Monthly Archives: February 2010

Feb 19

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Test Post

Just a quick test post using the new wordpress client for my Android phone.
This opens all kinds of new possibilities.

Feb 02

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PlateaKnit Results

As part of the PlateaKnit project, I threw out this instruction. I called it the “Newcurator Knitting Interlude”.
k1p2k1p3k2 p2k2p1k1p1 k1p3k1p3k1 p2k3p2k1p3 k1p1k1p1k1 p3k2p1k2p2 k4p1k1p3k1 p1k3p2k1p4 k1p3k2p1k1
K stands for Knit, P stands for Purl and the number after is the amount of times. This therefore translates into 0s and 1s. so the first five things work [...]

Feb 01

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Back Up

January has been a rather quiet month here at newcurator so there’s plenty to catch up on. Most of last week I had that wonderful seasonal sickness that turned simple thought processes into mammoth tasks.
Then, all of the bandwidth was used up. Bizarre really. Normally, each blog post brings in a predictable amount of traffic. [...]

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- Day Against DRM, May 4, 2010 | Musematic 2010/03/09
  “The Day Against DRM will unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software; indeed, all forms of digital data. Many DRM schemes monitor a user’s activities and report what they see to the corporations that impose the DRM.
- The Burke Museum Blog: Your local museum: coming to a pub near you? 2010/03/09
  It’s been six months since the first “Burke Museum Trivia Night” at the College Inn Pub and so far it has proven to be a great way to connect the museum to new audiences and inspire a sense of excitement about the natural and cultural world amongst the people who come to the bar to play trivia.
- Contest-Making the Case for Preservation Action to Save Collections | Musematic 2010/02/27
  Here’s how the contest will work:
  1. Select one target audiences (i.e. decision makers; general audience; and/or library/archive/museum staff) to persuade with a 2-minute speech to support preservation and take preservation action. Selection multiple target audiences, one 2 minute speech per audience.
  
  2. Write a short, compelling, and easy-to-understand argument that will persuade your target audience. Send in one 2 minute speech per target audience
- Boston getting a pop-up design museum, founded by designers - Core77 2010/02/27
  Most museums are founded by wealthy philanthropists, and you'd be hard-pressed to find one founded by designers; the amount of capital required to erect or purchase a building and subsequently fill it is simply beyond the reach of most of us Pantone-pushers.
  
  But that's not stopping product designers Sam Aquillano and Derek Cascio, two Massachusetts-based guys who work for Bose and Philips, respectively. Driven by love for their home state, the pair are planning a sort of pop-up version of a museum pushing Massachusetts-based design:
- Museum 2.0: Responsiveness is the Most Important Part of Participation 2010/02/27
  When it comes to visitor participation in cultural institutions, staff focus too much on #1 and not enough on #2. There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and... nothing happens.
  
  Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. But without responsiveness, you have a broken feedback loop. The response is what makes participation useful and meaningful to future users, including participants themselves.