by the rapid uptake of mobile and part driven by the existential crisis brought on Koven, many in the community have been thinking about how to transform the digital presence [...]
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A new Powerhouse Walking Tours App and a Q&A with Glen Barnes
July 20th, 2011 No Comments
About a month ago our second walking tour App went live in the AppStore and was promptly featured by Apple leading to a rapid spike in downloads. The Powerhouse Museum Walking Tours App is a free download, unlike our Sydney Observatory App, and it comes pre-packaged with two tours of the suburbs surrounding the Museum [...]
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Three short links – quantified self
September 25th, 2010 No Comments
Here’s a few short and interesting things I’ve been playing with for a little while. Each of these revolves around the idea of documenting ones own behaviour by laying down data – Kevin Kelly’s notion of the ‘quantified self‘. I’m very interested in how this personal behavioural data can be used to better improve our [...]
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Museum implications of the Columbia report on metrics for digital journalism
September 21st, 2010 No Comments
Web analytics is a tricky game and often the different ways of measuring things confuse the very people they are there to help make better decisions. For the museum sector, analytics seems even more foreign, largely because we’ve never had a very good way of generating such huge amounts of quantitative data about our visitors [...]
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Why a touch interface matters
April 20th, 2010 4 Comments
A shorter, more folksy interlude post – the kind I used to do more of when this blog first started nearly 5 years ago (only a few more days until the blog turns 5!). Over dinner a few nights ago at Museums & the Web I was sitting with Kevin von Appen from the Ontario [...]
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Subject or photographer location? Changing contexts of geotagged images in AR applications
April 20th, 2010 2 Comments
If you’ve tried the Powerhouse Museum layer in Layar in the past few days on the streets of Sydney you may have noticed some odd quirks. Let’s say you are in Haymarket standing right here. You open Layar and it tells you that where you are standing is the location of the following image. Now [...]
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Five rules for museum content (via Amsterdam)
October 29th, 2009 4 Comments
I’m just back from presenting at the New Museum Lab event in Amsterdam run by the Nationaal Historisch Museum. My talk was titled ‘Digital Effects: Content, Communities and the Museum DNA’ and whilst I won’t be publishing the slides, one thing that seemed to be of interest to a lot of people was this simple [...]
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Some clarifications on our experience with ‘free’ content
August 14th, 2009 1 Comment
Over on the Gov2 blog a comment was posted that asked for more information about our experience at the Powerhouse with ‘giving away content’ for free. I’d be interested to know more about your experience with Flickr and your resulting sales increase. Are these print sales or licensing sales? And are they sales, through your [...]
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