Creative Spaces does. No poking, no sheep throwing, no nonsense. The two posts below and the several comments are enough to set out the different views of Creative Spaces, or the National Museums Online Learning Project. I am not going to respond to the various criticisms leveled at the project as they do a good [...]
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Digital Britain and Collections
What role has Culture (capital C) in Digital Britain? And within Culture, what do digitised collections and content mean to the nation? Perhaps more importantly for the sectors involved in cultural provision (such as museums), can digital collections take part in the Digital Economy in a meaningful way? In January 2009, the UK Government produced [...]
Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
[UPDATE] John Battelle has posted an interview with Michael Wesch, who has agreed to answer questions in the blog’s comments section. Tony Gill on the Museums Computer Group email list, pointed out a video that covers the major issues that come under the ‘Web 2.0′ umbrella. It puts a lot of today’s issues in context [...]
Life without TV
In February 2006, when Tehmina and I moved to Salisbury, we made another big decision: as well as the big move, we would ditch our television too. It didn’t take long to get used to life without it. The most common question people seem to ask me is “what do you do instead?”. It’s an [...]
Google Page Creator: WYSIWYG websites from Google
Today, Google released the “Google Page Creator“, a simple way of creating small websites with a yourname.googlepages.com URI. There are a number of templates you can choose from, which you can change on a whim, and basic styling tools when you’re editing or creating pages. You can opt for one, two or three column versions [...]
PodcastConUK 2005
Podcasting is a phenomenon which is still, technically, in its infancy. The release of iTunes 4.9 in July gave podcasting a huge boost, putting the tools to subscribe to ‘casts straight into the hands of anyone and everyone. The quality of podcasts out there varies tremendously. More and more people are learning how to create [...]
Flickr
Stonehenge, Summer Solstice 2004 Originally uploaded by chough. I have known about Flickr for some years now, and have finally decided to take the plunge and sign up for an account. It’s a marvellous system – really well thought out; intuitive and easy to use. I am very impressed by the RSS feeds, and the [...]
Blogging the London bombings
As news of yesterday’s bombings in London came through, the BBC News website slowly ground to a halt as millions of people logged on to see what was happening. I decided to follow the events through the day via the blogging community, and it gave a great ‘bottom-up’ view of the happenings, often half an [...]
