Museums hosting Meetups

I recently wrote on the subject of Museums and the communities they serve and, coincidentally, today, I found an extremely interesting article on this same subject on the excellent blog Museum 2.0.
This is a must read for cultural enterprises that would like to start taking steps in the social media arena.
From the article:
“If you get [...]

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If I was in Buenos Aires…

… this is where I would be going during the months of September and October. Alas, I’ll be gravitating between Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi during those weeks.
This is the type of event that can make me feel really homesick every now and then.

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The YouTube Screening Room

Last week YouTube unveiled a new channel, The Screening Room. I hadn’t had the chance to view any of the featured films so far, but that changed yesterday, when I finally got to spend considerable time checking them.
And what a wonderful concept this is! I first found out about it through Cool Hunting. Their review [...]

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Thoughts on Happiness

Just found a pretty odd event taking place in The Netherlands on the first week of November, the first Thoughts on Happiness Conference. I thought it was interesting that they will be exploring happiness both from scientific research and “daily life” perspectives covering topics like “Happiness in the workplace” or “An evolutionary approach to quality [...]

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Good vibrations? Certainly not Peter Conrad’s!

I know this is not an art critic’s blog, but this article at The Guardian upset me enough to have to comment on it.
In it, Peter Conrad sets to more or less smash the books of former collaborators and friends Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim. What bothers me is not that he dislikes the books. [...]

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Generational Theater

A post by Brian Eno on The Long Now blog on a tradition in the Bavarian town of Oberammergau, where the whole town (really, including children, youth, etc… everyone who lives there) participates in a theater play, The Passion since 1634.
Brian Eno asks:

“I kept returning to this thought: what would it do to a community [...]

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Museums and the communities they serve

Dave Pollard, at Salon blogs, writes about the 12 tools that might follow the way of the fax machine and the CD:

“Out of my research on this has come a list of tools, technologies and other artifacts of my generation that will probably disappear within the next generation, just as Fax essentially disappeared less than [...]

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Amsterdam events

There are a few events lined up in Amsterdam during the next few weeks/ months that might be valuable for anyone that is involved in new/ social media.

First, there is the IBC Conference and Exhibition, the world of content creation management delivery, to be held September 12th to 16th. This year’s highlighted topics are D-Cinema, [...]

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Joi Ito’s Freesouls

Joi Ito is working on a beautiful photography book to be licensed under Creative Commons.
There is also a Slideshare of the project, with some great photos.
(Note to self: must own this book when it comes out).

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Google Trends got an upgrade!

I have been using Google Trends for a while, mainly to keep an eye on the ups and downs of what people are searching for. It was a good indicator of how media stories could have an immediate impact in triggering interest on certain subjects. For those of us working on media related roles, such [...]

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