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

I just came across www.museumlab.org. In fact, now I look at the picture of one of the editors, I’m pretty sure we met at Mweb…will have to dig out my cards. Actually, that reminds me of an idea I had once about business card cataloguing. Strikes me that you spend conferences having interesting conversations with … Read more

So. Back from the annual Museums and the Web conference, having spent a week chewing the e-cud with a bunch of like (and not so like) minded people. Saw lots of interesting talks, but as usual the time spent just hanging out with others is the bit which really gets the juices flowing. But there … Read more

Mild hangover. Couldn’t get to the demos – woke late and then had some emails and other stuff to do. But got down in time to see Silvia talking about bookmarking. Very interesting stuff – lots of people trying various things, and obviously of great interest to me with my mobile bookmarking site stufflinker. She … Read more

So. Day 2. Still on UK time, but the coffee seemed to help.. This morning we did a Birds of a Feather breakfast. I’ll admit I’ve never actually managed to get to one of these before but, hey, I’d been up since about 5 so what the hell.. We set up a table on museums and … Read more