A short post, and basically a rant. If I still sucked on the X-Pipe any more, I’d be doing it over there – but I don’t, so this the only space I’ve got to do some howling at the moon… Firstly, a disclaimer. As far as I can: I get it. Running a (retail/cafe/restaurant/pub/other seasonal) … Read more
As in any industry / sector right now, there is considerable discussion going on amongst museums about how best to think about AI – when to use it, when not to use it, what to worry about and more. Straight away I should state that asking something as crude as “should our museum use AI?” … Read more
At this years’ retreat – back at Gaia House – I had a …moment on the second day. On retreat, you have a lot of moments – startling realisations, mind blockages, things that you can’t mentally shift, things that you can. As ever, arrival was beautiful – back into the familiar hall, the sights and … Read more
We’ve been watching Steve Backshall’s Expedition recently – it’s good “not much brainpower” evening stuff, a sort of adult equivalent of Deadly 60 which we used to love watching with the kids when they were little. It’s good. But it – and I’ve noticed this a lot recently, particularly with documentaries – has caught the … Read more
A little over a year ago I wrote a brief thing about museums and oil sponsorship, and along the way I said this: And Twitter? Well, I’ve got a longer post to write about museums and social media in general (in short: social media is dying: museums should do less of it) but it does … Read more
So here we are – the start of what we all think is likely to be a terrifying new era as The Orange Twat takes possession of his presidential throne and starts throwing his weight around doing Stupid And Dangerous Things. The question is – what to do about it? As a concerned lefty UK … Read more
Creative lives are just inputs and outputs. You listen, watch, read, experience – that’s the inputs. Then you write, record, shape, create – that’s the outputs. The problem of course is that there are gazillions – we might as well call it infinite amounts – of inputs: endless blogs to be perused, films to be … Read more
Suggested agenda for our next book club meet-up:
There are many depressing things about this particular moment in history and there are many people writing about these depressing things in much more knowledgeable and eloquent ways than I would be able to. But I feel that as someone who owns a blog it is important to write something now about what is about … Read more
It’s been a choppy old couple of weeks in WordPress land. I’m not going to go back over the whole clusterfuck – there will be plenty of people writing about what went on – basically a massive spat between Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress) and mahoosive web host WP Engine. The row centres on a … Read more