There’s a great post on innovation which I just found on my latest favourite museum blog, Museum 2.0. Seb Chan joins in the debate in the comments – essentially the same stuff which I started to touch on on my earlier post, only this time the question is about the dislocation between a (conservative) institution … Read more

Just spotted collectionX – a kind of collaborative, “upload some media, create an exhibition” type virtual space. Interesting, especially considering an idea that DanZ and I are working on… Keep watching…

Nat Torkington (!) removes some of the romance around free API’s over on O’Reilly Radar, and he’s got a point. I guess this is particularly – mostly – pertinent for businesses whose core offering is based on decentralised content, rather than for those (such as museums) who might want to share data as part of … Read more

I’ve been thinking a lot about innovation since the Mweb conference. In fact, now I focus on it as a concept, I think I’ve been thinking about what it means and how you do it for considerably longer – probably since I started dabbling in this whole technology thing. A lot has been written about … Read more

I stole the title (and actually the reason) for this post from a colleague who works with me at the Science Museum. He pointed out this Amazon page while we were chatting on gtalk. Check it out. Absolutely extraordinary, total, utter overload of, well, stuff. I don’t know if this is Amazon running some kind … Read more

I’m slightly embarrassed it’s taken me a month to get around to mentioning the launch of the beautiful new Science Museum website over on the Science Museum Dev blog, but I guess that says a lot about how much work there still is to do even when you get to the end of a long … Read more

Remember the Web2.0 video that went mainstream a while back – The Machine is us/ing us – a beautifully put together explanation of what it’s all about? Well apparently the guy who put it together – Professor Walsh (a cultural anthropologist, apparently..) was at the Web2.0 Expo, and explained the background to the video. It’s … Read more

Here’s a question. Has anyone done anything in the museum context with 2d barcodes, semacodes, phone barcode readers…? Nokia is piloting some stuff which is going to help the momentum – barcode readers are now standard on a few of their N series phones. Also Microsoft is sniffing around too. At one point there was … Read more

Nice post over on Mashable – Web Startups and the Lying Liars that Lie About Them – 10 “semi-truths” about new sites and the lies blog writers say about them. I particularly like #6: “it needs more work”. Truth: if there was a state before alpha, pre-alpha, and super pre-alpha, this site would be it. … Read more

In the spirit of just fooling around with some ideas (something I’m rather better at than real work), I’ve added a section called experiments as a place to start to capture some of the things I’ve built/half built/thought about building. There’s a whole load yet to go on but for now, have a look at … Read more