The Sydney Observatory blog will turn 2 in June. It has been an enormous success for the Observatory with its traffic now accounting for at least half of all traffic to the Observatory website each months. Since its launch there have been 291 posts to date and 1073 filtered comments. The Sydney Observatory blog is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Powerhouse Museum websites'
Sydney Observatory blog – lessons from the first 2 years, an interview with Nick Lomb
March 24th, 2008 Comments Off
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Upcoming talks and presentations (November/December)
October 27th, 2007 Comments Off
If you missed any of the recent conference presentations in Australia, the Powerhouse’s web technologies, strategy and expertise will be discussed/dissected/analysed at the following (public) events. On Saturday December 1 at Focus Fest 2007 Agent Provocateurs I will be presenting under the theme ‘Provoking a shift in the dialogue: Art audiences, galleries and the web’ [...]
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Great Wall museum bloggers reach their goal!
July 11th, 2007 Comments Off
One of our most successful, and earliest public facing blog experiments, Walking The Wall is almost over. Even though the Great Wall of China exhibition moved on from PHM a while ago, our intrepid Great Wall walkers continued their trek, blogging as they went. 146 post and 630 comments later, they have finally finished their [...]
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New Powerhouse front page
July 11th, 2007 4 Comments
Another long awaited change to our website has rolled out – a slightly updated front page and navigational redesign. Obviously we are not in a position for a wholesale site redesign – something that is probably becoming a luxury these days – not just in terms of money but also in terms of user familiarisation. [...]
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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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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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Checking US Copyright Renewals
May 13th, 2005 Comments Off
If you need to check the Copyright status of an American book published 1923-1976 then you should use this resource
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Australian Fair Use Discussion Paper
May 6th, 2005 Comments Off
The Attorney General’s Dept has posted a discussion paper on the implementation of ‘fair use’ in Australia post DMCA/FTA. Read it here
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Broadband Reality
May 5th, 2005 Comments Off
Broadband uptake is still woeful. From Whirlpool – “OptusNet announced today that its subscriber base has passed the 350,000 mark after adding 63,000 subscribers in the last three months. Optus Consumer MD Allen Lew attributed the growth to the bundling of Optus landline, mobile and ADSL products. The company’s success “stems from the increasing strength [...]
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