Well the cat is out of the bag and I’m one of the fifteen members of the Government 2.0 Taskforce! And I’m excited by the possibilities. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it down to Canberra for the launch at Publicsphere2 but I “watched it live on Twitter“. So what is the Taskforce doing? Its work falls [...]
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The (Australian) Govt 2.0 Taskforce – introduction and initial thoughts
June 26th, 2009 5 Comments
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1000th Tyrrell image in the Commons (1265 released in total)
June 4th, 2009 1 Comment
(Bayswater Rd, Darlinghurst, circa 1900) View Larger Map (Same location today-ish) Today we released 24 more images into our pool in the Commons on Flickr. That wouldn’t be such a milestone – we release more each week – but we’ve finally released the 1000th image from the Tyrrell photographic collection. We’ve now got 1,265 of [...]
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One year in the Commons on Flickr – statistics and . . . a book!
April 8th, 2009 4 Comments
Today we celebrate one year in the Commons on Flickr. Since April 8 last year we’ve uploaded 1,171 photos (382 geotagged) from four different archival photographic collections. These have been viewed 777,466 times! For photographs that had been either hidden away on our website (the original 270 Tyrrell photographs on our website were viewed around [...]
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Powerhouse collection documentation goes Creative Commons
April 2nd, 2009 8 Comments
We’re happy to announce that as of today all our online collection documentation is available under a mix of Creative Commons licenses. We’ve been considering this for a long time but the most recent driver was the Wikipedia Backstage tour. Collection records are now split into two main blocks of text. The first section is [...]
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Working with Wikipedia – Backstage Pass at the Powerhouse Museum
April 2nd, 2009 3 Comments
I like the notion that Noam Cohen raises in his recent New York Times article where Wikipedia is compared to a city. It is this sidewalk-like transparency and collective responsibility that makes Wikipedia as accurate as it is. The greater the foot traffic, the safer the neighbourhood. Thus, oddly enough, the more popular, even controversial, [...]
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Attempts at quantifying social behaviour in the Commons
February 22nd, 2009 Comments Off
Over at the fantastic Indicommons blog there has been a flurry of activity around generating data from the various collections in the Commons on Flickr. Patrick Peccatte initially posted on his blog a set of figures extracted using the Flickr API across the institutions in the Commons. Patrick has reworked these figures a little and [...]
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Community resilience – the emerging Commons community
January 8th, 2009 2 Comments
Courtney at the National Library of NZ beat me to it but as she writes, Flickr staff and Flickr users have visibly self-organised to grow the Commons on Flickr. There’s a new public Flickr Commons group on Flickr and today, a new Commons blog – Indicommons. These point of presence are acting as meeting places [...]
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Farewell George Oates
December 12th, 2008 11 Comments
Everyone here at the Powerhouse Museum was shocked today to hear that George Oates, the architect of the Commons on Flickr (and former designer behind Flickr), was laid off by Yahoo. Only last week was she presenting to our staff. George was the conceptual mind behind the Commons – her ideas, passion and drive to [...]
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Library of Congress report on their participation in the Commons on Flickr
December 11th, 2008 2 Comments
Michelle Springer, Beth Dulabahn, Phil Michel, Barbara Natanson, David Reser, David Woodward, and Helena Zinkham over at the Library of Congress have (publicly) released a very in-depth report on their experiences in the Commons on Flickr over a 10 month period. Titled “For the Common Good: The Library of Congress Flickr Pilot Project” it explores [...]
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Exploring Sydney streets – a composite video experiment with the Commons
December 5th, 2008 Comments Off
As we’ve been getting a lot of feedback on these here’s another of Jean-Francois Lanzarone’s video montages composed from detail in our glass plate negatives uploaded to the Commons on Flickr. This is the first one he has finished made up of multiple source images. Again, this is a simple digital storytelling with consumer-grade video [...]
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