@JT – As I’m sure you know, I’m absolutely no stranger to the challenges that institutions put in the way of big projects like this. I blog about it all the time, I spent seven years inside a museum, and yes, as you say – I’m now on the outside, looking in. I’m also under zero illusion that the technology actually has anything to do with it.

Remember also that I’ve been the one launching stuff to MCG, seeing blog posts and newspaper articles having a go at our efforts, and I fully – fully – understand the passion and frustration that accompanies these projects. I also know only too well that the copyright issues are moving on (albeit VERY slowly..). And please, please don’t think that I’m questioning the passion of people like you and many others who are approaching these big questions from many different angles. If my comment implied that, that wasn’t the intention. I know these questions are being asked.

But. But. But…I’m passionate, too – and the way I express this is the way I am. I’m simply not the one to write a moderate and considered evaluation of a particular approach if I feel that the approach is deeply flawed. That’s not what Electronic Museum is about, and never has been. Much as I don’t want to suck up too much of anyone’s attention, these things have a momentum all of their own, and that momentum is entirely out of my – or anyone’s – control.

At the end of the day, I don’t think the post is offensive (bar the profanities, which I rapidly edited out, and have apologised for). It’s how I feel, and I think it’s important.