Love this. (via Get Some Perspective :: Marcia Conner)
When Museums Go Digital
A piece I recently wrote for Undercurrent’s weekly Dispatch.
Stop thinking of yourself as a building. The meaning you create extends far beyond the walls of your physical space. Instead, start to think of yourself as a service - an enabler of connections between the patron and your area of cultural expertise.
The rest is posted here, for your nerding pleasure.
Yosemite HD (by Project Yosemite)
Whoa. People who live in cities need to remind themselves every so often of what’s going on, each and every second, outside of them.
A well-organized, well-funded, well-connected, well-experienced lobbying effort on Capitol Hill was outflanked by an ad-hoc group of rank amateurs, most of whom were operating independent of one another and on their spare time. Regardless where you stand on the issue — and effective copyright protection is an important issue — this is very good news for the future of civic engagement.
Scottie. (Taken with instagram)
It means looking prospective employees in the eyes and convincing them to leave safe jobs, quit everything and throw their lot in with you. It means having pundits in the press and blogs who’ve never built anything criticize you and armchair quarterback your every mistake. It means lying awake at night worrying about running out of cash and having a constant knot in your stomach during the day fearing you’ll disappoint the few people who believed in you and validate your smug doubters.
Fishing through photos. This is why I love biking to work. (Taken with instagram)
