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Monday Musing: Data Epiphanies
Today’s musing is sparked by an article in Forbes about a taxi company in Stockholm that devised a brilliant way to link the data generated by all its rides with other geospatial data to create “Taxi Trails”: an app that … -
Futurist Friday: The Internet of Infants
Sproutling is offering new parents some peace of mind in trade for their baby’s personal data. Welcome to the Internet of Infants. This hits so many trend buttons, including how: The Internet of Things is enabling us to amass Big … -
Keeping up with the 2014 Trends: Big Data
This is the second midyear update on the CFM report TrendsWatch 2014. Last week I week I reviewed recent developments related to “For-profit For Good”—the rise of social entrepreneurs. This week I take a look at the last six months of news … -
Looking Through the (Google) Glass
So, you may have seen me looking like this, lately. Yup, that’s Google Glass. And that’s me trying not to be a Glasshole. Neil Stimler, Digital Asset Specialist at the Met, has been sporting Glass for over a year and sharing his … -
Monday Musing: Paying the Rent(al)
You may have noticed I snuck in an extra post on the Blog today, encouraging you to start as soon as possible on session proposals for the 2015 AAM meeting in Atlanta. Now back to the (semi)regularly scheduled Monday Musing with a 15 … -
Instigating Social Justice Sessions for AAM 2015
David Fleming, director of the National Museums Liverpool laid the groundwork for the next AAM annual meeting in his “Big Ideas” session at the conference last spring: “when I use the term “social justice,” he said, “I mean two things: … -
Bringing a Collections Catalogue to Life
When the Walker Art Center launched their redesigned website in 2011, it was hailed as a “game-changer,” changing the focus of the site from the museum as destination to the museum as content provider—a portal to all things related to its … -
Keeping up with the 2014 Trends: For Profit For Good
It’s been about 6 months since the Alliance released TrendsWatch 2014, so I’m going to blog a round of updates on each of this year’s six trends. In each of these posts I will recap the trend, report on its overall arc in the first half of … -
Futurist Friday: Lend Me an Extra…Limb?
One subset of robotics pertains to cyborgs: “cybernetic organisms” that have both organic and biomechanical parts. The artificial limbs that enabled Oscar Pistorius to leap from the Paralympics to able-bodied international … -
Unaccompanied Children at our Borders: Can Museums Help?
The theme of the Alliance 2015 conference is Museums and Social Value. Leading up to that meeting in Atlanta, CFM will be hosting a number of guest bloggers addressing various aspects of museums and social justice. Last month, Robert …
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