About MuseumBlogs.org
MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of museum and museum-related blogs as well as a space for re-postings and roundups. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness and increase the authority of blogs focusing on museum issues. Authority is used by search engines to filter results. The more links, the more authority and more visible a blog will become.
The Directory
A publicly editable, moderated directory provides a central website for listings to museum and museum-related blogs.
The Blog
We encourage re-posting from qualified blogs and bloggers. The aim of MuseumBlogs.org is to drive visitors to other museum blogs and increase their authority. If you're interested in re-posting or creating roundups which focus on the museum blog world, please feel free to contact us for password and log in information.
Who and Why?
This site was developed by Ideum. We're a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for museums. The idea for MuseumBlogs.org came about after we developed a survey of museum blogs & community sites in March of 2006. One of the major outcomes was that the vast majority of museum blogs lack authority which was covered in a follow up post on the Ideum blog. It's our hope that MuseumBlogs.org will help increase communities’ awareness and authority.
Policies
MuseumBlogs.org is run as a public service and encourages community participation. The site does not accept commercial advertising of any kind.
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June 1st, 2006 by Jim Spadaccini
A few months back when there was a flurry of activity around blog carnivals and other ways to increase our authority, a suggestion was made to automate short blurbs for blogs and create links back to them by combining RSS feeds. In a post on Ideum blog, I took a look at FeedRinse, RSS Mix, and other sites that manipulate feeds.
That said, we’ve decided to move forward with this idea. We’re in the process of developing a centralized listing of new postings from all the blogs in our blog Directory by taking a portion of each new post from their RSS feeds, saying where it’s from, who authored it, and providing a link back to original post. We’ve begun experimenting with this–so you may see some unusual activity on the site over the next couple of days.
As we mentioned in the Welcome post, we’re not quite sure where all will lead, but that’s what makes it interesting. We’re going to run into issues of non-standard RSS feeds, filtering and like, but it seems like it might help do what this site was meant to do - raise awareness and the authority of museum blogs.
We’d appreciate any thoughts or comments you might have about this.
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