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Punking about Museums
The recent “museum blogger” day on Twitter yielded a wealth of recommendations on who to follow on the blogosphere for great content in and around the museum sector. (You can retrieve those recommendations by doing a Twitter search on … -
Monday Musing: All the World’s a Museum
Due to a technical glitch last week’s Dispatches from the Future of Museums is coming out later today. When it does appear in your in-box, take a look at this article: Dubai To Add Art Museums In Metro Stations Gulf Business reports … -
Futurist Friday: Kamermaker (House Printer)
Technology is disrupting traditional industries left, right and sideways. This week’s Futurist Friday assignment asks: how could digital fabrication disrupt the way we design and build cities? The inventors of Kamermaker (House … -
Throwback Thursday: TrendsWatches Past
As we have just released TrendsWatch 2014, the obvious candidates for this week’s Throwback are the posts in which I introduced the first two editions of the report. I hope you use this opportunity to become acquainted with or … -
Throwback Thursday: Respite, Retreat…and Privacy
In TrendsWatch 2013, we covered the rising dissatisfaction with our always-connected, hyper-digital world, giving birth to a movement dubbed “digital detox.” Now, as documented in TrendsWatch 2013, this desire for respite and … -
TrendsWatch 2014
Third time is charming, right? Hope so, as I’m very pleased to share with you CFM’s third annual forecasting report—TrendsWatch 2014. After posting printed headlines from a year’s worth of stories from Dispatches from the Future of Museums … -
Monday Musing: reinventing the “library”
In case this is your first Monday visit to the Blog–“Musings” are my place to share brief, off-the-cuff thoughts about something I have read recently. I set the stopwatch for 15 minutes & jot down a summary of an … -
Futurist Friday: Virtual Reality & the Museum of the Future
The immersive virtual museum experience (at least the visual dimension) is creeping closer and closer. Your Futurist Friday assignment: this 2 min video by Europeana, using Oculus’ head-mounted display to tour a 3D model of the … -
Throwback Thursday: When Your Collection has More Twitter Followers Than You Do
Today I reprise one of my all-time favorite posts. Working at the Alliance gives me the opportunity to interview all sorts of interesting folk–Neil deGrasse Tyson, Rob Walker–rock stars all! But none are dearer to my heart than … -
Teaching Economics at the Museum
Sometimes I read a news item so great I have to track down the person at the heart of the story, and beg for more details. Here’s an example: an article on Magnapubs entitled Museum Exhibits and Macroeconomics? In it, professor Satarupa …
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