@Nadia – absolutely. I guess my BHAG is to find ways to challenge the status quo. You’re 100% right, but why? And what can we do to change it? For starters, does stuff *have* to be as big as it is?

I’m particularly interested in this at the moment as I’ve just co-authored a paper for the 2009 Museums and the Web conference which challenges the institutional/big/bottom-up/juggernaut by suggesting a lightweight approach to something that has always traditionally been painful and big. I’ll blog about it when the paper has been published…

@DPEITCS – I’d like to think we can change it, probably by stealth and maybe by embarrassing the funders by demonstrating that small (and usually is) more beautiful than big… Shame you’re off out. This is gonna be interesting 😉