Today’s Links

• NeuroLitCrit | Blog | Futurismic
  The [MRI] scans produced will measure blood flow to the firing synapses of their brain cells, allowing a united team of scientists and literature professors to study how and why human beings respond to complex fiction such as the works of Marcel Proust, Henry James or Virginia Woolf.
• Future Vision – From the mind of Robert Rice
  The Decade of Ubiquity is defined as the next ten years where every aspect of our lives will be permeated by digital, mobile, media, data, information, augmented, virtual, and so forth. It will be everywhere and accessible almost instantly. Everything will be connected, labled, monitored, tracked, tagged, and interactive to some degree or another.
• Museum 2.0: Should Everyone Work on the Front Line as Part of their Career?
  Graduate students try to get entry level jobs that involve desks, not aprons. And senior professionals are not encouraged to waste their time talking to visitors in the lobby. While many museums are starting to institute weekly or monthly "floor time" requirements to help all staff become more connected to visitors, these policies are the exception, not the norm.
• The Editor and the Curator (Or the Context Analyst and the Media Synesthete) | Tomorrow Museum
  So why are these companies hiring curators in name only, rather than requesting real curatorial duties? If all you want is someone to list what is good and what is not good, you might as well call the job “office Nick Hornby.” Not to mention, identifying trends, context, and environment is something a writer should always be doing.
• 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist
  This is such a good article until Number 6. This could have been a like-for-like description of "Tomorrow's Curator" until it put curator and blogger *beneath* journalist.
• Marc Sands takes Tate role | Media | guardian.co.uk
  He will be responsible for developing Tate Media, the organisation's drive to develop the brand across online, broadcast and social media, to "strengthen Tate's relationships with audiences and build social networks for the organisation". ***MARC, CALL ME!***
• Museos Unite: Solutions Series 2: The Offsite Museum Bar
  From there I thought – what if museums owned offsite bars? I say offsite because I have been to events at museums where people are drinking. I have seen a woman so drunk she actually reached out and TOUCHED A PICASSO. Seriously. Not good, my friends. Also, the overhead costs of keeping a museum open (electricity, security, heating, whatever) are astronomical. Not to mention the insurance risk!
• Getty Museum’s Open Call for "Inspiring Leaders": Director Application Now Online! – CultureGrrl
  Research for my inevitable hiring as the Getty's director
• The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators
  To write about later. I'm going to have to tear a strip off this.
• Clarksons Box Creator Museum Box : Editor
  ***Why can't this link into my tumblr/twitter/delicious/etc. and make "museum boxes" of RSS data?***

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